Lecture Notes

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Week Mondays Notes
1 04/03 Course introduction and logistics

Readings: Why the future of financial markets is in the cloud
2 04/10 Lecture 2: Fairness + Time Perimeters

Reading papers: CloudEx-HotOS'21
Huygens-NSDI'18
3 04/17 Guest Lecture Huygens
CloudEx Lecture
"AI in Fintech" is approaching (May 5th), students can register for free here
4 04/24 Consequences of Clock Sync, Part 1
-- Network congestion reconstruction from edge measurements
-- Congestion and packet loss elimination
Reading paper: Simon-NSDI'19
OnRamp-NSDI'21
5 05/01 Consequences of Clock Sync, Part 2

-- Completion of congestion and packet loss elimination ----->Applications for training Ai and Large Language Models

--Nezha: Fault-tolerant consensus protocol
Reading paper: Nezha-VLDB'23
6 05/08 Guest lecture: Chicago Mercantile Exchange
Lecture video: CME Lecture
7 05/15 Guest lecture: Wells Fargo
8 05/22 Guest lecture: IMC
8 05/29 Memorial Day---no class
9 06/05 Guest lecture: CoinBase
Course Wrap-Up