300625 (v.2) Distributed Computing and CORBA 602
| Area: | Department of Computing |
| Credits: | 25.0 |
| Contact Hours: | 25.0 |
| Lecture: | 1 x 10 Days Quarterly |
| Practical: | 1 x 10 Days Quarterly |
| Syllabus: | Basics of distributed computing. Coordinated and uncoordinated processes. Control and introduction of concurrency in a distributed system. Combination of concurrency control and resilience in distributed systems. Fault-tolerant issues. Distributed and cooperative work, CORBA. |
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| Unit Outcomes: | On completion of this unit students will have an understanding of the aims and methods of distributed computing, experience at applying UML to design distributed programs, detailed experience of CORBA, and detailed knowledge of components. |
| Text and references listed above are for your information only and current as of September 30, 2003. Please check with the unit coordinator for up-to-date information. |
| Unit References: | Albahari: C# Essentials. Avresky and Kaeli: Fault Tolerant Parallel and Distributed Systems. Bertsekas and Tsitklis: Parallel and Distributed Computation: Numerical Methods. Boffey: Distributed Computing. Flanagan: Java in a Nutshell. J. Siegel, (2000) CORBA 3: Fundamentals and Programming, 2nd ed, Wiley. (ISBN 0-471-29518-3). Jacobson, Booch and Rumbaugh: The Unified Software Development Process. Needham and Herbert: The Cambridge Distributed Computer System. Nutt: Centralized and Distributed OperatingSystems. R. Orfalli and D. Harkey (1998), Client/Server Programming with CORBA, 2nd ed, Wiley. (ISBN 0-471-24578-X). H. Gomma, (2000) Designing Concurrent, Distributed, and Real Time Applications with UML, Addison-Wesley. (ISBN 0-201-65793-7). Reisig: Elements of a Distributed Algorithm. Rumbaugh, Jacobson and Booch: The Unified Modeling Language Reference. Sessions: COM+ and the Battle of the Middle Tier. Shirley, Hu and Magid: Guide to Writing DCE Applications. Silberschatz & Galvin: Operating SystemConcepts. Slomann & Krammer: Distributed Systems and Computer Networks. Tannenbaum: Modern Operating System. Tari & Bukhres: Fundamentals of Distributed Object System: The CORBA Perspective. Wilson & Lu: Parallel Programming using C++ |
| Unit Texts: | G. Coulouris, J Dollimore and T. Kindberg, (2001) Distributed Systems: Concepts and Design, 3rd ed, Addison-Wesley. (ISBN 0-201-61918-0) |
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| Unit Assessment Breakdown: | Assignments (2) 40%, Final examination 60% |
| Year | Location | Period | Internal | Area External | Central External | | 2004 | Bentley Campus | Semester 2 | Y | | | |
Current as of: February 2, 2004
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