The chapter readings are from Comer and Stevens.
- Week 1 - Introduction to Client-Sever Computing (21 & 23 January)
- Readings
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Chapters 1 & 2
- Class notes
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Distributed computing introduction
Client-server distributed computing
- Week 2 - The Socket API (28 & 30 January)
- Readings
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Chapters 4 & 5
- One-minute reviews
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28 & 30 January
- Class notes
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The IP protocol set
The Sockets API
- Week 3 - Client and Server Algorithms (4 & 6 February)
- Readings
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Chapters 6 & 8
- Class notes
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Client architectures
Server architectures
- One-minute reviews
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4 & 6 February
- Project
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Project 1 available (last modified on 12 March 2003) on Tuesday, 4 February,
due on Tuesday, 11 March at 2:00 p.m.
- Week 4 - Iterative Servers (11 & 13 February)
- Readings
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Chapters 9 & 10
- Class notes
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Iterative servers
- One-minute reviews
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11 & 13 February
- Week 5 - Concurrency Issues (18 & 20 February)
- Readings
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Chapters 16 & 17
- Class notes
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Concurrency and Server Architectures
Concurrency and Client Architectures
Concurrency and Server Performance
- Week 6 - Process-Based Concurrency (25 & 27 February)
- Readings
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Chapters 3 & 11
- Class notes
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Concurrency
Process concurrency
- Week 7 - Thread-Based Concurrency (4 & 6 March)
- Readings
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Chapters 12 & 13
- Class notes
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Thread based concurrency
Single-threaded concurrency
Process vs threads performance
- Test 1
- Tuesday, 4 March
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The answers
The grades
- Project
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Project 2 available on Tuesday, 11 March,
due on Tuesday, 8 April at 2:00 p.m.
- Week 8 - Spring Recess (10-16 March)
- Project
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Project 1 due on Tuesday, 11 March at 2:00 p.m.
The grades
- Week 9 - Remote-Procedure Calls (18 & 20 February)
- Readings
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Chapter 21 & 22
- Class notes
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Introduction to remote procedure calls
Implementing RPC
- One-minute reviews
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18 & 20 March
- Week 10 - Data Representations and Program Generation (25 & 27 March)
- Readings
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Chapters 20 & 23
- Class notes
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RPC case studies
- One-minute reviews
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25 & 27 March
- Week 11 - HTTP and CGI (1 & 3 April)
- Drop Day
- Monday, 31 March
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- Readings
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Hypertext Transfer Protocol - HTTP/1.0 (rfc 1945)
The Common Gateway Interface (CGI)
- Class notes
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The Hypertext Transfer Protocol
Fun with HTTP
The Common Gateway Interface
Fun with CGI
- One-minute reviews
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1 & 3 April
15 & 17 April
- Project
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Project 2 due on Tuesday, 8 April at 2:00 p.m.
The grades
Project 3 available (last modified on 28 April 2003) on Tuesday, 8 April, due on Tuesday, 6 May at 2:00 p.m.
- Test 2
- Tuesday, 1 April
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The answers
The grades
- Week 12 - Tunneling and Gateways (8 & 10 April)
- Readings
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Chapters 18 & 19
- Class notes
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Gateways
Tunneling
- One-minute reviews
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8 & 10 April
- Week 13 - The Network File System (15 & 17 April)
- Readings
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Chapter 24
- Class notes
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Distributed file systems
Peer-to-peer systems
- One-minute reviews
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15 & 17 April
- Week 14 - Multi-Protocol and Multi-Service Servers (22 & 24 April)
- Readings
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Chapters 14 & 15
- Class notes
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Multi-Protocol Servers
Multi-Service Servers
- Week 15 - High-Performance Server Architectures (29 April & 1 May)
- Class notes
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Jini
- Readings
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The SEDA
event-driven architecture.
The Flash
web server
architecture.
- Project
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Project 3 due on Tuesday, 6 May at 2:00 p.m.
- Test 3
- Thursday, 8 May, 7:45-9:45 p.m. in Edison 120
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The answers
The grades
This page last modified on 13 May 2003.