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Distributed Systems - COMP9243
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Faculty: Faculty of Engineering
 
 
School:  School of Computer Science and Engineering
 
 
Course Outline: www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~cs9243
 
 
Campus: Kensington Campus
 
 
Career: Undergraduate
 
 
Units of Credit: 6
 
 
EFTSL: 0.12500 (more info)
 
 
Indicative Contact Hours per Week: 3
 
 
Enrolment Requirements:
 
 
Prerequisite: COMP3231 or COMP3891, COMP3331 or COMP3931 or TELE3018.
 
 
Fee Band: 2 (more info)
 
 
Further Information: See Class Timetable
 
 

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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