Course Notes

Course Notes

The following are the copies of the slides that will be used in class. There are full slides (in pdf format) as well as handouts in both coloured and black-and-white versions.

Notes:

These notes are available in printed form at the bookstore.
These notes cover only the first half of the course, until the midterm. The second part will be posted later.
Please see the errata sheet for errors in the course notes.

Module 0. Begin

Module 1. Distributed system models

Module 2. Overview of computer networks

Module 3. Distributed objects & remote invocation

Module 4. Distributed naming

Module 5. Distributed file systems

Module 6. Synchronization

Module 7. Data replication

Module 8. Fault tolerance

Module 9. Security

Module 10. Review (pdf format)

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Last updated 28 July 2004