CS4513 Distributed Computing Systems

Introductory Course Materials

• Course Syllabus.
• Homework Grading Policy.
• Group Evaluation Form.

Course Assistance/Office Hours

• CS4513_TA mailing list to Professor and Teaching Assistants
• Prof. Wills: FL-236 Tue 10:00--11:00, Thu 1:00--3:00
• Jae Chung: Tue 3:00--4:30, Wed 11:00--12:30
• Hariharan Kannan: Mon 5:30--7:00, Wed 5:30--7:00

Fossil Lab

Assignments

• Project 0.
• Research Report (for BS/MS students only).
• Project 1.
• Project 2.
• Project 3.

Course Notes

• File Systems.
• Physical Representation of Files.
• Windows OS File Systems.
• Unix File System.
• Distributed Systems.
• Communication.
• Sun RPC.
• Java RMI.
• Distributed File Systems.
• Distributed Processing.
• Synchronization.
• Distributed Computing Environment.
• Distributed Objects.
• Web as a Distributed System.

Exams

Old Midterm Exam for Course D00 (PostScript original) . Old Midterm Exam for Course D00 (html rendering) .

List of expectations for Final Exam.

Old Final Exam for Course D00 (PostScript original) . Old Final Exam for Course D00 (html rendering) .