CMPSCI 677: Distributed Operating Systems Syllabus
Fall 2003 Course Information
Instructor:
Prashant Shenoy
Office: Room 336, Computer Science Bldg
Phone: (413) 577 0850
Fax: (413) 545 1249
Email: shenoy@cs.umass.edu
Contents:
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, shared virtual memory, 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 multimedia
operating systems, real-time operating systems and mobile computing
will be provided, time permitting.
Teaching assistant: Purushottam Kulkarni
Email: purukulk [at] cs.umass.edu
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.
Course Materials:
- Recommended Texts:
-
Distributed Systems: Principles and Paradigms
Andrew Tannenbaum and Maarten van Steen, Prentice Hall, 2001
This is the text book for the course.
-
Distributed Systems, 2nd edition
Sape Mullender, Addison Wesley, 1993
This is a supplementary text.
- Assigned readings from papers, magazines, manuals, and the
WWW; this material will be placed on
reserve in the Physical Sciences library, and made
avilable to off campus students.
- Course home page: All course materials (handouts, lecture notes,
homeworks, assignments and solutions) will be posted on the course
home page at
http://lass.cs.umass.edu/~shenoy/courses/677vip
As the semester goes along, the site will fill up with
lots of useful other information, pointers to other sites, etc.
Please make sure you check out and use this site frequently.
Off-campus students: Since all materials are available online,
additonal hard copies of class lectures will not sent to you.
- Mailing list:
A broadcast class email address, cs677vip@cs.umass.edu, has
been created. If you send mail to this address, it will be broadcast
to the 40 or so students in the class,
so please use it wisely and carefully. I will use
it to broadcast information of interest to
everyone. You might want to use it to broadcast a question, or
give a pointer to
material that you think will be of general interest.
Coursework
- Assigned readings: weekly
- Class participation/discussions:5% of the final grade
(does not apply to off-campus students)
- Homeworks: 4-5 homeworks, 20% of the final grade
- Programming assignments: 3-4 programming assignments, 35% of the final
grade.
- Exams:One midterm and one final, 40% of the final grade
Copyright notice:
Many of the materials created for this course are the intellectual
property of the instructor. This includes, but is not limited to, the
syllabus, lectures and course notes. Except to the extent not protected
by copyright law, any use, distribution or sale of such materials
requires the permission of the instructor. Please be aware that it is
a violation of university policy to reproduce, for distribution or sale,
class lectures or class notes, unless copyright has been explicitly waived
by the faculty member.
This page is online at http://lass.cs.umass.edu/~shenoy/courses/677vip/syllabus.html
Prashant Shenoy
Last modified: Thu Sep 4 12:17:41 EDT 2003