CS273: Foundations of Parallel and Distributed Systems
INSTRUCTORS:
Satish Rao
(satishr@cs.berkeley.edu)
Office hours (tentative): Tu: 3:30-4:30, Wed: 1-2.
Fundamental theoretical issues in designing parallel algorithms and
architectures and topics in distributed networks. Shared memory models
of parallel computation. Parallel algorithms. Fundamentals of routing
for general networks. Load Balancing and Contention resolution.
Algorithms for object location in distributed networks.
Game theoretic aspects of distributed agents.
Announcements
Revised problem set is up. (April 6th, 2005). New due date is April
15. Even that is flexible.
Administration
Homeworks.
Lecture Notes and/or (required) readings.
Templates and instructions for scribe notes are located here.
Some lecture references.
Useful links.
Previous year's website.