CS 455 - Introduction to Distributed Systems

Distributed systems including model of distributed computations; concurrency; thread pools and scalable servers; distributed mutual exclusion; cloud computing; distributed graph algorithms; data representation formats; atomic transactions; large-scale storage systems; distributed shared memory; and overlays.
Must register for lecture and laboratory. CS majors and minors only.

The subject matter covered in this course will reference several textbooks and papers. There are two optional textbooks for this course.
Distributed Systems: Principles and Paradigms. Andrew S. Tanenbaum and Maarten van Steen. 2nd Edition. Prentice Hall. ISBN: 0132392275/978-0132392273.
Distributed Systems: Concepts and Design. George Coulouris, Jean Dollimore, Tim Kindberg, Gordon Blair. 5th Edition. Addison Wesley. ISBN: 978-0132143011