Past NUS DYOM!
This is a group study course on Distributed Systems based on the 6.824 course material
This website serves as a store for our discussion notes and/or questions that arise.
General Info/Notices
Our next session would be held on Tuesday 1-2 p.m., venue TBC.
This is a discussion session with Prof Seth, so please come prepared :)
Contributing
Check out the source branch for how you can contribute your notes to this repo :D
Schedule
Week 1 (13-19 Jan)
LEC 1: Introduction
Preparation: Read MapReduce (2004)
Assigned: Lab 1: MapReduce
LEC 2: RPC and Threads, Crawler, K/V
Preparation: Do Online Go tutorial (FAQ) (Question)
Week 3 (27 Jan - 2 Feb)
Teach Seth:
Sean
Jiaxiu
John
Shaowei
Remote Helpers:
LEC 4: Primary-Backup Replication
Preparation: Read Fault-Tolerant Virtual Machines (2010) (FAQ) (Question)
Week 4 (3-9 Feb)
LEC 5: Fault Tolerance: Raft
Preparation: Read Raft (extended) (2014), to end of Section 5 (FAQ) (Question)
Teach Seth:
Joel
Julius
Jolene
Jiaxiu
Remote Helpers:
Week 5 (10-16 Feb)
LEC 6: Fault Tolerance: Raft
Preparation: Read Raft (extended) (2014), Section 6 to end (FAQ) (Question)
LEC 7: Spinnaker
Preparation: Read Spinnaker (2011) (including Appendices) (FAQ) (Question)
Week 6(17-23 Feb)
LEC 8: Zookeeper
Preparation: Read ZooKeeper (2010) (FAQ) (Question)
Assigned: Lab 3: KV Raft
Teach Seth:
Joel
Arsalan
Yu Jia
Guo Wei
Remote Helpers:
Week 7 (2-8 Mar)
LEC 10: Distributed Transactions
Preparation: Read 6.033 Chapter 9, just 9.1.5, 9.1.6, 9.5.2, 9.5.3, 9.6.3 (FAQ) (Question)
LEC 11: Optimistic Concurrency Control
Preparation: Read FaRM (2015) (FAQ) (Question)
Week 8 (9-15 Mar)
LEC 12: Big Data: Spark
Preparation: Read Spark (2012) (FAQ) (Question)
Assigned: Lab 4: Sharded KV
Teach Seth:
Julius
Arsalan
Guo Wei
Yu Jia
Adam
Remote Helpers:
Week 9 (16-22 Mar)
LEC 13: Big Data: Naiad
Preparation: Read Naiad (2013) (FAQ) (Question)
LEC 14: Distributed Machine Learning: Parameter Server
Preparation: Read Parameter Server (2014) (FAQ) (Question)
Week 10 (23-29 Apr)
LEC 15: Cache Consistency: Frangipani
Preparation: Read Frangipani (FAQ) (Question)
Teach Seth:
John
Shaowei
Rahul
Donald
Adam
Remote Helpers:
Week 11 (30 Mar - 5 Apr)
LEC 16: Cache Consistency: Memcached at Facebook
Preparation: Read Memcached at Facebook (2013) (FAQ) (Question)
LEC 19: Peer-to-peer, DHTs
Preparation: Read Chord (2001) and Trackerless Bittorrent
Preparation: Read AnalogicFS experience paper (FAQ) (Question)
Week 12 (6-12 Apr)
LEC 20: Dynamo
Preparation: Read Dynamo (2007) (FAQ) (Question)
LEC 21: Peer-to-peer: Bitcoin
Week 13 (13-19 Apr)
No details.
Deadlines
| Date | Task |
|---|---|
| Week 1 (19 Jan) | Lab 1 |
| Week 2 (26 Jan) | Lab 2A |
| Week 3 (2 Feb) | Lab 2B |
| Week 4 (9 Feb) | Lab 2C |
| Week 5 (16 Feb) | Lab 3A |
| Recess (1 Mar) | Homework 1 |
| Week 8 (15 Mar) | Lab 3B |
| Week 10 (29 Mar) | Lab 4A |
| Week 12 (12 Apr) | Lab 4B |
| Week 13 (19 Apr) | Homework 2 |