Course Objectives

The objective of this course is to understand the broad range of issues that underlie large-scale distributed systems. This course will cover the following broad areas:

• Evolutionary forces that fuel the growth of  large-scale distributed systems. 

• Computational economics in distributed computing

• Storage and fault tolerance in large scale systems

• Virtualization techniques and strategies

• Programming models for cloud computing
  (a) Map Reduce (b) Data flow graphs

• Data structures for large scale computing

Shrideep Pallickara

Office: Room 346, CS Building

Office Hours: 3:15-5:00 pm Thursday

E-mail: shrideep {aT} cs.colostate.edu
          (with the obvious change)

Tel:     970.492.4209

2:00-3:15 pm (TTh)

Computer Science Bldg Room 425