UNSW Handbook Course - Distributed Systems

Distributed Systems - COMP9243


	Faculty: Faculty of Engineering
	School: School of Computer Science and Engineering
	Contact: Bond,James
	Campus: Kensington Campus
	Career: Undergraduate
	Units of Credit: 6
	Contact Hours per Week: 3
	Enrolment Requirements:
	Prerequisite: COMP3231 or COMP9201, COMP3331 or COMP9331.
	Offered: Session One
	Fee Band: 2

Description

A detailed coverage of distributed systems, with a particular focus on operating systems issues: client-server paradigm, remote-procedure call as OS support for client-server; distributed shared memory, distributed memory coherency; distributed file systems; distributed process management, including load sharing and process migration; concurrency control; fault tolerance, recoverability and distributed transactions; naming; industry standards; case studies.

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