CS 345 Distributed Systems Fabián E. Bustamante, Winter 2004 Welcome to Advanced OS Fabián E. Bustamante (Instructor) Yi Qiao (Ad Honorem TA) Communication channels: – Course webpage - all you need to know ~fabianb/classes/cs-443.html – Newsgroup for discussions cs.443 – for other questions

CS 345 Distributed Systems 2 Approach About 10 topics (from OS design to new applications areas such as ad-hoc & sensor networks) Background & paper discussion per topic –Background –Paper presentation –Paper discussion Projects –Some ideas will be posted –In-class project discussion Take-home exam

CS 345 Distributed Systems 3 Lectures Two lectures per topic (most of them at least) Lecture 1: –25’ Background presentation –10’ Clarification questions –25’ Paper 1 presentation –10’ Discussion Lecture 2: –25’ Paper 2 presentation –10’ Discussion –25’ Paper 3 presentation –10’ Discussion

CS 345 Distributed Systems 4 Paper presentation ~3 Conference style presentation per student Keep in mind –The presentation is a performance, carefully planned & rehearsed –You are the main advocate of the work, act as such –Respect your audience –Do not waste your time with filler –Make your slides visually pleasant w/o a Madison Avenue look Slides will be posted in the course website Your audience will give you feedback and rate your presentation based on (I’ll provide a form for this) –Preparation – understanding of the material, handling of questions … –Presentation material – level of details, use of examples, slide contents, … –Delivery – presentation itself, volume, enthusiasm, eye contact, …

CS 345 Distributed Systems 5 Paper summary Two papers per week; you pick which one (the others you only have to read) For every paper – a one-page summary due by 11:59PM of the previous day –Paper title and its author(s) –Brief one-line summary –A paragraph of the most important ideas. –A paragraph of the largest flaws. Being able to assess weaknesses as well as strengths is an important skill for this course and beyond. –A last paragraph where you state the relevance of the ideas today, potential future research suggested by the article, etc. Useful brochure: Efficient reading of papers in Science and Technology by M. Hanson, 1990, revised 2000 D. McNamee.Efficient reading of papers in Science and Technology

CS 345 Distributed Systems 6 Projects Goal: workshop-quality report Discuss ideas w/ me; some ideas … –Worm detection and contention in a P2P backbone network –Wide-area event-based system –Visualization and steering for C3 – car-to-car cooperation Schedule/Deadlines –04/07/05: Pick area (e.g. storage systems) & it to me –04/19/05: Small literary survey due (2-3 pages) –04/28/05: Pick topic (after discussing it with me) –05/19/05: Full paper due for review –05/31/05: Reviews back (Friday before presentations start) –06/08/05: Final paper due

CS 345 Distributed Systems 7 Take-home exam Open-book (that means, web access ) About five in-depth questions I’ll be making the following assumptions: –You have read all papers listed –You have acquired the required background –You understand the issues at play –You can critically read a paper

CS 345 Distributed Systems 8 Grading Paper summaries: 10% Class presentation: 10% Class participation: 10% Project: 40% –Survey paper: 5% –Project presentation: 10% –Final paper: 25% Final (take-home) exam: 30%

CS 345 Distributed Systems 9 Outline Week (dates)Topic (classes)Due 1 st (Mar. 31 th )Introduction (1) 2 nd (Apr. 5-7 th )OS Design (2)4/7: Area 2 nd (Apr th )Communication (2) 3 th (Apr st )Processes & Threads (2)4/19: Survey 4 th (Apr th )Virtual & Shared Memory (2)4/28: Topic 5 th (May 3-5 th )Storage & File Systems (2) 6 th (May th )Internet Services (2) 7 th (May th )Fault Tolerance, bugs, etc, (2)5/19: Paper (v0) 8 th (May 24 th )Security, Protection & DoS (2) 9 th (May st )Ad-Hoc & Sensor Networks (2)5/31: Review 10 th (Jun. 2 nd )Project Presentation (1) Finals (Jun th )Take-home Exam6/8: Paper (v1)