1Thu D. NguyenCS 545: Distributed Systems CS 545: Distributed Systems Spring 2006 Department of Computer Science Rutgers University Thu D. Nguyen

2 CS 545: Distributed Systems Goals Learn some fundamentals of how to build distributed systems Read and discuss interesting recent work in several areas of distributed systems Get involved in distributed systems research by doing a project

3Thu D. NguyenCS 545: Distributed Systems Pre-requisites Graduate-level course in operating systems Strong motivation

4Thu D. NguyenCS 545: Distributed Systems Structure Will run somewhat like a seminar Course based on presentation and discussion of papers Background reading from Tanenbaum & van Steen text book Students are responsible for all of the presentations I may give short discussions on appropriate background for some topics before the presentations Auditors are expected to read papers and participate Two papers per lecture + discussion of progress Also weekly reading from text book for background

5Thu D. NguyenCS 545: Distributed Systems Requirements Presentations and research project Expect about 2 (perhaps 3, depending on enrollment) Participate in 1 project Read and summarize papers before classes Summaries will be electronically submitted Write 1 position paper You will “grade” each other’s position paper Participation during classes At the end of the semester, you must document 3 times that a comment or question from you led to a significant discussion during class

6Thu D. NguyenCS 545: Distributed Systems Grading 20% presentations 10% paper summaries 40% project 10% position paper 20% class discussions and participation

7Thu D. NguyenCS 545: Distributed Systems Logistics Mailing list: If you are registered for the course, you will be added to the list automatically If you are auditing, you can send me if you want to be on the list Paper summaries should be submitted via WebCT A separate discussion board will be created per paper Discussion boards and chat rooms also available in WebCT

8Thu D. NguyenCS 545: Distributed Systems Tentative List of Topics Cluster-based file systems Cluster-based services Federated systems Infrastructure Resource management Services Replication and consistency Availability Management Security

9Thu D. NguyenCS 545: Distributed Systems Presentations and Summaries Make sure to prepare your presentation well! Getting slides from authors or other sources is not allowed Grading will be based on how well you (a) organize and deliver your presentation, (b) cover the critical points of the paper, and (c) answer questions Please, do not make us wait. Set yourself up before the beginning of class Summaries should describe the key ideas and results Should also point out good and bad aspects of each paper Suggestion(s) for future work are highly encouraged Must not be regurgitation of parts of the paper; use your own words Choose which papers you would like to present and send me FCFS

10Thu D. NguyenCS 545: Distributed Systems Project Participation in 1 of 3 projects Build and operate a highly available cluster-based web service Build monitoring and fault diagnosis infrastructure for a distributed enterprise environment such as the department’s Build a distributed front-end for a meta WAN-based file system with QoS guarantees