CTIS 490 DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS

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CTIS 490DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS

• Instructor Beyhan AKPORAY
• Tel [phone]
• E-Mail bakporay_at_bilkent.edu.tr
• Office Hours Tuesday 1030 - 1130
• Friday 930 - 1030
• Teaching Assistant Ceren Alparslan
• Email cserim_at_bilkent.edu.tr

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OBJECTIVE

• This course covers the fundamentals of
  distributed systems.
• A distributed system is a collection of
  independent computers that appears to its users a
  single coherent system.
• There are two parts
• Principles
• Paradigms

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PRINCIPLES

• The concepts studied are
• Architectures
• Processes
• Communication
• Naming
• Synchronization
• Consistency Replication
• Fault tolerance
• Security

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PARADIGMS

• Object-Based Systems
• File Systems
• Web-Based Systems
• Coordination-Based Systems

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Grading

• 3 Assignments 30
• Closed-book Midterm 35
• Closed-book Final 35

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REFERENCE MATERIAL

• Course materials will be supplied by the
  Instructor on web http//www.bilkent.edu.tr/bakpo
  ray/ctis490
• (Students should check the web site and their
  email accounts to follow-up course changes)
• IEEE Computer Society Distributed Systems Online
• http//dsonline.computer.org/portal/site/dsonline
  /index.jsp

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RECOMMENDED TEXTBOOKS
Distributed Systems Principles and Paradigms
(2nd Edition) (Hardcover) by Andrew S. Tanenbaum,
Maarten van Steen, Prentice Hall 2 edition
(October 2, 2006) ISBN 0132392275
You can subscribe it from www.safarix.com Subscri
ption Price USD 54.00 Subscription Period 150
days
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RECOMMENDED TEXTBOOKS
Distributed Systems Concepts and Design (4th
Edition) (International Computer Science)
(Hardcover) by Coulouris, Jean Dollimore, Tim
Kindberg, Addison Wesley, ISBN0321263545