COMP3050 - Distributed Computing Systems

Lecturer: Joseph Kee-Yin NG
Telephone: 3411-7864
Facsimile: 3411-7892
Office: R730, Run Run Shaw Building
E-mail: jng@comp.hkbu.edu.hk

Teaching Assistant: None
Class Schudule:
Mon 12:30 - 13:20 WLB203
Tue 09:30 - 11:20 LT2
Supplementary Materials:
Slides Description
Chapter #0 Course Outline
Chapter #1 Introduction
Chapter #2 Architectures
Chapter #3 Processes
Chapter #4 Communication
Chapter #5 Naming (skip)
Chapter #6 Synchronization
Chapter #7 Consistency and Replication
Chapter #8 Fault Tolerance
Chapter #9 Security (skip)
Chapter #10 Distributed Object-based Systems (skip)
Chapter #11 Distributed File Systems
Chapter #12 Distributed Web-based Systems
Chapter #13 Distributed Coordination-based Systems (skip)
Major Teaching Materials:
NotesDescription
Class Notes #1 Introduction
Class Notes #2 Client/Sever Model & RPC
Class Notes #3 More RPC & RPC Semantics
Class Notes #4 Group Communication
Class Notes #5 Clock Synchronization
Class Notes #6 Mutual Exclusion & Election
Class Notes #7 Atomic Transaction & 2-Phase Commit
Class Notes #8 Concurrency Control
Class Notes #9 Deadlocks
Class Notes #10 Threads (Skipped)
Class Notes #11 System Models
Class Notes #12 Scheduling & Fault Tolerance
Class Notes #13 File Systems Design
Class Notes #14 File Systems Implementation & Caching
Class Notes #15 File Systems Implementation & Replication
Class Notes #16 Case Study: Sun's NFS
Class Notes #17 Case Study: Digital Domain - Titanic
Java RMI Tutorial Java RMI Tutorial
Distributed Prime A Distributed Prime Program
Assignment:
Document: Assignment#1
Source Code for non-RPC version: submarine.c
Demo Program for Win32: submarine.exe

Document: Assignment#2
Due Date: Date of Final Exam - Hand in at the Exam Venue
Notes for Cluster Computing - By Mr. Morris Law:
Cluster Computing Notes
Program Source: prime.c
Program Source: pi.c
Program Source: mandelbrotMPI.c
Notes for RPC programming:
Steps to write RPC Programs on our cslinux platform -- 0809-RPC-Notes.doc
One more Example on RPC Programming -- 0809-RPC-Prog.doc

Chris Brown, UNIX Distributed Programming, Chapter 6, pp. 285 --- 346. Prentice Hall, 1994. (ISBN 0-13-075896-5)
W. R. Stevens, Unix Network Programming, Chapter 18, pp. 692 --- 708. Prentice Hall Inetrnational, 1991.(ISBN 0-13-928755-8)

Notes for socket programming:
Chris Brown, UNIX Distributed Programming, Chapter 4, pp. 180 --- 242. Prentice Hall, 1994. (ISBN 0-13-075896-5)

Notes for Concurrency Control:
Stefano Ceri, and Giuseppe Pelagatti, Distributed Databases Principles & Systems, Chapter 7, Section 7.2.4 --- 7.3.3, pp. 187 --- 199; and Chapter 8, Section 8.3 --- 8.4.2, pp. 227 --- 237; McGraw-Hill International Student Editions, 1984. ISBN 0-07-Y66215-0)
Text Book:
Andrew S. Tanenbaum, and Maarten Van Steen, Distributed Systems Principles and Paradigms, 2nd Edition, Pearson International Edition, Pearson Prentice Hall Inc., 2007. (ISBN 0-13-613553-6)
Reference:
  1. Andrew S. Tanenbaum, and Maarten van Steen, Distributed Systems Principles and Paradigms, Prentice Hall Inc., 2002. (ISBN 0-13-088893-1)
  2. G. F. Coulourism, J. Dollimore, and T. Kindberg, Distributed Systems: Concepts and Design, 2nd Edition, Addison-Wesley, 1994.(ISBN 0-201-62433-8)
  3. W. R. Stevens, Unix Network Programming, Prentice Hall Inetrnational, 1991.(ISBN 0-13-928755-8)
  4. W. R. Stevens, Advanced Programming in the UNIX Environment, Addison-Wesley, 1992.(ISBN 0-201-56317-7)
  5. Chris Brown, UNIX Distributed Programming, Prentice Hall, 1994. (ISBN 0-13-075896-5)
  6. H. F. Korth, and A. Silberschatz, Database System Concepts, 2nd Edition, McGraw-Hill International Editions, 1991.(ISBN 0-07-100804-7)
  7. Stefano Ceri, and Giuseppe Pelagatti, Distributed Databases Principles & Systems, McGraw-Hill International Student Editions, 1984. ISBN 0-07-Y66215-0)