6.826 Principles of Computer Systems

Lecture Notes

• Handouts 1&2: Course Information & Overview and Background
• Handout 3: Introduction to Spec
• Handout 4: Spec Reference Manual
• Handout 5: Examples of Specs and Code
• Handout 6: Abstraction Functions and Invariants
• Handout 7: Disks and File Systems
• Handout 8: Generalizing Abstraction Functions
• Handout 9: Atomic Semantics of Spec
• Handout 10: Performance
• Handout 11: Paper: Performance of Firefly RPC
• Handout 12: Naming
• Handout 13: Paper: Semantic File Systems
• Handout 14: Practical Concurrency
• Handout 15: Concurrent Disks and Directories
• Handout 16: Paper: Programming with Threads
• Handout 17: Formal Concurrency
• Handout 18: Consensus
• Handout 19: Sequential Transactions with Caching
• Handout 20: Concurrent Transactions
• Handout 21: Distributed Systems
• Handout 22: Paper: Autonet: A High-Speed, Self-Configuring Local Area Network using Point-to-Point Links
• Handout 23: Networks — Links and Switches
• Handout 24: Network Objects
• Handout 25: Paper: Network Objects
• Handout 26: Reliable Messages
• Handout 27: Distributed Transactions
• Handout 28: Availability and Replication
• Handout 29: Fault-Tolerance (from Gray and Reuter, Transaction Processing: Principles and Techniques; not available online)
• Handout 30: Concurrent Caching
• Handout 31: Paper: Computer Security in the Real World

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