Lecture
DSLabs
Research Papers
3LA (3-Letter Acronyms)
Mixed Bag
100

Which RPC semantics does DNS fall under?

What is at-least-once?

100

The fault model assumed in the labs.

What is asynchronous fail stop?

100

This large company based its initial cloud offerings on a weak consistency model, but now supports strict consistency.

What is Amazon?

100

2PC

What is 2-Phase Commit


100

The year CSE 452 was first offered.

What is 2013?

200

A giant fish, a drop of golden sun, or a distributed system.

What is Ray?

200

He authored the beloved (or hated) ./run-tests.py script.

Ellis Michael

200

The name of the original paper on Paxos.

What is the Part-Time Parliament?

What is Viewstamped Replication?

200

RPC

What is Remote Procedure Call?

200

8

What is the number of TAs on the course staff?

300

If A does not happen-before B and B does not happen-before A... what is the relationship between A and B?

What is concurrent?

300

355

How many points is lab 3 worth?

300

Of the papers on Google's core distributed system architecture: Chubby (Paxos), GFS (file system), BigTable, and MapReduce, this was published first.

What is GFS? (2003)

300

GFS

What is the Google File System?

300

The PhD thesis of this 452 instructor was not on distributed systems.

Who is Tom?

400

This is a description of: two armies are encamped on two hills surrounding a city in a valley decide when to attack but their messenger can be captured

What is the Two Generals Problem?

400

The command to invoke visual debugger for lab 3 test 17?

--start-viz

400

These two distributed algorithms are believed to be different but really are not... like coke and pepsi

What is Paxos and Raft?

400

FLP

What is Fischer-Lynch-Paterson?

400

Leslie Lamport won the Turing Award for several contributions to distributed systems, but *not* this topic covered in 452 and ascribed to Lamport?

What is Paxos?!

500

What is the clock value at event E (Diagram A)

What is 7?


500

The lab 4 grading policy

What is min(part 3 submission, part 2 submission + 190).

500

The estimated wealth of Satoshi Nakamoto, to the nearest billion.

What is $80B?

500

TLA

What is Temporal Logic of Actions?

500

2267

What is the number of UW students who have ever taken CSE 452?

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