University of Washington, Bothell Computing & Software Systems
Catalog Description
This course introduces the concepts and design of distributed
computing systems. Topics covered include message passing, remote
procedure calls, process management, migration, mobile agents,
distributed coordination, distributed shared memory, distributed file
systems, fault tolerance, and grid computing.
The first five weeks focus on the basic mechanism and the Java
programming techniques for message passing, process management,
and migration. We will use Java sockets, MPI: Message Passing
Interface, Java RMI, and UWAgent: a Java-based mobile agent
system the professor and his former CSS students have designed.
The last five weeks discuss advanced topics, where the
instructor will overview each topic and students will review a
topic-related research paper in the class.
