CSCI 325 - Distributed Systems

Credits: 4
Planned Offering: Spring 2013 and alternate years.

Prerequisite: CSCI 209 or instructor consent. In this course, students learn to design and develop distributed systems, i.e., collections of independent networked computers that function as single coherent systems. The concepts of communication, synchronization, consistency, replication, fault tolerance, and security are covered. In addition, case studies of real-world distributed systems (e.g., the Internet, distributed file systems, grid computing) are analyzed. Sprenkle.