CS 603: Advanced Topics in Distributed Systems

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CS 603 Advanced Topics inDistributed Systems

• Spring 2002
• Professor Chris Clifton

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CS 603 Spring 2002

• Course Goal Be able to understand and develop
  distributed computing systems
• Build Distributed Systems that are
• correctly functioning
• performance-oriented
• reliable and
• secure
• Design principles of distributed systems and
  their application to the modern networked
  environment
• Understand fundamental distributed systems theory
• Develop for web-based environments using tools
  such as Java and XML

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• Course Topics
• Principles of naming and location
• Atomicity
• Resource sharing
• Concurrency control / synchronization
• Deadlock detection and avoidance
• Distributed data access and control
• Distributed systems design
• Consistency control
• Fault tolerance

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• Course Topics (cont.)
• Communication Mechanisms and Protocols
• TCP/IP
• ODBC/JDBC/DCOMM/etc.
• Middleware (e.g., CORBA)
• Networked file systems
• Replication and distributed caching
• Distributed application security

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• Grading
• Midterm Exam 25
• Session ?
• Final Exam 35
• comprehensive
• Projects (4-5) 40(includes programming and
  analysis/design components)

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• Contact Information
• Chris Clifton
• clifton_at_cs.purdue.edu
• Course Link
• www.cs.purdue.edu/clifton/cs603