FI:IV100 Distributed computations - Course Information
IV100 Parallel and distributed computations
Faculty of InformaticsAutumn 2024
- Extent and Intensity
- 2/0/0. 2 credit(s) (plus extra credits for completion). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
- Teacher(s)
- prof. RNDr. Ivana Černá, CSc. (lecturer)
prof. RNDr. Rastislav Královič, Ph.D. (lecturer) - Guaranteed by
- prof. RNDr. Ivana Černá, CSc.
Department of Computer Science – Faculty of Informatics
Contact Person: prof. RNDr. Ivana Černá, CSc.
Supplier department: Department of Computer Science – Faculty of Informatics - Timetable
- Thu 19. 9. to Thu 12. 12. each even Thursday 16:00–19:50 A318
- Prerequisites
- IB002 Algorithms I
IB002 (Design of algorithms), required. PB152 (Operating systems) recommended. - Course Enrolment Limitations
- The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
The capacity limit for the course is 70 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 20/70, only registered: 0/70, only registered with preference (fields directly associated with the programme): 0/70 - fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
- there are 36 fields of study the course is directly associated with, display
- Course objectives
- The aim of the course is to introduce students into the field of distributed computation. It presents the basic concepts, problems and solutions. Algorithms for selected group of problems give the insight into the techniques used in the field and show how the various environments influence the quality and (un)solvability of the problem.
- Learning outcomes
- Students will know particular algorithms for distributed routing, leader election and termination.
- Syllabus
- Distributed systems and distributed algorithms.
- Communication protocols. Alternating-bit protocol, sliding-window protocol.
- Routing algorithms. Routing tables and algorithms for their constructions. Floyd-Warshallův algorithm, shortest-path algorithm.
- Distributed mutual exclusion. Distributed election algorithms. Ring networks and a general topology. Impact of synchrony. Impact of sense of direction.
- Termination detection. Dijkstra-Scholten algorithm.
- The problem of Byzantine generals and its (un)solvability in various environments.
- Literature
- BARBOSA, Valmir C. An introduction to distributed algorithms. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1996, xiii, 365. ISBN 0262024128. info
- LYNCH, Nancy A. Distributed algorithms. San Francisco: Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, 1996, xxiii, 872. ISBN 1-55860-348-4. info
- TEL, Gerard. Introduction to distributed algorithms. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994, xii, 534. ISBN 0521470692. info
- LEIGHTON, Frank Thomson. Introduction to parallel algorithms and architectures :arrays, trees, hypercubes. San Mateo: Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, 1992, xviii, 831. ISBN 1-55860-117-1. info
- Teaching methods
- lectures, individual homeworks and projects aiming at practical skills with designe techniques
- Assessment methods
- The course has a form of the lecture. It is concluded by the written exam possibly combined with the oral exam.
- Language of instruction
- Slovak
- Further Comments
- The course is taught once in two years.
- Enrolment Statistics (recent)
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