Remote Learning

• Lectures will happen live on zoom, and asynchronous recordings will be posted later in the day. We will get them up as soon as we can, but you should not expect them to appear exactly at 3:00pm every Monday and Wednesday.

• Recitations and tutorials will happen live on zoom, and we require synchronous attendance; we will not record these sections. You will be graded for participation in both recitations and tutorials (lots more on that here). We anticipate being able to offer a variety of timeslots for each of these sessions (including early morning and evening slots), to accommodate students in different timezones. If you are concerned about in-person attendance because of a difficult living situation, intermittent Internet access, etc., we will work with you to try to find a solution. If you have been assigned a section by the registrar, ignore it; we will assign you a permanent section.

• The midterm and final exams will be between two and three hours (exact time limit TBD), but you will be allowed to take them at any point in a larger time range (most likely 24 hours).

We will post zoom links for all sessions on Piazza, once we get closer to the start of the semester. Don't panic that you can't find the Piazza; it doesn't exist yet.

Course Calendar

6.033 covers four units of technical content: operating systems, networking, distributed systems, and security. Lectures deliver the fundamental technical concepts; recitations show you how those concepts are applied to real systems. In tutorial, you'll learn communication skills to help you reason about systems, and describe and defend your own.

The calendar below includes lecture and recitation topics, along with due dates for all assignments. We also note when we expect various assignments to become available, and when we expect to deliver feedback (grades or otherwise) for each of assignment. The release dates for assignments and feedback are subject to small changes throughout the semester.

We will release the Spring 2021 assignments as the semester progresses. The contents of this calendar for days more than two weeks in the future may be missing or inaccurate.

Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday
feb 15 President's day	feb 16 REC 1: Introduction to 6.033 Recitations First day of classes	feb 17 LEC 1: Enforced Modularity via Client/server Organization	feb 18 REC 2: We Did Nothing Wrong	feb 19 TUT 1: Intro to 6.033 Communication Released: DP Specification
feb 22 LEC 2: Naming	feb 23 REC 3: DNS Assignment Available: Hands-on DNS	feb 24 LEC 3: Virtual memory	feb 25 REC 4: UNIX DUE: DP Team input	feb 26 TUT 2: Consensus and Reasoning About Systems
mar 1 LEC 4: Bounded buffers and locks	mar 2 REC 5: UNIX Assignment Available: Hands-on UNIX Released: DP Team Assignments	mar 3 LEC 5: Threads DUE: Hands-on DNS	mar 4 REC 6: DP Discussion	mar 5 TUT 3: Reading for Systems Concepts Assignment Available: DP Prep Assignment
mar 8 Student Holiday	mar 9 LEC 6: OS structure, Virtual Machines	mar 10 LEC 7: Intro to networking and layering DUE: Hands-on UNIX Released: Hands-on DNS grades	mar 11 REC 7: Ethernet	mar 12 TUT 4: Collaboration and Collaborative Writing DUE: DP Prep Assignment Assignment Available: DP preliminary report (DPPR) Released: Recitation Participation Check-in #1
mar 15 LEC 8: Routing	mar 16 REC 8: Ethernet + Encapsulation Assignment Available: Hands-on traceroute	mar 17 LEC 9: BGP Released: Hands-on UNIX grades	mar 18 REC 9: Overlay Networks (RON)	mar 19 TUT 5: Visual Design, Figures, and Diagrams Released: Technical feedback on DP Prep assignment ADD DATE
mar 22 Student Holiday	mar 23 Student Holiday	mar 24 LEC 10: Transport Layer DUE: Hands-on traceroute	mar 25 REC 10: Performance Measurement (RON)	mar 26 TUT 6: Assembling the DPPR Released: WRAP feedback on DP Prep assignment
mar 29 LEC 11: In-network Resource Management	mar 30 REC 11: DCTCP DUE: DP Preliminary Report	mar 31 LEC 12: Application Layer Released: Hands-on traceroute grades	apr 1 REC 12: E2E	apr 2 TUT 7: DP Presentation Assignment Available: DP Presentation Assignment Released: Recitation participation Check-in #2
apr 5 LEC 13: Canceled	apr 6 REC 13: Canceled DUE: Midterm	apr 7 LEC 14: Reliability	apr 8 REC 14: GFS	apr 9 TUT 8: Responding to Feedback Feedback Released: Technical feedback on DPPR
apr 12 LEC 15: Transactions	apr 13 REC 15: MapReduce Released: Midterm grades Released: DPPR grades Assignment Available: Hands-on MapReduce	apr 14 LEC 16: Logging	apr 15 REC 16: ZFS	apr 16 TUT 9: Analysis and Evaluation
apr 19 Patriots day	apr 20 Student Holiday	apr 21 LEC 17: Isolation DUE: Hands-on MapReduce DUE: DP Presentations begin here Assignment Available: Hands-on logging	apr 22 REC 17: Canceled	apr 23 TUT 10: Peer Review Assignment Available: DP Peer Review Assignment Available: DP Report
apr 26 LEC 18: Distributed Transactions	apr 27 REC 18: Consistency Guarantees Assignment Available: Hands-on databases	apr 28 LEC 19: Replication DUE: Hands-on logging Released: Hands-on MapReduce grades	apr 29 REC 19: Raft Drop Date	apr 30 TUT 11: Final DP Report Released: DP Presentation grades Released: Recitation Participation Check-in #3
may 3 LEC 20: Intro to Security + Authentication	may 4 REC 20: Raft	may 5 LEC 21: Low-level attacks DUE: Hands-on databases Released: Hands-on logging grades	may 6 REC 21: TBD	may 7
may 10 LEC 22: Secure Channels	may 11 REC 22: TBD DUE: DP Report	may 12 LEC 23: Network Attacks Released: Hands-on databases grades	may 13 REC 23: TBD	may 14 DUE: DP Peer Review
may 17 LEC 24: TBD	may 18 REC 24: TBD	may 19 LEC 25: TBD Last day of classes	may 20	may 21
may 24 Final exams	may 25 Final exams	may 26 Final exams	may 27 Final exams	may 28 Final exams