Lectures 1 and 2

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Lectures 1 and 2

• Network Centric Computing
• Administrative Issues.
• The projects http//www.cs.ucf.edu/dcm

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Network Centric Computing

• What does it mean?
• Why is it feasible?
• What are the advantages?
• The buzzwords
• - network aware computing
• - nomadic computing
• - information grids

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Related Fields

• Communication how to transport information.
• Information Theory.
• Computer Networks how to link computers to one
  another.
• Operating Systems how to integrate seamlessly
  networking functions.
• Distributed Systems how to carry out tasks using
  interconnected computers.
• Performance Evaluation (analytical modeling,
  measurements, and simulation)
• Artificial Intelligence.

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Technological breakthroughs

• 1980s microprocessors
• 1990s fiber optics storage technology and
  communication technology .
• This decade
• Sensors
• Wireless Communication

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The science of building complex systems

• New models of computing
• Time
• Physical awareness
• Hybrid systems analog and digital systems
• Embedded systems
• In 1997 4.4 billion MPUs and MCUs 98 of them
  used in embedded systems !!!
• Between 1994 and 2004 the need for embedded
  systems will increase 100 fold !!!

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Middleware for Network Centric Computing

• The Open Data Network Model.
• Coordination Services.

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Coordination Space

• Why is coordination
• Important
• Challenging?

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