Homework Assignments and Reporting Session (a.k.a. Seminars)

You are required to perform 5 (five) homework assignments listed below, to practice and discuss solutions some interesting aspects of distributed systems.

Each homework assignment must be presented and demonstrated in a class to course teaching assistant at a corresponding seminar on the date the homework is due. Note that the seminar "Hello Erlang" is not mandatory.

For each homework topic, there are two sessions -- a workshop (Räknestuga) and a seminar (Seminarium).

Workshops are helping sessions, which are not mandatory but you will be able to get some help from TAs in solving the problems and doing your homework. The best thing is if you are already prepared and spend the time at the session solving the tricky issues and maybe run some experiments.

A a seminar, you present and demonstrate results of your homework assignments to a teaching assistant. At the seminar, you should have a working system up and running. The reporting seminars are mandatory and you should be prepared to explain and demonstrate your results as well as discuss the problems encountered, pros and cons, and possible improvements. 

Topics of Homework Assignments and Corresponding Reporting Sessions (Seminars)

Hello Erlang: an introduction to Erlang. -- Not mandatory. there is nothing that you need to hand in, just get some help. Helps available during the first two weeks.

1. Rudy: a small web server (Doodle link to book time for reporting)
2. Routy: a routing network (Doodle link to book time for reporting)
3. Loggy: a logical time logger (Doodle link to book time for reporting)
4. Groupy: a group membership service (Doodle link to book time for reporting)
5. Chordy: a distributed hash table (Doodle link to book time for reporting)

The report, presentation and demonstration

At a seminar session you should present and demonstrate your homework solution and hand in a printed copy of a 2-3 page report that describes your results to a course teaching assistant. If you fail to clearly present, explain and demonstrate your results, you have failed the seminar and will have to redo the course next year. Use the following LaTex template for the report:

• Seminar template

Sign up

Sign up to one of the sessions for the reporting seminars. You sign up using the Doodle links below (to be provided later).