CS5414 (Fall 2010)
Distributed Computing Principles:
Overview and Organization

Course Overview and Organization.

Lecture times, teaching staff, office hours, prerequisites, assignments and grading policy.

Topic Outline.

High-level listing of topics to be covered along with recommended readings.

Assignments.

• Programming Project Phase I: A Distributed Bank (assigned 9/1; due 9/20)
• Programming Project Phase II: Bank-Balance Computation (assigned 9/22; due 10/18)
• Programming Project Phase III: Fault-tolerance Using Primary-Backup (assigned 10/18; due 11/10)
• Programming Project Phase IV: A Fault-tolerant Failure Detector (assigned 11/10; due 12/1)
• Homework 1: Logical Clocks Implementation (assigned 8/30; due 9/8)
• Homework 2: More on Causality and Clock Implementation (assigned 9/8; due 9/17)
• Homework 3: Snapshots in Synchronous Systems (assigned 9/20; due 9/29)

Announcements

• [12/16] Phase IV grades have been posted. Regrade requests must be submitted by email to fbs@cs.cornell.edu by 9am Dec 20, 2010. No late regrade requests can be accepted, due to the course grade deadline.
• [11/22] Office hours 11am - 1pm on Tuesday Nov 23 are being covered by Bo Peng in Upson 5138 (and not by Chi Ho in Upson 5162).
• [11/18] Phase III grades have been posted. Consult the course policy on regrades if you believe an error was made in grading. Regrade requests must be submitted by 12 noon Nov 24, 2010.
• [10/30] Phase II grades have been posted. Consult the course policy on regrades if you believe an error was made in grading. Regrade requests must be submitted by 9am Nov 3, 2010.
• [10/15] The readings have now been posted to accompany our lectures on failure detection, replication, time services, and quorums. Enjoy!
• [10/09] Homework 3 and Phase I grades have been posted. Consult the course policy on regrades if you believe an error was made in grading. Regrade requests for for these must be submitted by 9am Oct 15, 2010.
• [9/27] Homework 2 is graded. Your annotated submissions can be collected at the Homework Handback Room (Upson 360), which is open:
  Mon, Wed, Fri from 12 - 4:00pm.
  Tues, Thurs from 2:30 - 4:00pm.
  Consult the course policy on regrades if you believe an error was made in grading. Regrade requests for Homework 2 must be submitted by 9am Oct 4, 2010.
• [9/19] Please note the change to Friday office hours for the rest of the semester.
• [9/13] Homework 1 is graded. Your annotated submissions can be collected at the Homework Handback Room (Upson 360), which is open:
  Mon, Wed, Fri from 12 - 4:00pm.
  Tues, Thurs from 2:30 - 4:00pm.
  Consult the course policy on regrades if you believe an error was made in grading. Regrade requests for Homework 1 must be submitted by 9am Sept 20, 2010.
• [9/4] The course has been assigned an additional TA. Please welcome Mr. Bo Peng. With Mr. Peng on board, we can now offer additional office hours on Monday afternoon. See the revised schedule for TA office hours.