CS555: Distributed Systems [Fall 2012]

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CS555 covers the fundamentals of modern distributed systems. The course examines issues related to data dissemination and discovery, safety and correctness, scaling, security and trust, distributed transactions, resiliency to failures, file systems and data intensive computing. The course explores how to design synchronous and asynchronous distributed systems that do not have race conditions, and can sustain failures and certain classes of denial of service attacks. The course will also cover several aspects of cloud computing such as computational economics, programming models, file systems, and virtualization.

Course Objectives
By the end of the course, students should be able to build distributed systems that:

Scale as the number of entities in the system increase
Can sustain failures and recover from them
Work with distributed, fault tolerant file systems
Can handle and process large data volumes
Are secure and handle certain classes of distributed denial of service attacks
Are Loosely coupled, transactional and eventually stable

Extensive experimentation through programming assignments in Java is a principal activity of this course. These assignments will focus on developing skills that are immediately transferrable to building real-world systems.

Instructor		Lecture Coordinates
	Shrideep Pallickara Office: Room 346, Computer Science Office Hours: 9:15-11:15 am F or by appointment E-mail: shrideep {aT} cs.colostate.edu (with the obvious change) Tel: 970.492.4209		TTH (9:30 - 10:45 AM): CSB 325