Dynamo

Muddy Foreheads

Failure models

Remote Procedure Call (RPC)

Transition Systems

Primary/backup

Distributed Transition Systems

Virtual Clocks

Paxos

MultiPaxos

Leases

Consistency Models

Vector Clocks

Snapshots

Sharding

Two-phase commit

Microservices

Bigtable

Google File System (GFS)

Spanner

Bayou

IronFleet

Tapir

CSE 452 Distributed Systems University of Washington Winter 2022 This senior-level course offers deep insights into the construction of distributed systems like client-server computing, web, cloud computing, and peer-to-peer systems. Major topics include remote procedure call, error management, and consistency of distributed state. Noted for its intellectually challenging and career-relevant approach. Distributed systems are central to many aspects of how computers are used, from web applications to e-commerce to content distribution. This senior-level course will cover abstractions and implementation techniques for the construction of distributed systems, including client-server computing, the web, cloud computing, peer-to-peer systems, and distributed storage systems. Topics will include remote procedure call, preventing and finding errors in distributed programs, maintaining consistency of distributed state, fault tolerance, high availability, and scaling.

Alumni of this course say that it is among the most intellectually challenging courses that they have taken at UW, and among the most relevant to their future careers. We will attempt to live up to that recommendation. We believe the best way to learn the material is to implement the ideas presented in the course, and so there is a substantial programming project.

The [calendar page](https://courses.cs.washington.edu/courses/cse452/22wi/schedule) provides a detailed topic list for the course, including readings, problem sets, and labs. In addition, we are using Gitlab, Ed, and Gradescope for various parts of the course.   

CSE 452 Distributed Systems

Parallelism and Distributed Systems

System R

File system

Flash File Systems

Isolation Levels

Transactional Recovery

Practical Byzantine Fault Tolerance

Exokernel

Resource Allocation and Scheduling

Edge Computing

Distributed Storage

MapReduce

Column Stores

Microkernels

Spectre Attack

Unix

Databases

End-To-End Arguments in System Design

File System Reliability

Transaction Locking

Concurrency

The Byzantine Generals Problem

seL4

Virtual Machine (VM)

Peer To Peer Networks

Distributed Consensus

Apache Spark

Security

CryptDB

CS 262a Advanced Topics in Computer Systems UC Berkeley Fall 2021 A graduate survey of systems managing computation and information. Topics include volatile and persistent memory management, system support for networking, security infrastructure, extensible systems, APIs, and large software system performance analysis. Students are expected to engage in quality systems research, culminating in a publishable group project. Graduate survey of systems for managing computation and information, covering a breadth of topics: early systems; volatile memory management, including virtual memory and buffer management; persistent memory systems, including both file systems and transactional storage managers; storage metadata, physical vs. logical naming, schemas, process scheduling, threading and concurrency control; system support for networking, including remote procedure calls, transactional RPC, TCP, and active messages; security infrastructure; extensible systems and APIs; performance analysis and engineering of large software systems. Homework assignments, exam, and term paper or project required.

The main work of this class is to read frequently and deeply, while working toward a group research project of publishable quality.  Each student will be individually responsible for writing up a short summary of every paper. There will be one midterm exam (albeit near the end), and no final exam. Research projects are a critical aspect of the course.  Your goal is to do some quality systems research; that is, to add to our understanding of how to build systems.  Research projects must be written up in a term paper, and will be presented in a poster in a departmental mini-conference.  Suggested project ideas will be provided by the instructors, but you are strongly encouraged to come up with your own project ideas.  Potential projects include implementation or analysis of some piece of an OS, a DBMS, or an Internet service; extending one of these systems with new functionality; or measurement and analysis of existing systems with the goal of better understanding issues in system design.   [CS 162](https://cs162.org/), or equivalent. There is no required textbook, but some of the papers are in [*Readings in Database Systems*](http://redbook.cs.berkeley.edu/). We will read and discuss 2-4 papers per week. Likely all of the papers will be available online.

General information: ISBN-10: 0-262-69314-3, ISBN-13: 978-0-262-69314-1

Link to MIT press site: [Readings in Database Systems, 4th Edition](http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?tid=10480&ttype=2)

CS 262a Advanced Topics in Computer Systems

Computer Systems

Dynamo

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CSE 452 Distributed Systems

CS 262a Advanced Topics in Computer Systems