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Fall 2010

 

Latest Announcements and News (please check often):

  • Final Exam: Monday December 13th, 1:30PM - 4:30PM Location: 1MEB-253 (Mechanical Engineering Building, Room: 253)
    • DO NOT Come to the Siebel Center Classroom (there will be no one there!)
    • You are allowed to bring a cheat sheet to the final exam (A4 size, two sides only, at least 1 pt font please)
    • Link to map of final exam location: http://www.fs.uiuc.edu/ada/0112.html
  • [12/08] Extra office hours:
    • Imranul: Dec 9 (Thursday), 2010 (10:30 am - 12 noon)
    • Indy: Dec 10 (Friday), 2010 (4 pm - 5 pm)
    • Note: Indy's regular office hours on Dec 9 (Thursday) are cancelled.
  • [12/05] MP3 deadline extended to Dec 6, 2010 (5 PM) (11:59 PM).
  • [11/18] Extra TA office hour today (3:30 PM - 5:00 PM).
  • [11/15] HW 5 out. Due: Nov 30, 2010 (Tuesday).
  • [11/08] MP 3 out. Due: Dec 5, 2010 (Sunday). Extended to: Dec 6, 2010 (5 PM)
  • [10/21] HW 4 out. Due: Nov 4, 2010 (Thursday). Extended to: Nov 9, 2010 (Tuesday)
  • [10/11] HW 3 out. Due: Oct 21, 2010 (Thursday).
  • [10/07] MP 2 out. Due: Oct 31, 2010 (Sunday).
  • [10/07] Midterm grades released in compass. [Midterm Solution]
  • [10/06] No TA office hours today.
  • [10/05] Midterm Exam. Syllabus: All Material from Lectures 1 through Lecture 10 (both inclusive), HW1, HW2, and MP1. (Exam location is Everitt Lab 151). Here is a campus map. Please do NOT come to the usual classroom in Siebel Center!
  • [10/01] MP1 Demos in the evening. Signup Sheet on Newsgroup.
  • [9/21] No office hours today (Indy).
  • [9/09] HW 2 out. Due: Sep 21, 2010 (Tuesday).
  • [9/01] MP 1 out. Due: Sep 30, 2010 (Thursday).
  • [8/31] HW 1 out. Due: Sep 9, 2010 (Thursday).
  • [8/24] First Lecture
  • [8/16] Website created.

Basic Information:

Class Meets:  Tu and Th, 2.00 PM - 3.15 PM, 1105 SC (Siebel Center)

Newsgroup (fastest way to get queries answered):  class.fa10.cs425

Office Hours: 

Textbook:

[Recommended purchase]  Coulouris, G., Dollimore, J., and Kindberg, T., Distributed Systems: Concepts and Design, Addison-Wesley, Fourth Edition, 2005, ISBN: 0321263545. Please note: The third edition ought to suffice for most of our material, but we will refer to chapter, section, and problem numbers ONLY in the Fourth Edition. Correct interpretation/translation of these numbers in the 3rd edition is solely the students' responsibility (no excuses).

[Supplementary (Optional) Textbooks]

Sukumar Ghosh. Distributed Systems: An Algorithmic Approach. 2006 CRC Press, ISBN: 1584885645.

A. Tanenbaum and M. Steen, Distributed systems: principles and paradigms, Prentice Hall, Second Edition, 2005, ISBN: 0132392275.

Prerequisites: CS 241 or ECE 391 or equivalent course on Operating Systems or Networking (approval of instructor required for latter).

Course Information Sheet: [pdf]

Student Infosheet/Survey (fill and return): [pdf]

Academic Integrity Policy:

We adhere by the CS academic integrity policies outlined at the webpage https://agora.cs.illinois.edu/display/undergradProg/Honor+Code . It is the course policy that all of the work you submit for grading, or in support of graded material, as an individual or project group, shall be your own product, from inception to completion. The only resources you can avail of in your HWs and MPs are the provided course materials (slides, textbooks, etc.), and communication with instructor/TA via newsgroup and email. Please do not reveal solutions on any of these fora. Exams are closed-book, closed-notes, unless otherwise specified.

Violations of this academic integrity policy will be treated seriously.