4005-730 Distributed Systems

Term:	20102
Times:	12:00 - 1:50pm MW
Room:	70-2690

Last Updated 2011/02/09 15:44:21

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What's New

2011/02/09:
- As discussed in class today, I have modified the team project specification to include a requirement for peer and self evaluations.
2011/01/24:
- Project 2 has been posted.
2010/12/15:
- Project 1 has been posted.
2010/12/08:
- I've sent a test message to my mailing list for this course. The list contains everyone's CS email address. You should find a copy in your incoming CS email, or wherever you forward your CS email to (if you have set up email forwarding). If you don't receive the test message, please let me know.
2010/11/27:
- Welcome back to RIT!

Description

An introduction to the study of distributed systems. The course covers distributed system architectures such as client-server and peer-to-peer, distributed system design issues such as communication, fault tolerance, coordination and deadlock, distributed system middleware such as remote method invocation (rmi) and tuple space, and the theory of distributed algorithms such as logical clocks and leader election. Programming projects are required.

Instructor

Name:	Warren R. Carithers
Office:	3617 Golisano (70-3617)
Phone:	(585) 475-5393
Email:	wrc AT cs.rit.edu

Syllabi

4005-730 Syllabus

Course Contents

Below is a tentative topic sequence for the quarter. This will be updated as the quarter progresses, as needed, to reflect any changes in topic sequence.

Week	Date	Optional Readings	Topics	Events
1	11/29		Introduction; overview
1	12/01	TvS: 1, 2, 3, 4	Module 1: Fundamentals (part one)
2	12/06		Class cancelled
2	12/08		Module 1: Fundamentals (part two)	Team formation due
3	12/13	TvS: 10	Module 2: Distributed Object Systems
3	12/15	TvS: 10	Module 2: Distributed Object Systems Grid Computing System version 1	Project 1 assigned
4	01/03	TvS: 13.2	Module 3: Tuple Spaces Grid Computing System version 2 Grid Computing System version 3
4	01/05		Team presentation #1
5	01/10	TvS: 7, 8	Module 4: Fault Tolerance
5	01/12	TvS: 6.3	Module 5: Coordination
6	01/17	TvS: 5	Module 6: Service Discovery
6	01/19	TvS: 2.2.2, 5.2	Module 7: P2P and Serverless Systems	Project 1 due Sunday 01/23
7	01/24		Team presentation #2 (part 1: teams 1-4)	Project 2 assigned
7	01/26		Team presentation #2 (part 2: teams 5-8)
8	01/31	TvS: 2.2.2, 5.2	Grid Computing System version 4 Grid Computing System version 5 Grid Computing System version 6
8	02/02		Team presentation #3 (part 1: teams 1-4)
9	02/07	TvS: 6	Module 8: Distributed Algorithms
9	02/09		Team presentation #3 (part 2: teams 5-8)	Project 2 due Sunday 02/13
10	02/14		Team presentation #4 (part 1: teams 1-4)
10	02/16		Team presentation #4 (part 2: teams 5-8)	Team materials for all teams due Sunday 02/20
11		Final exam: Due electronically by 11:59pm on Friday, February 25, 2011.