CECS 629

Distributed System Design

This course covers general concepts in the design and implementation of distributed systems, visiting topics in cluster computing, supercomputing, grid computing, and cloud computing. The course is composed of two building blocks: 1) distributing computing models including MPI and MapReduce programming, and 2) distributed storage techniques including networked, parallel, and distributed file systems. Our readings and discussions of research papers will help us understand general approaches to design, implement, and evaluate real distributed systems as well as identify open research problems

Units: 3.0