DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS (2 SCU)

Learning Outcomes:

Upon successful completion of this course, students are expected to be able to recognize the fundamental principles of distributed systems and distributed computing including cloud computing systems; recognize key characteristics of distributed systems such as resource sharing, openness, concurrency, scalability, fault tolerance and transparency; apply distributed operating system, distributed file and database system; recognize the basic design issues(naming, communications, software structure, workload allocation and consistency maintenance) based on key design goals (high performance, reliability, scalability, consistency and security); and designing a creative Distributed System project with regard to distributed system concept and system specification required.

Topics:

This course is designed to introduce the principles of Distributed Systems. The most important principles covered in class are communication, processes, naming, synchronization, consistency and replication, fault tolerance, and security. Cloud Computing systems today, whether open-source or used inside companies, are built using a common set of core techniques, algorithms, and design philosophies—all centered on distributed systems. Students learn about such fundamental distributed computing “concepts” for Cloud Computing. This course covers Internet technology and network-based computing systems, including Clouds, clusters, datacenters, grids/P2P, and the ‘Internet of Things’ (IoT).

Prerequisite(s): None