CS555: Distributed Systems

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Prerequisites Instructor
 

Graduate students do not have any prerequisites for this course.

Undergraduate students need to have a B or better in CS455. A grade of A- or better in CS457 would also be acceptable.

 

  Shrideep Pallickara
Office: Room 364, CS Building
Office Hours: 9:00-10:00 am Friday
E-mail: cs555 {aT} cs.colostate.edu
(with the obvious change)
Tel: 970.492.4209


Readings and Texts:
There is no textbook for this course. But the subject matter covered in this course will reference several textbooks and papers.

  • Distributed Systems: Principles and Paradigms. Andrew S. Tanenbaum and Maarten van Steen. 2nd Edition. Prentice Hall. ISBN: 0132392275/978-0132392273.
  • Distributed Computing: Principles, Algorithms, and Systems. Ajay Kshemkalyani and Mukesh Singhal. 1st edition. Cambridge University Press. ISBN: 0521876346/ 978-0521876346
  • Java Concurrency in Practice. Brian Goetz, Tim Peierls, Joshua Bloch, Joseph Bowbeer, David Holmes, and Doug Lea. Addison-Wesley Professional. ISBN: 0321349601/978-0321349606.
  • Distributed Algorithms. Nancy Lynch. 1st edition. Morgan Kaufman. ISBN: 1558603484/978-1558603486.
  • Cloud Application Architectures: Building Applications and Infrastructure in the Cloud. George Reese.1st edition. O'Reilly. ISBN: 0596156367/978-0596156367.
  • Computer Networks: A Systems Approach. Larry Peterson and Bruce Davie. 4th edition. Morgan Kaufmann. ISBN: 978-0-12-370548-8.
  • Practical Cryptography. Niels Ferguson and Bruce Schneier. 1st edition. Wiley Publishing. ISBN: 0-471-22894-X/0-471-22357-3.
  • Cryptography and Network Security: Principles and Practice. William Stallings. 5th Edition. Prentice Hall. ISBN: 0136097049/978-0136097044
  • Unix Systems Programming. Kay Robbins & Steve Robbins, 2nd edition. Prentice Hall. ISBN: 978-0-13-042411-2.
  • Operating Systems Concepts. Avi Silberschatz, Peter Galvin, Greg Gagne. 8th edition. John Wiley & Sons, Inc. ISBN-13: 978-0-470-12872-5.

 

Conduct
All students are expected to be familiar with the policies in the department's student information sheet available here.

This course will adhere to the CSU Academic Integrity Policy as found in the General Catalog and the Student Conduct Code. At a minimum, violations will result in a grading penalty in this course and a report to the Office of Conflict Resolution and Student Conduct Services.





Late Submission of Assignments

All assignments are due at 5:00 PM on the due date. There is a late penalty of 7.5% per-day for up to a maximum of 2 days. We will rely on an honor system: please do not make changes after this point. Submissions will include the source code and supporting documentation for how to execute the programs.








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