CS 2620 Distributed Systems

Lecture material

• Distributed systems
• The consensus problem
• Fisher-Lynch-Paterson impossibility
• Failure detectors and Chandra-Toueg consensus
• Paxos
• State machine replication
• Multi-Paxos

Problem sets

• Problem set 1
• Problem set 2
• Problem set 3

Manuals

• Cotamer
• Cotamer I/O