News & Notes
- The TA's office hours are M 4pm -- 5:20pm and F 10am -- 11:30 am in
ECS 334.
- The class has been shifted to CP 209 effective 09/08/1999
- For the next 4-5 classes, we will cover mutual exclusion and deadlocks in distributed systems. You should be familiar with the material in Chap 6&7
of the 421 text (Silberschatz & Galvin). The same material is present in
Chap. 2&3 in our text, with some enhancements. The paper by Hoare is recommended reading, but no summary need be turned in.
- Summary of Distributed Mutual Exclusion paper by Aggarwal and El-Abbadi due in class on 09/20.
- Homework 1 has been assigned,
due 09/30 by midnight
- The term Project has been assigned.
- Summary of Coda paper due 10/18
- I am evaluating the first submission for the project, and
will have feedback next week.
- Midterm Exam is on Nov 1. Here is the syllabus.
- Please remember that the submission deadline for the second
progress report on the project was brought up to Nov 18
- Paper summary of Rego et al. due on 11/24
- The final exam is on Monday, December 20th. As we announced in class, the exam will be comprehensive, although the stress will be on the material
from after the midterm.
- Please familiarize yourselves with the submission details for
the project as outlined in the project handout. Remember that your final
report along with the code is due by December 15th. I will put up a signup
sheet for demo times outside my door on Monday, Dec 13. Slots will be given
out FCFS. One important change -- due to a variety of reasons, I will not
be able to handle any demos on Friday, the 17th. As such, I will open Tuesday,
the 21st as an additional demo day
- Here is the syllabus for the final.
Anupam Joshi
Last modified: Wed Nov 17 16:34:39 EST 1999