Overview
Description
This is an upper-undergraduate level course on distributed system
class. The goal of this course is to study the fundamentals of
distributed systems, and synthesize the design principles for building
large scale computational systems.
Prerequisites
Either EE 122 or CS 162 is required. You should know C or Java, data
structures, computer algorithms, and basic probability (means,
standard deviations, etc.). The TA will spend very little time
reviewing material that is not specific to this course. We
assume that you either know the material that is supposed to be
covered in those courses, or that you are willing to learn the
material as necessary. We will not cover any of this material in
lecture.
Textbooks
Required textbook:
Computing Facilities
All students enrolled in the class will be given an instructional
account, xxx. Account forms will be handed out at the end of
the first lecture (if you did not receive an account form, see your
TA). Most of
the Unix systems should have cross-mounted file systems, so you should
actually be able to work on most of the EECS Unix systems. Your final
run
for each assignment must be done under that account, and must run on
x86
Solaris machines.