CPSC-662: Distributed Computing Systems: Course Overview, Slides

Introduction to Distributed Systems and Distributed OSs (.pdf)

Definitions

Network OSs vs. distributed OSs

Research and design issues

Interlude 1: Modeling Reliability of Distributed Systems (1) (.pdf)

Definitions

Combinatorial Analysis

Interlude 1.5 and Interlude 2: Modeling Reliability Part II (1) (.pdf)

Combinatorial Analysis (cont)

Markov Modeling

Interlude 2.5: Modeling Reliability Part II (2) (.pdf)

Combinatorial Analysis (cont)

Markov Modeling

Interprocess Communication (.pdf )

IPC primitives

Message passing: issues

Communication schemes

Remote Procedure Calls (.pdf )

The RPC model

Primitives/issues

Case study: Sun RPC

Distributed Object Oriented Technology (.pdf)

Object-oriented programming

Objects in distributed systems

Interlude: P2P systems (.pdf)

Unstructured vs. Structured P2P Systems

Chords/Pastry

CAN

CORBA (.pdf)

Object model

CORBA architecture

CORBA services

Some practical considerations

Distributed Synchronization (.pdf )

Problems in synchronization in distributed systems

Synchronization vs. mutual exclusion

Centralized and distributed synchronization algorithms

Group Communication (.pdf )

Multicast vs. unicast

Multicast communication

Atomic multicast

Virtual Synchrony

ISIS

Limitation of causal and atomic group communication

Whetten's algorithm

Another Case Study: HydraNet-FT (.pdf )

Distributed Shared Memory (.pdf)

Shared memory systems

Consistency models

Distributed shared memory

DSM Case Study: Java/DSM (.pdf)

DSM Case Study: MultiJav (.pdf)

Naming (.pdf )

Overview

DNS

Atomic Transactions (.pdf )

The transaction model, ACID properties

Primitives

Implementations: 2-phase locking, timestamp-based.

Distributed File Systems (.pdf

File system services

Issues in distributed file systems

Sun NFS

Coda

Large-Scale Computing: Systems

WebOS (.pdf

Legion (.pdf

Globe (.pdf