Welcome to Distributed Systems CS495 Distributed Systems Fabin
Welcome to Distributed Systems CS-495 Distributed Systems Fabián E. Bustamante, Winter 2004
Welcome to Distributed Systems Everything you need to know www. cs. northwestern. edu/~fabianb/classes/cs-495 -w 04. html Your instructor: Fabián Bustamante Your TA: Stefan Birrer Communication channels: – Course webpage – Blackboard for discussions – Cs-495 -ds@cs for other questions CS-495 Distributed Systems 2
Materials Distributed Systems: Principles and Paradigms. , Andrew S. Tanenbaum and Maarten van Steen, Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River, NJ, 2002. Papers: A set of papers that will be made available. CS-495 Distributed Systems 3
Approach Lecture – 20 -25’ 2 x 30’ paper presentation – 20’ presentation – 10’ discussion Project – Group of 2+ – Some ideas will be posted Take-home exam CS-495 Distributed Systems 4
Outline Introduction (1/6 -1/8) Wide-area distributed systems and Planet. Lab (Date TBD Communication (1/13 -1/15 Processes (1/20 -1/22) Naming (1/27) Synchronization (1/29 -2/3) Consistency and replication (2/5 -2/10) Fault tolerance (2/12 -2/17) Security (2/19 -2/24) Review of major distributed systems paradigms (2/26 -3/4) Project presentations (3/9 -3/11) Take-home exam (3/16) CS-495 Distributed Systems 5
Grading Project 40% Class participation 10% In class presentation 15% Final – take-home – exam 35% CS-495 Distributed Systems 6
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