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Can this course be taken/audited online? My degree has a distributed course, but there isn't even a mention of anything like Paxos.

• tnahsus 14y ago
  Many universities have DS courses based on the same syllabus and labs. I took this at NYU: http://news.cs.nyu.edu/~jinyang/fa12/ http://news.cs.nyu.edu/~jinyang/fa12/ You can read the notes/papers and do the labs as instructed.
• chubot 14y ago
  Where do you see Paxos? This looks like something simpler. It pretty much has to be as implementing Paxos would be too hard for a class exercise. I don't think it makes sense to do Paxos with 2 servers.
  • noelh 14y ago
    It appears that Paxos will be used in the third lab, http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/6.824/labs/lab-3.html http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/6.824/labs/lab-3.html.
    • jeremyis 14y ago
      In the 2010 version of this course, we implemented paxos on one of the later labs. It was considered one of the hardest I think.
      • Evbn 14y ago
        How is Paxos hard? Inventing Paxos is hard. Implementing it is implementing a well-specified state machine.
        • rsc 14y ago
          If it was so easy papers like this would not exist: http://research.google.com/archive/paxos_made_live.html http://research.google.com/archive/paxos_made_live.html
• nehan 14y ago
  All the lecture notes will be put online, and you are welcome to clone the code and do the labs. If your code passes the tests reliably, you would have gotten full credit.