CS514: Intermediate Computer Systems

Course News (last updated May 2, 2005):

• Phase 4 demos will be held on May 3rd, Tuesday, 5:30 to 7:00 PM in CSUGLab. Demos for the M.Eng optional features will be held on May 5th, Thursday evening (time to de decided).
• We're in the process of revising the phase IV project description to simplify it; we'll replace it with a choice (the current phase IV, or one that uses a simpler primary-backup approach).   Look for a posted update on Wednesday March 9.  At this time we do not plan to change phase III.
• Krzys' office hours on Wednesday moved to 12-1.
• We've granted an automatic extension for those who need more time on phase 2: A maximum of one week.  Email your excuse to Vivek but the extension is automatic.

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.

Slide Sets

Learning C# and Visual Studio

Programming Project.

• Phase 0: Project-group formation
  

• Phase I: A Distributed Bank
  Answers to Frequently Asked Questions for Phase I
  

• Phase II: Bank Balance Computation
  

• Phase III: Fail-stop Failures with Message Logging
  

• Phase IV: Replicated State Machines
   

• Phase V: Performance Tuning

Optional Features:

• Optional Features (for people doing an MEng project, or who want more of a challenge)