Outline

ch0 - opening lecture, setting up the agenda and forms of work
ch1 - introduction to distributed systems 
ch2 - background in communication models
ch3 - a few notes and pointers to architecture models and exercise material
ch4 - syncronization needs rising from concurrency and lack of global time
ch5 - consistency models and protocols for keeping replicas consistent
ch6 - fault tolerance issues, fault management in distributed transactions
ch7 - building services: NFS and CODA examples