6.894 - Fall 2000 Schedule (Under construction; draft of 8/27)

Fall 2000 is over for 6.894. Happy Holidays!

6.894 is scheduled TR 1-2:30 in 36-156

Week of Sunday	Tuesday Lecture	Thursday Lecture
9/3 - 9/9		L1: Client/server architecture---Overview Lab handout: Using TCP Through Sockets Assignment: Asynchronous multifinger Lecture Notes: Powerpoint
9/10 - 9/16	L2: Client/server architecture: RPC Read: Birrell's NO paper Lecture Notes: Powerpoint,NFS RPC interface	L3: Infrastructure---Threading Read: Scheduler Activations Assignment: TCP proxy Due: asynchronous multifinger
9/17 - 9/23	L4: Lab recitation Asynchronous programming, Web, URLs, HTTP Assignment: Web proxy Read: HTTP 1.0	L5: Infrastructure---Coordination Read: Bershad92
9/24 - 9/30	L6: Infrastructure---Scheduling Read: Livelock paper	L7: Infrastructure---Address spaces & context switching Read: LRPC Due: TCP proxy
10/1 - 10/7	L8: Infrastructure---VM page tables Read: Appel & Li's VM paper	L9: Infrastructure---Memory management Read: UBM Tomorrow: Add date
10/8 - 10/14	Columbus Day vacation! vacation! vacation!	L10: Operating Systems---putting threads, VM, etc. together on a single node Read: Exokernel Recommended: Disco and Spin Due: Web proxy
10/15 - 10/21	L11: Operating systems---distributed Read: Plan 9 Assignment: Fourth Lab	L12: File systems---Single node storage systems Read: SGI XFS
10/22 - 10/28	No classes! Due: Fourth Lab (sfsusrv)	L13: File systems---Distributed Read: xFS Recommended reading: Sprite
10/29 - 11/4	Mid-term	L14: File systems---Replication & consistency Read:Bayou(SOSP97) Due: project proposal
11/5 - 11/11	L15: Security Intro---Confidentiality and authentication Read: SSL analysis Recommended reading: SSL3.0	L16: Security---Authentication & Authorization Read:TAOS
11/12 - 11/18	L17: Security---Key management Read: SFS	L18: Security---Protocols and DoS Read:Nym.alias.net
11/19 - 11/25	L19: Security---Decentralized systems Read: FreeNet Tomorrow: Drop date	Thanksgiving Vacation
11/26 - 12/3	L20: Scalable servers---Logs and transactions Read: Porcupine	L21: Scalable servers---Distributed programming Read: Gribble's OSDI paper
12/3 - 12/9	Hacking day???	L23: Scalable servers: wide-area server selection Read: Web caching Due: final project and paper
12/10- 12/16	L24: Scalable servers---Byzantine failures Read: Practical Byzantine fault tolerance	end of class
12/17- 12/23	Final on Monday 12/18 at 9am in walker	exam week

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