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Fall 2021
Prof. Gilles Louppe
g.louppe@uliege.be
This course is given by:
- Theory: Gilles Louppe (g.louppe@uliege.be)
- Practicals and projects: Sami Ben Mariem (Sami.BenMariem@uliege.be)
Feel free to contact any of us for help!
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- Understand the foundational principles of distributed systems, on top of which distributed databases and computing systems are operating.
- Understand why data systems are designed the way they are designed.
- Fun and challenging course project.
- Practice and improve your system engineering skills!
- Assess the benefits and disadvantages of data systems.
- No hype!
Slides are available at github.com/glouppe/info8002-large-scale-data-systems.
- In HTML and in PDFs.
- Published/Updated the day before the lesson.
- Slight differences/improvements/fixes from previous years.
Slides are partially adapted from CSE 486/585 Distributed systems (University at Buffalo) and CS425 Distributed systems (University of Illinois UC).
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Podcasts from Fall 2020 are available on MyULiège.
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The core content of this course (lectures 2 to 5) is based on the following textbook:
.italic[Christian Cachin, Rachid Guerraoui, Luis Rodrigues, "Introduction to Reliable and Secure Distributed Programming", Springer.]
Read, summarize and criticize a major scientific paper in large-scale data systems. (See GitHub for papers and instructions.)
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Implement a distributed application. (Project to be announced later.)
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- Oral exam (50%)
- Reading assignment (10%)
- Programming project (40%)
Projects are mandatory for presenting the exam.
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Say some brief comment on the organization of the oral.
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Let's start!