CSC 577 - Advanced Distributed Systems

Admission to the MS in CSIS program; CSC 375 with a grade of B (3.0) or better or CSC 500 or pass on department programming proficiency test. (3)

History of operating system development. Issues in communication. Processes and naming; synchronization and consensus; consistency and replication; fault tolerance. File systems, security, middleware. Process and thread management. Examples of distributed operating system techniques. Not open to students with credit forCSC 477. Graded ABCDE/Y