CPSC-662: Distributed Computing Systems: Course Overview, Slides

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Introduction to Distributed Systems and Distributed OSs (.ps ,.pdf ,html )

Definitions

Network OSs vs. distributed OSs

Research and design issues

Interprocess Communication (.ps ,.pdf ,html )

IPC primitives

Message passing: issues

Communication schemes

Remote Procedure Calls (.ps ,.pdf ,html )

The RPC model

Primitives/issues

Case study: Sun RPC

Distributed Synchronization (.ps ,.pdf ,html )

Problems in synchronization in distributed systems

Synchronization vs. mutual exclusion

Centralized and distributed synchronization algorithms

Group Communication 1 (.ps ,.pdf )

Multicast vs. unicast

Multicast communication

Atomic multicast

Group Communication 2 (.ps ,.pdf ,html )

Virtual Synchrony

ISIS

Limitation of causal and atomic group communication

Whetten's algorithm

Distributed Shared Memory (.ps ,.pdf)

Shared memory systems

Consistency models

Distributed shared memory

Atomic Transactions (.ps ,.pdf ,html )

The transaction model, ACID properties

Primitives

Implementations: 2-phase locking, timestamp-based.

Distributed File Systems (.ps ,.pdf ,html)

File system services

Issues in distributed file systems

Sun NFS

AFS

Distributed Object Oriented Technology (.ps ,.pdf ,html)

Distributed Object Oriented Technology 2 (.ps ,.pdf ,html)

Object-oriented programming

Objects in distributed systems

CORBA (.ps ,.pdf)

CORBA 2 (.ps ,.pdf)

Object model

CORBA architecture

CORBA services

Some practical considerations

Large-Scale Computing: Systems

WebOS (.ps ,.pdf ,.html)

Legion (.ps ,.pdf ,.html)

Globe (.ps ,.pdf ,.html)