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CS 545: Distributed Systems at Rutgers University aims to provide students with the fundamentals of building distributed systems, explore recent research, and encourage participation in practical projects. The course follows a seminar format, emphasizing paper presentations and discussions. Key topics include cluster-based systems, resource management, replication, and security. Students are expected to conduct research projects, summarize academic papers, and engage actively in classroom discussions. Grading is based on presentations, project work, position papers, and class participation.
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CS 545: Distributed SystemsSpring 2006Department of Computer ScienceRutgers University Thu D. Nguyen 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 CS 545: Distributed Systems
Pre-requisites • Graduate-level course in operating systems • Strong motivation CS 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 CS 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 CS 545: Distributed Systems
Grading • 20% presentations • 10% paper summaries • 40% project • 10% position paper • 20% class discussions and participation CS 545: Distributed Systems
Logistics • Mailing list: dcs_545_s06@rams.rutgers.edu • If you are registered for the course, you will be added to the list automatically • If you are auditing, you can send me email 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 CS 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 CS 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 email • FCFS CS 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 CS 545: Distributed Systems
