CSE 452 Spring 2025 Schedule

March
Sunday	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday
30	31 Lecture Introduction Slides 09:00-10:00 OH (Arvind) CSE 592	01 12:30-13:30 OH (Nikola) Allen 3rd Floor Breakout 13:30-15:30 OH (Arvin, David) CSE2 121 17:30-18:30 OH (Rich) Allen 3rd Floor Breakout	02 Lecture RPCs Slides 12:30-13:30 OH (Nikola) Gates 121	03 Section Labs 0 and 1, Design Doc Slides 9:00-10:00 OH (Rich) Gates 121 13:30-15:30 OH (Arvin) Gates 131 16:30-18:30 OH (Vidushi) Allen 3rd Floor Breakout	04 Lecture RPCs, Primary-backup Slides 14:00-16:00 OH (Stephanie) Allen 3rd floor breakout 16:30-18:30 OH (Frank) Allen 4th Floor Breakout	05

April
Sunday	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday
06	07 Lecture Primary-backup (contd.) 09:00-10:00 OH (Arvind) CSE 592	08 12:30-13:30 OH (Nikola) Allen 3rd Floor Breakout 13:30-15:30 OH (Arvin, David) CSE2 121 17:00-18:00 OH (Rich) Allen 3rd Floor Breakout	09 Lecture Primary-backup, Time/clocks Reading (up to, but not including, the section on physical clocks): Lamport, Time, Clocks, and the Ordering of Events Slides 12:30-13:30 OH (Nikola) Gates 121 23:59 Problem Set 1 (on gradescope), Lab 1 design doc, Lab 1 due	10 Section Labs 2 Primary Backup Overview Slides 9:00-10:00 OH (Rich) Gates 121 13:30-15:30 OH (Arvin) Gates 131 16:30-18:30 OH (Vidushi) Allen 3rd Floor Breakout	11 Lecture Lab 2: Primary-Backup Slides 14:00-16:00 OH (Stephanie) Allen 3rd floor breakout 16:30-18:30 OH (Frank) Allen 4th Floor Breakout	12
13	14 Lecture Clocks/vector clocks 09:00-10:00 OH (Arvind) CSE 592	15 12:30-13:30 OH (Nikola) Allen 3rd Floor Breakout 13:30-15:30 OH (Arvin, David) CSE2 121 17:00-18:00 OH (Rich) Allen 3rd Floor Breakout	16 Lecture Clocks, Snapshots Reading (focus on Section 10): Consistent Global States of Distributed Systems Slides 12:30-13:30 OH (Nikola) Gates 121	17 Section Lab 2 Design Doc Workshop Slides 9:00-10:00 OH (Rich) Gates 121 13:30-15:30 OH (Arvin) Gates 131 16:30-18:30 OH (Vidushi) Allen 3rd Floor Breakout	18 Lecture NO CLASS 10:45-11:45 OH (Arvind) CSE 592 14:00-16:00 OH (Stephanie) Allen 3rd floor breakout 16:30-18:30 OH (Frank) Allen 4th Floor Breakout 23:59 Lab 2 design doc due 23:59 Primary/backup and virtual time Problem set 2 due (Gradescope)	19
20	21 Lecture Snapshots Reading (How Distributed Consensus Works up to Distributed Consensus Performance): Managing Critical State 09:00-10:00 OH (Arvind) CSE 592	22 12:30-13:30 OH (Nikola) Allen 3rd Floor Breakout 13:30-15:30 OH (Arvin, David) CSE2 121 17:00-18:00 OH (Rich) Allen 3rd Floor Breakout	23 Lecture Paxos Lamport, Paxos Made Simple Slides 12:30-13:30 OH (Nikola) Gates 121	24 Section Lab 3 Paxos Overview Slides Slides (pptx) 9:00-10:00 OH (Rich) Gates 121 13:30-15:30 OH (Arvin) Gates 131	25 Lecture Paxos (contd.) 9:00-11:00 OH (Vidushi) Zoom (see link on Ed) 14:00-16:00 OH (Stephanie) Allen 3rd floor breakout 16:30-18:30 OH (Frank) Allen 4th Floor Breakout 23:59 Lab 2 due	26
27	28 Lecture Multi-round Paxos Reading (first 20 pages): van Renesse and Altinbuken, Paxos Made Moderately Complex Slides 09:00-10:00 OH (Arvind) CSE 592 9:45-10:45 OH (Arvind) CSE 592	29 12:30-13:30 OH (Nikola) Allen 3rd Floor Breakout 13:30-15:30 OH (Arvin, David) CSE2 121 17:00-18:00 OH (Rich) Allen 3rd Floor Breakout	30 Lecture Lab 3: Multi-Paxos (contd.) 12:30-13:30 OH (Nikola) Gates 121 23:59 Paxos Problem set 3 due (Gradescope)	01 Section Lab 3 Paxos Design Doc Workshop Slides 9:00-10:00 OH (Rich) Gates 121 13:30-15:30 OH (Arvin) Gates 131 16:30-18:30 OH (Vidushi) Allen 3rd Floor Breakout	02 Lecture Multipaxos Illustrated Slides 9:00-11:00 OH (Stephanie) Allen 2nd Floor Breakout 16:30-18:30 OH (Frank) Allen 4th Floor Breakout	03

May
Sunday	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday
04	05 Lecture Memory Consistency Reading (focus on sections 4 and 5): Lamport, On Interprocess Communication Slides 1:00-2:00 OH (Arvind) CSE 592	06 12:30-13:30 OH (Nikola) Allen 3rd Floor Breakout 13:30-15:30 OH (Arvin, David) CSE2 121 17:00-18:00 OH (Rich) Allen 3rd Floor Breakout 23:59 MultiPaxos Problem set 4 due (Gradescope) 23:59 Lab 3 design doc due 23:59 Lab 2 design doc revision due (W credit only)	07 Lecture NO CLASS 12:30-13:30 OH (Nikola) Gates 121 17:30-20:30 OH (Vidushi) Zoom (see link on Ed)	08 Section Lab 3 Office Hours 9:00-10:00 OH (Rich) Gates 121 13:30-15:30 OH (Arvin) Gates 131	09 Lecture Memory Consistency (contd.) 14:00-16:00 OH (Stephanie) Allen 3rd floor breakout 16:30-18:30 OH (Frank) Allen 4th Floor Breakout	10
11	12 Lecture Distributed Cache Coherence Slides 09:00-10:00 OH (Arvind) CSE 592	13 12:30-13:30 OH (Nikola) Allen 3rd Floor Breakout 13:30-15:30 OH (Arvin, David) CSE2 121 17:00-18:00 OH (Rich) Allen 3rd Floor Breakout	14 Lecture Sharding Slides 12:30-13:30 OH (Nikola) Gates 121 23:59 Lab 3 due	15 Section Lab 4 Parts 1,2 Overview Slides 9:00-10:00 OH (Rich) Gates 121 13:30-15:30 OH (Arvin) Gates 131 16:30-18:30 OH (Vidushi) Allen 3rd Floor Breakout	16 11:30-12:20 Lecture MGH 389 Two-phase commit Reading (up to, but not including, three-phase commit): Bernstein, Hadzilacos, and Goodman, Distributed Recovery Slides 14:00-16:00 OH (Stephanie) Allen 3rd floor breakout 16:30-18:30 OH (Frank) Allen 4th Floor Breakout	17
18	19 Lecture Non-blocking two-phase commit Slides 09:00-10:00 OH (Arvind) CSE 592 23:59 Linearizability Problem set 5 due (Gradescope)	20 12:30-13:30 OH (Nikola) Allen 3rd Floor Breakout 17:00-18:00 OH (Rich) Allen 3rd Floor Breakout	21 Lecture Lab 4 Part 3 Slides 12:30-13:30 OH (Nikola) Gates 121	22 Section Lab 4 Design Doc Workshop Slides 9:00-10:00 OH (Rich) Gates 121 13:30-15:30 OH (Arvin) Gates 131	23 Lecture NO CLASS 9:00-11:00 OH (Vidushi) Zoom (see link on Ed) 14:00-16:00 OH (Stephanie) Allen 3rd floor breakout 16:30-18:30 OH (Frank) Allen 4th Floor Breakout 23:59 Lab 4 Part 2 design doc due 23:59 Lab 3 design doc revision due (W credit only)	24 9:00-11:00 OH (David) Zoom
25	26 Memorial Day	27 12:30-13:30 OH (Nikola) Allen 3rd Floor Breakout 17:00-18:00 OH (Rich) Allen 3rd Floor Breakout 23:59 Lab 4 Part 1 due	28 Lecture BigTable Reading (blog): Chang et al., Bigtable: A Distributed Storage System for Structured Data Optional: Burrows, The Chubby lock service for loosely-coupled distributed systems Slides 12:30-13:30 OH (Nikola) Gates 121 23:59 Sharding and Coherence (6a) and Transactions (6b) Problem set 6a and 6b due (Gradescope)	29 Section Lab 4 Office Hours Slides 9:00-10:00 OH (Rich) Gates 121 13:30-15:30 OH (Arvin) Gates 131 16:30-18:30 OH (Vidushi) Allen 3rd Floor Breakout	30 Lecture Mapreduce Reading (blog): Dean and Ghemawat, MapReduce: Simplified Data Processing on Large Clusters GFS Slides MR Slides 14:00-16:00 OH (Stephanie) Allen 3rd floor breakout 16:30-18:30 OH (Frank) Allen 4th Floor Breakout	31 9:00-11:00 OH (David) Zoom

June
Sunday	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday
01	02 Lecture Bitcoin Reading: Nakamoto, Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System Slides 09:00-10:00 OH (Arvind) CSE 592	03 12:30-13:30 OH (Nikola) Allen 3rd Floor Breakout 17:00-18:00 OH (Rich) Allen 3rd Floor Breakout 23:59 Lab 4 Part 2 due	04 Lecture Dynamo Reading: Decandia, Dynamo: Amazon's Highly Available Key-Value Store Optional: Elhemali et al., Amazon DynamoDB Slides 12:30-13:30 OH (Nikola) Gates 121	05 Section Lab 4 Office Hours 9:00-10:00 OH (Rich) Gates 121 13:30-15:30 OH (Arvin) Gates 131	06 Lecture Wrap up 9:00-11:00 OH (Vidushi) Zoom (see link on Ed) 14:00-16:00 OH (Stephanie) Allen 3rd floor breakout 16:30-18:30 OH (Frank) Allen 4th Floor Breakout	07 9:00-11:00 OH (David) Zoom 23:59 Paper questions Problem set 7 due (Gradescope)
08	09	10 9:30-11:30 OH (Stephanie) Allen 2nd Floor Breakout 16:00-18:00 OH (Frank) Allen 3rd Floor Breakout	11	12	13 23:59 Lab 4 Part 3 due (no grace period) 23:59 All labs due (no grace period) 23:59 Lab 4 Part 2 design doc revision due (W credit only) (no grace period)	14