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Distributed Systems (15-440). Mohammad Hammoud December 4 th , 2013. Course Objectives. The course aims at providing an in-depth and hands-on understanding on. How modern distributed systems meet the demands of contemporary distributed applications.
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Distributed Systems(15-440) Mohammad Hammoud December 4th, 2013
Course Objectives The course aims at providing an in-depth and hands-on understanding on How modern distributed systems meet the demands of contemporary distributed applications Distributed system programming models and analytics engines Principles on which distributed systems are optimized Principles on which distributed systems are based
List of Topics Considered: a reasonably critical and comprehensive understanding. Thoughtful: Fluent, flexible and efficient understanding. Masterful: a powerful and illuminating understanding. • .1. • Architectures and Communications • .2. • Naming • .3. • Synchronization • .4. • Consistency and Replication • .5. • Fault Tolerance • .6. • Programming Models • .7. • Distributed File Systems • .8. • Virtualization
Course Content • Course Overview and Introduction (2 Lectures): • Why distributed systems? • Defining distributed systems • Course overview and intended learning outcomes • Trends in distributed systems • High performance platforms • Mobile and ubiquities computing • Cloud computing • Etc., • Challenges in designing distributed systems • Heterogeneity, openness, security, scalability, reliability, concurrency, transparency and quality of service
Course Content • Architectural Models (1 Lecture): • Client-server, peer-to-peer, tiered and layered architectures • Networking (1 Lecture): • Types of networks • Networking principles: • Packet transmission • Network Layers (Physical, data-link, network and transport layers) • Congestion control
Course Content • Communication Paradigms (1 Lecture): • Socket communication • TCP and UDP sockets • Remote invocation • RPC and RMI • Indirect communication • Message-queuing, publish-subscribe, and group communication systems
Course Content • Naming (2 Lectures): • Flat naming • Broadcasting, forwarding pointers, home-based naming, and distributed hash tables • Structured naming • Hierarchical name spaces, name resolution, linking and mounting • Attribute-based naming • LDAP and RDF
Course Content • Synchronization (3 Lectures): • Time synchronization • Physical clocks (UTC, Cristian & Berkeley Algorithms and Network Time Protocol) • Logical clocks (Lamport and vector clocks) • Distributed Mutual Exclusion • Permission-based • Token-based • Election Algorithms • Bully and Ring algorithms
Course Content • Consistency and Replication (3 Lectures): • Data-Centric Consistency Models: • Continuous, Sequential and Causal Models • Client-Centric Consistency Models: • Eventual consistency and client consistency guarantees • Replica Management: • Server and content replication and placement strategies • Consistency Protocols: • Primary-based, replicated-write and cache coherence protocols
Course Content • Distributed Programming Models (4 Lectures): • Classical programming models • Shared-memory and message-passing models • MPI Library • Point-to-point and group communication routines • Hadoop MapReduce, Google’s Pregel and CMU’s GraphLab • The parallelism models • The programming models • The architectural models • The computational models • Task/Vertex/Job scheduling • Distributed application suitability
Course Content • Fault-Tolerance (3 Lectures) • Failure models • Crash, omission, timing, response and byzantine models • Process resilience and agreement protocols • Lamport’s agreement protocol • Reliable communication • Request-reply reliable communication (Request-reply call semantics) • Group reliable communication (Virtual synchrony and atomic multicasting) • Recovery (Checkpointing and message-logging)
Course Content • Distributed File Systems (2 Lectures): • DFS Aspects: • Architectures (Client-server, cluster-based, and symmetric architectures) • Processes (Stateless vs. state-full processes) • Communication (RPC2) • Naming (Constructing global name spaces) • Synchronization (Semantics of file sharing) • Consistency and replication (Client-side caching, server-side replication and versioning) • Fault-tolerance (Quorum-based mechanisms)
Course Content • Virtualization (1 Lecture): • Why Virtualization in distributed systems? • Virtualization types • Full virtualization vs. para-virtualization • Virtual machine types • Process VMs vs. system VMs