Hajussüsteemid 2018/19 sügis

Distributed Systems

Taught by: Eero Vainikko, Amnir Hadachi, Artjom Lind, Mohan Liyanage

Course moodle pages: https://moodle.ut.ee/course/view.php?id=7615

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The course gives an overview and practical experience in different ways of implementing distributed systems. The subjects include distributed systems terminology and properties, remote procedure systems, distributed object-oriented systems, distributed file systems, synchronization in distributed systems, transactions, time service and programming with threads.

The working language for this course is English.

Course syllabus

1. seminar Week 1: Introducing the project instructions and process
2. lecture Week 1: Introduction to Distributed Systems
3. seminar Week 2: Workshop - Discussion session
4. lecture Week 2: Introduction to networking and UDP
5. seminar Week 3: Project proposal
6. lecture Week 3: Multicast and UDP applications
7. seminar Week 4: Workshop - Discussion session
8. lecture Week 4: TCP Communication in Applications
9. seminar Week 5: Work within groups and consultation
10. lecture Week 5: Threads in Network Applications
11. seminar Week 6: Workshop - Project reports - Discussion session
12. lecture Week 6: Shared State in Distributed Systems
13. seminar Week 7: Workshop - Discussion session
14. lecture Week 7: Remote Procedure Calls; Distributed Objects
15. seminar Week 8: Work within groups and consultation
16. lecture Week 8: Distributed Objects in Applications
17. seminar Week 9: Workshop - Project reports - Discussion session
18. lecture Week 9: Indirect Communication
19. seminar Week 10: Workshop - Discussion session
20. lecture Week 10: Indirect Communication in distributed applications
21. seminar Week 11: Work within groups and consultation
22. lecture Week 11: Introduction to Peer-to-Peer Systems
23. seminar Week 12: Workshop - Project reports - Discussion session
24. lecture Week 12: Peer-to-Peer Systems Applications
25. seminar Week 13: Work within groups and consultation
26. lecture Week 13: Work within groups and consultation
27. seminar Week 14: Work within groups and consultation
28. lecture Week 14: Final demo preparsation; consultation
29. seminar Week 15: Final demo sessions 1 & 3
30. lecture Week 15: Final demo session 2
31. seminar Week 16: Final report preparation
32. lecture Week 16: Final report due