Seminars

There will be six seminar topics that will guide you through some interesting aspects of distributed systems.

For each topic you will have two sessions. The first session is not mandatory but you will be able to get some help in solving the problem. The best thing is if you are already well prepared and spend the time at the session solving the tricky issues and maybe run some experiments.

On the second seminar you should have a working system up and running so that you can either connect to others in a larger distrubuted system, extend the system, run some benchmarks and discuss the problems encountered. The second seminar sessions are mandatory and you should be prepared to explain your results. Note - the first topic is not mandatory and there is nothing that you need to hand in.

The report

At the seminar you should hand in a 2-3 page report that describes your results. You should use the LaTex template provided and hand in a printed copy at the start of the seminar. If you fail to prepare properly you have falled the seminar and will have to redo the course next year. Use the following LaTex template:

• Seminar template

Sign up

Sign up to one of the sessions for the Thursday seminars: morning, before lunch and afternoon. You sign up using Daisy.

Schedule

• Hello Erlang: an introduction to Erlang
  • Not mandatory, help is available during the first two weeks.
• Rudy: a small web server
  • Monday/Tuesday  15-16'th of September
  • Wednesday 17'th of September - mandatory
• Routy: a routing network
  • Monday/Tuesday 22-23'th of September
  • Wednesday 24'th of September - mandatory
• Loggy: a logical time logger
  • Tuesday 30'th of September
  • Thursday 2'nd of October - mandatory
• Groupy: a group membership service
  • Tuesday 7'th of October
  • Wednesday 8'th of October - mandatory
• Chordy: a distributed hash table
  • Monday 13'th of October
  • Tuesday 14'th of October - mandatory