Distributed Systems (600.437, 600.337)
Course description for Fall 2000:
Distributed Systems and Environments
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The course teaches how to design and implement efficient tools,
protocols and systems in a distributed environment.
The course tries to give some hands-on experience as well as some
theoretical background.
The programming assignments and the project in the course can be
done in either C/C++ or Java. These assignments will use a cluster
of workstations as well as several software research tools.
Prerequisite:
Intermediate programming course
and Data Structures ( 600.226 )
Click here for the course official page. Both pages should be current in terms of slides.
Lectures of the Distributed Systems course (Fall 2000):
Introduction, (also available as
PostScript)
Basic communication protocols, (also available as
PostScript)
Synchronized consensus models, (also available as
PostScript) updated after the tutorial.
Multicast protocols, (also available as
PostScript)
Group communication, (also available as
PostScript)
Asynchronous consensus models, (also available as
PostScript)
Distributed operating systems, (also available as
PostScript)
Distributed transactions, (also available as
PostScript)
Replication, (also available as
PostScript)
Distributed Objects, (also available as
PostScript)
Old lectures of the Distributed Systems course (Fall 1999):
Communication and Knowledge, (also available as
PostScript)
Security, (also available as
PostScript)
Lectures we no longer teach:
Clock synchronization, (also available as
PostScript)