Course Calendar
| Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday |
| 2026-09-14 | 2026-09-15 LEC 1 / 1.1: Introduction to CSE; Scaling (Scaling slides) | 2026-09-16 | 2026-09-17 LEC 2: inode filesystem (slides) | 2026-09-18 |
| 2026-09-21 | 2026-09-22 LEC 3: File system API (slides) | 2026-09-23 | 2026-09-24 LEC 4: Remote procedure call (slides) | 2026-09-25 Mid-Autumn Festival |
| 2026-09-28 | 2026-09-29 LEC 5: Distributed File System | 2026-09-30 | 2026-10-01 National Day break | 2026-10-02 National Day break |
| 2026-10-05 National Day break | 2026-10-06 National Day break Class moved to October 10 (Saturday). | 2026-10-07 National Day break | 2026-10-08 LEC 6: Consistency (slides) | 2026-10-09 |
2026-10-10 (Saturday)Makeup class for October 6 — LEC 7: All-or-nothing atomicity (slides) | ||||
| 2026-10-12 | 2026-10-13 LEC 8: Before-or-after atomicity (slides) | 2026-10-14 | 2026-10-15 LEC 9: More on before-or-after atomicity (slides) | 2026-10-16 |
| 2026-10-19 | 2026-10-20 LEC 10: Multi-site Atomicity and Replication (slides) Lab1: Lab1 DDL: 10.20 23:59 | 2026-10-21 | 2026-10-22 LEC 11: Paxos and Raft (slides) | 2026-10-23 |
| 2026-10-26 | 2026-10-27 LEC 12: (Aside) Put so far together: Spanner (slides) | 2026-10-28 | 2026-10-29 LEC 13: Spanner continued + Mid-term review | 2026-10-30 |
| 2026-11-02 | 2026-11-03 LEC 14: network-link (slides) | 2026-11-04 | 2026-11-05 LEC 15: network-ip (slides) | 2026-11-06 |
| 2026-11-09 | 2026-11-10 LEC 16: network-ip-2 | 2026-11-11 | 2026-11-12 LEC 17: network-end2end | 2026-11-13 |
| 2026-11-16 | 2026-11-17 Midterm exam | 2026-11-18 | 2026-11-19 LEC 18: network-dns-cdn | 2026-11-20 |
| 2026-11-23 | 2026-11-24 LEC 19: RDMA | 2026-11-25 | 2026-11-26 LEC 20: distributed computing | 2026-11-27 |
| 2026-11-30 | 2026-12-01 LEC 21: GPUs and FlashAttention | 2026-12-02 | 2026-12-03 LEC 22: GPUs and MapReduce | 2026-12-04 |
| 2026-12-07 | 2026-12-08 LEC 23: Distributed Training | 2026-12-09 | 2026-12-10 LEC 24: Distributed Training (continued) | 2026-12-11 |
| 2026-12-14 | 2026-12-15 LEC 25: LLM inference | 2026-12-16 | 2026-12-17 LEC 26: Distributed LLM inference | 2026-12-18 |
| 2026-12-21 | 2026-12-22 LEC 27: Security | 2026-12-23 | 2026-12-24 LEC 28: ROP and CFI | 2026-12-25 |
| 2026-12-28 | 2026-12-29 LEC 29: secure data flow | 2026-12-30 | 2026-12-31 LEC 30: Review | 2027-01-01 New Year’s Day |
| 2027-01-04 Final exam week | 2027-01-05 Final exam week | 2027-01-06 Final exam week | 2027-01-07 Final exam week | 2027-01-08 Final exam week |
| 2027-01-11 Final exam week | 2027-01-12 Final exam week | 2027-01-13 Final exam week | 2027-01-14 Final exam week | 2027-01-15 Final exam week |