Instructor: Peter F. Klemperer, pklemperer@umass.edu

• Lectures: TBA, on Zoom

• Course web page: https://sites.google.com/umass.edu/compsci-677-fall-2022/home 

• TAs: TBA

• Office hours:

  • Dr. Klemperer: TBA, on Zoom; 1-on-1 by appointment

  • TAs: by appointment; also available before and after labs

• Piazza: 

• Course syllabus: https://sites.google.com/umass.edu/compsci-677-fall-2022/syllabus/syllabus 

Course Overview 

This course provides an in-depth examination of the principles of distributed systems and advanced concepts in operating systems. Covered topics include client-server programming, distributed scheduling, virtualization, cloud computing, distributed storage, security in distributed systems, distributed middleware, ubiquitous computing, and applications such as the Internet of Things, Web and peer-to-peer systems. Prerequisites: Students should be able to easily program in a high-level language such as Java, C++ or Python, 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., COMPSCI 377) will be helpful but not required.

Required Text 

See reading list in the syllabus.