General Course
Information:
Instructor:
Lakshmish Ramaswamy (laks[AT]cs[dot]uga[dot]edu,
706-542-2737)
Time
and Venue: Tuesdays & Thursdays - 12:45 PM to 2:00 PM
(Boyd 306); Wednesdays - 12:40 PM to 1:30 PM (Boyd 306)
Office
Hours (tentative): Tuesday and Thursdays - 12:00 PM to 12:45
PM (via zoom) and by appointment
TA:
TBA
TA Office
Hours: TBA
Course Description:
The
area of distributed computing has seen tremendous developments in
the past few years, and distributed systems have become widely
pervasive. Today's distributed systems range from ad-hoc networks
comprising of mobile devices, to overlay networks such as
peer-to-peer systems, to massive web farms of powerful servers.The
objective of the course is to gain an in-depth knowledge of the
fundamental concepts in distributed systems and to understand the
practical techniques for building distributed systems and
applications.
Course Materials:
Textbook:
-
Distributed
Systems:
Principles and Paradigms, by Tanenbaum & van Steen (Second
edition, Publisher: Prentice Hall, Inc.)
Grading Policy
Programing Projects
|
60%
|
Midterm Exam
|
15%
|
Final Exam
|
20%
|
Homework/Tech Topic Presentation
|
5%
|
Slides:
Will be available on ELC.
Programming Projects
Project
1 -- Due on 02/10/2021, 11:59 PM
Project-2
-- Due on 03/08/2021, 11:59 PM
Project-3
-- Due on 04/06/2021, 11:59 PM
Project-4
-- Due on 04/29/2021, 11:59 PM
Presentation Topics for Graduate
Students (Please contact TA for signing up)
Each presentation is around 15 minutes including QA
- PThreads
--
- Java
Threads --
- DNS
--
- Java RMI
--
- Bloom
Filters --
- Chord
Protocol
- NFS
--
- HTTP
Components --
- XML
--
- SOAP
--
- JSON --
- WSDL
--
- HDFS
--
- Hypervisors
--
- Cloud
Computing --
- Hadoop --
- Apache
Hive --
- Apache
Spark --
- Apache Giraph --
- HBase/Bigtable --
- Cassandra
--
- MongoDB
- Neo4j
- Kubernetes
- Publish-Subscribe
Systems --
- Streams
and Complex Event Processing --
- Edge
computing
- Internet
of Things
Homeworks for Undergraduate
Students (1 HW problem per project group. Please contact the TA
for signing up).
X/Y below indicates the Yth problem in the Xth Chapter of the Tanenabum
& van Steen textbook (2nd Edition)
1/6, 1/9, 3/2, 4/4, 5/2, 5/4, 5/13, 6/1, 6/2, 6/14.
Exam Schedule
Midterm Exam (tentative):
03/11/2021 during class.
Final Exam (as per UGA final
exam schedule): 05/11/2021, 12:00 PM (as per
UGA
final exam schedule).
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