CMPSCI 677 Online Enrollment Form
Course Description: This course provides an in-depth examination of the principles of distributed systems in general, and distributed operating systems in particular. Covered topics include processes and threads, concurrent programming, distributed interprocess communication, distributed process scheduling, virtualization, distributed file systems, security in distributed systems, distributed middleware and applications such as the web and peer-to-peer systems. Some coverage of operating system principles for multiprocessors will also be included. A brief overview of advanced topics such as cloud computing, green computing, and mobile computing will be provided, time permitting.
Prerequisites: Students should be able to easily program in a high-level language such as C, have had a course on data structures, be familiar with elements of computer architecture and have had previous exposure to the operating system concepts of processes, virtual memory, and scheduling. A previous course on uniprocessor operating systems (e.g., CMPSCI 377) will be helpful but not required.
Online Section: Two sections of this class will be offered for credit: a regular classroom section and an online section. Students in both sections will be given the same homeworks, labs and exams. The only difference is that students in the online section (Section 2) will receive the lectures via online video.
Course Information:
Instructor: Prashant Shenoy
Teaching assistant: Manjunath Narayana
Online section assistant: Sean Barker
Classroom section: CS Bldg 140, MW 9:05-10:20am
Online section: Lectures delivered via online video
Section 1 (classroom): 24680
Section 2 (online): 25455
Credits: 3
Online Registration: If you are interested in registering for the online section of the course, fill out and submit the registration form below.