Distributed and Parallel Systems

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  Course Code  :        CC 755

  Course Title    :        Distributed and Parallel Systems

  Credit Hours   :        3

   

  Course Description

  This course studies the fundamental aspects of distributed systems and applications. Early foundations and recent developments in distributed systems will be investigated. Both client-server and peer-to-peer application designs will be discussed. Other topics include sockets, reliability, replication, group membership protocols, clock synchronization, and logical timestamps.

   

  Course Objectives

  To introduce the students to the studies of distributed and parallel systems.

   

  Marking Scheme

  Midterm  20%

  Seminar  20%

  Project  30%

  Final  30%

  TextBook:

  Andrew S. Tanenbaum,  Maarten van Steen, Distributed Systems: Principles and Paradigms (Second Edition), Prentice Hall, 2006

  Ajay D. Kshemkalyani, Mukesh Singhal, Distributed Computing: Principles, Algorithms, and Systems, CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2008

  Roger Wattenhofer, Principles of Distributed Computing, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Spring 2015

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  Week 1: Distributed Architectures & Challenges

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  Week 2: Basics Review: Software Engineering, Operating Systems, Networks, Communication & Naming

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  Week 5: Replication & Fault tolerance

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  Week 10: Midterm & MPI II

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  Week 13: Map Reduce & Hadoop

  P.S. Hadoop can be installed on Windows Azure & Windows Server (here):

  • MySpace released their .NET MapReduce framework, Qizmt, 
  • Microsoft dropped its alternative (Dryad) in favor of Hadoop.
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