6.033: Computer System Engineering - Spring 2004

Note: click on the label for a particular date (e.g. L1, R17) to see the assignment for that day.

Week of	Monday Lecture	Tuesday Recitation	Wednesday Lecture	Thursday Recitation	Friday
2/2 - 2/6		R1: Worse is Better *First day of classes*	L1: Intro to systems Read:Ch 1.A+B+C	R2: Complexity	Writing Program lecture (2pm in 34-101) Read: The science of scientific writing Lecture Notes
2/9 - 2/13	L2: Technology trends Read: Ch 1.D+E	R3: Therac-25 [HTML] [PDF] Also read: a recent incident and Multidata's response Due: One-page essay	L3: Client/server systems Read: Ch 2.A+B	R4: X Window system Due: Hands-on 1, X Assigned: Design Project 1	Tutorial T1: Design Project 1 introduction Read: DP1 assignment
2/16 - 2/20	Presidents' Day Holiday	Monday Schedule L4: Fault isolation with VM Read: Ch 2.C	L5: Threads and coordination Read: Ch 2.D+E	R5: UNIX Due: Hands-on 2, UNIX [solutions]	Tutorial T2: Interrupts and context switches
2/23 - 2/27	L6: Performance Read: Ch 3.B+C	R6: Flash Web server [PS] [PDF]	L7: I/O bottleneck Read: Ch 3.A+D	R7: More UNIX and Flash Due: DP1 design proposal	Tutorial T3: Server performance, graceful degradation
3/1 - 3/5	L8: Networking intro Read: Ch 4.A	R8: Ethernet	L9: Layering and link layer Read: Ch 4.B+C	R9: Stupid networks	QUIZ 1: material through R8, in 50-340 (Walker) and 34-101 at 2:00! *Add date*
3/8 - 3/12	L10: Network layer and routing Read: Ch 4.D	R10: Internet routing	L11: End-to-end layer Read: Ch 4.E	R11: ARP Read: Ch 4 Appendix A Due: Hands-on 3, Traceroute [solutions]	Writing Program lecture (2pm in 34-101) [SLIDES]
3/15 - 3/19	L12: Congestion and flow control Read: Ch 4.F	R12: Network file system protocol (first 5 pages)	L13: Naming Read: Ch 5.A+B + Appendix A	R13: NAT and things that NATs break Due: Design Project 1	Enjoy Spring Break!
3/22 - 3/26	Spring Break
3/29 - 4/2	L14: Distributed naming Read: Ch 5 Appendix B+C+D	R14: Google and 9/11	L15: Security and cryptography Read: Ch 6.A+B Assigned: Design Project 2	R15: Security war stories Read: Ch 6 Appendix A Due: Hands-on 4, DNS	Tutorial T4: DP2 introduction
4/5 - 4/9	L16: Authentication Read: Ch 6.C+F	R16: Trusting Trust	L17: Authorization and confidentiality Read: Ch 6.D+E	R17: Why crypto systems fail Due: Hands-on 5, Crypto	Tutorial T5: TBA
4/12 - 4/16	L18: Advanced authentication Read: Ch 6.G	R18: Slammer and DoS Due: DP2 design proposal Quiz review, 7-9pm, 4-370	L19: Reliability Read: Ch 7.A+B+C	R19: Fault-tolerance war stories Read: Ch 7.D+E + Appendix A+B	QUIZ 2: material from L9 through R17, in 50-340 (Walker) at 2pm!
4/19 - 4/23	Patriots' Day: no class	Patriots' Day: no class	L20: Atomicity concepts Read: Ch 8.A+B; skim 8.C	R20: LFS Due: Hands-on 6, filesystem benchmarking Due:DP1 rewrite (if desired) *Drop date*	Tutorial T6: DP2 proposal feedback
4/26 - 4/30	L21: Recoverability Read: Ch 8.C + Ch 8 Appendix B	R21: System R Also read: Ch 9 Appendix A	L22: Isolation Read: Ch 8.D+E + Ch 8 Appendix A	R22: More System R Read: Chocolate, Tracking the Blackout Bug, and excerpts from the government reports Due: Hands-on 7, Logging [solutions]	Tutorial T7: TBA
5/3 - 5/7	Lecture cancelled due to power failure! Note make-up lecture on friday this week.	R23: Unison Also read: Ch 9.D	L23: Consistency and durability Read: Ch 9.A+B	R24: Durability Read: Ch 9.C+F Due: Design Project 2	L24: Multi-site atomicity Read: Ch 9.E Note: Lecture today, no tutorial!
5/10 - 5/14	L25: Coping with complexity (1) Read: Brooks Ch 1,2,4	R25: Design Project 2 presentations	L26: Coping with complexity (2) Read: Brooks Ch 5,8,11	R26: Lampson's Hints *Last day of classes*
5/17 - 5/21	QUIZ 3: material from L18 through R26 Quiz 3 will be in Johnson (upstairs) on Thursday, May 20 from 1:30 to 4:30 PM.

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