Course Desciption

Description and  Syallabus  (.pdf)

Lecture Material

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
8/29
Introduction to Reliable Distributed Systems
First day handout
Tacoma Narrows bridge failure
8/31
Distributed Systems
(.ppt)


RMI-based Client-server system
(.ppt)(.pdf)
Code bundle for RMI Application
9/2
Fundamental of Distributed Systems
Chap 1 (.ppt)

9/7
 Communication basics
Chap 2 (.ppt)
Tomcat/JWSDP Installation Handout; Project space has been allocated: see /projects/Fall_2005/username
9/9
Continued Communication basics


9/12
Name Service
Chap.3 (.ppt)


Introduction to Web Services
O'Reilly' and Sun's
O'Reilly's WS Primer; Sun's WS Tutorial
9/14
Project 1 Discussion
Project 1 Handout
Supplements: XML Parser Handout
Oracle DBMS CSE help page
9/16
Intro to Web Services and Ant Tool
(.ppt)(.pdf)

9/19
Remote Procedure Call and Performance Improvements
(.ppt)(.pdf)

9/21
Design of File Server: NFS
(.ppt)(.pdf)
stateless server vs. stateful
9/26
More on Web Services
(.ppt)(.pdf)
More on statelessness of NFS: RFC; NYU notes
9/28
Understadning UDDI
UDDI; UDDI and WDSL

10/3
Introduction to Grid Computing
(.ppt)(.pdf)

10/5
working with CSE Globus Grid
(.doc)(.pdf)

10/7
Globus Core architecture;
Programmer's Guide
User's Guide
Globus Core MyNotes

10/10
Review for midterm;
Project documentation guideline


10/12
SotoMayor's GT3 Tutorial


10/17
The Anatomy of the Grid
Physiology of the grid
Mynotes

10/17
Project 2 discussion
(.doc)(.pdf)

10/19
Application for Grid Computing
Magnetic Fusion Grid

10/21
Project 2 discussion
Grid Security Infrastructure
MyNotes

10/30
Exam1 Questions
(.doc)(.pdf)

11/2
Fault Models  Ch.13,14
(.ppt)(.pdf)
Byzantine Generals Problem;
11/4
Group Membership
(.ppt)(.pdf)
Ch.15
11/7
WS-Membership
Paper
MyNotes
11/11-13
Project 3 Discussion
(.doc)(.pdf)

11/16
Retrofitting Reliability into Complex Systems
Mynotes
Ch.20
11/30
WSRF, GT4, WSRF.NET
GT4 Tutorial

12/7
P2P and other models
MyNotes
Ch,25
12/9
Final Exam Review
(.ppt)

Office Hours

Name
Office Hours
Location
Bina Ramamurthy
M: 10.00-11.30AM
W: 11.00-12.30PM
127 Bell
Mohit Devnani (mdevnani)
MTh: 3.00-4.00PM
329 Bell