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Large Systems 2020-2021
| Lecturer | Arno Bakker |
| Lab Teachers | Vincent Breider, Roy Vermeulen |
Books
Design and Implementation
Distributed Systems (3rd Edition, February 2017)
by Maarten van Steen and Andrew S. Tanenbaum
Recommend reading
You might find it useful to read this sample chapter from “The Practice of Cloud System Administration” by Limoncelli et al., 2015. Content-wise, it sits between the two books.
Administration
The Practice of System and Network Administration (3rd Edition, October 2016)
by Thomas A. Limoncelli, Christina J. Hogan, Strata R. Chalup
ISBN-10: 0321919165
ISBN-13: 978-0321919168
Grading
Your final grade consists of:
Closed-book Exam 85%
Presentation 15%
Minimum grade for each part 4.0. Lab assignments must be graded sufficiently for the exam grade to count.
Presentation Date: Monday, December 14, 9:00
Exam Date: Thursday, December 17, 12:00 + 14:45
Deadline for labs: Sunday January 3, 2021, 23:59
Sheets
| Week | Topic | Quiz | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1a | Course Intro & Distribution Intro & Virtualization | Course Intro, Distr. Intro, Virtualization Part 1 | |
| 1b | Virtualization | Virtualization Part 2 | Crossword |
| 2a | Virtualization | Virtualization Part 3 | Diagrams, Container Colouring Book |
| 2b | Virtualization + Communication | Virtualization Part 4, Communication Part 1 | |
| 3a | Guest lecture Pieter Lexis on IaC | See internal page | |
| 3b | Communication & Coordination Part 2 | Communication & Coordination Part 2 | |
| 4a | Replication & Partitioning | Replication & Partitioning | |
| 4b | Fault Tolerance | Fault Tolerance & BitTorrent | |
| 5a | Architectures: Google Search | Architectures: Google Search | |
| 5b | Datacenters & Admin Intro | Datacenters , Admin Intro | |
| 6a | Guest lecture Kris Buytaert on DevOps | Slides | |
| 6b | Services & Desktops | Services, Desktops | |
| 7a | Servers | Servers | |
| 7w | Guest lecture Abe Boersma on Infrastructure at Rabobank | See internal page | Note: Wednesday 9:00 |
| 7b | Overflow |
Assignments
| Week | Topic | Code | Feedback deadline | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Virtualization | Lab 1 (2 afternoons) | Nov 5, 9:00 | |
| 2 | VM Migration | Lab 2 (2 afternoons) | Nov 12, 9:00 | |
| 3a | RPC | Lab 3a (1 afternoon) | fileio.py, dgramconn.py, fileiotest.py | Nov 16, 9:00 |
| 3b | Clocks | Lab 3b (1 afternoon) | Averaging Protocol | Nov 19, 9:00 |
| 4 | Infrastructure as Code | Lab 4 (2 afternoons) | In your repo! ;o) | Nov 26, 9:00 |
| 5 | Scientific measurement | Lab 5 (2 afternoons) | Dec 3, 9:00 | |
| 6 | Amazon EC2 | Lab 6 (2 afternoons) | Optional | |
| 7 | Prepare presentation | (2 afternoons) |
Site Visits
Due to the Corona virus we have not organized any site visits.
Papers
Projects? Based on student feedback, there is no LS project this year. Instead there are more labs to teach you about Large Systems.