Lectures: TBA, Synchronous on Zoom Monday and Wednesday 2:30-3:45 PM ET or asynchronous recordings on echo360.
TAs: TBA
Office hours:
Dr. Klemperer: TBA, on Zoom; 1-on-1 by appointment
TAs: TBA: or by appointment
Course syllabus: available on Canvas or by request (pklemperer@umass.edu)
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.
Distributed Systems, 4th Edition, Maarten van Steen and Andrew Tannenbaum (available free)