Course Desciption

Course description and syllabus.

Text Book:

Distributed Systems: Concepts and Design (4th Edition)
(International Computer Science Series)
by Jean Dollimore, Tim Kindberg , George Coulouris

Addison Wesley; 4 edition (May 20, 2005) Language: English
ISBN-13: 978-0321263544

Lecture Materials:

It is assumed that the following course material is being made available to students of SUNY at Buffalo for use in the courses offered by the Department of Computer Science.
They are meant for instructional use only.

Date

Topic

Reading material

Notes/comments

1/14

Intrduction to distributed systems; First day handout

Ch.6, 7

Stankovic's Paper

1/16

Still Introduction to DS;

pdf  ppt

 

1/18

System models

Ch.1

We are yet to start this (1/22)

1/22

RMI based Distributed systems demo

 

demo artifacts

1/28

Project 1 Discussion

Prj1: RMI-WS-DS

 

1/30

More on RMI-DS and RMI Internals

RMS-DS-Internals

 

2/4

RMI Internal and Intro to WS

RMI2WS

 

2/11

Introduction to WS-based Distributed System

DSWS

 

2/13

Working with WS: develop and deploy

Demo details

Oracle driver

2/20

Internetworking

RIP

 

2/25

Bluetooth Protocol and Architecture

BT

 

2/27

Security Model

RSA-PKI

 

2/29

Storage Virtualization

 

 

3/7

Project 2: Mashup Server

Prj2

 

3/17

Distributed File system

DFS

 

3/21

Exam review

MTReview

 

3/24

Midterm

 

 

3/26

No lecture

PLEASE attend grad conference

 

3/28

Peer to Peer guest lecture

 

 

3/31

Large scale distributed computing

LG

Fusion Laboratory Grid HPC

4/2

Project 2 status?

PRJ2Guideline

 

4/11

Peer to Peer Network

P2P

Dr. Bernard Chazell's  Talk

4/15

 

Notes on Pastry

A nice publication on P2P

4/18

Final Exam Review

FR

 

 

Failure management in WS

Epidemic Model

 

4/23

Epidemic model

FM Gossip

 

 

Project 2 Report

 

Due on final exam day

 

Important Announcements: Midterm exam moved to 3/24

Recitations

Recitations start next week: 1/28: Netbeans demo, basics of RMI
2/4: XML feed paring
2/10: WS basics and how to design , deploy and invoke WS?
2/17: Oracle and persistence model
2/24: Complete project

Office Hours

Name

Office Hours

Location

Bina Ramamurthy

Mon,  Fri: 10.00-11.30AM

127 Bell

Tam Nguyen (Tam)

Tue: 9.00AM -12.00PM

Trailer E 17

Jia Zhao (Jason)

Fri: 2.00-5.00PM

Trailer B 16