FI:PA053 Distributed Systems - Course Information

PA053 Distributed Systems and Middleware

Extent and Intensity

2/0. 2 credit(s) (plus extra credits for completion). Type of Completion: zk (examination).

Teacher(s)

prof. Ing. Petr Tůma, Dr. (lecturer), doc. Ing. Jan Staudek, CSc. (deputy)

Guaranteed by

prof. RNDr. Václav Matyáš, M.Sc., Ph.D.
Department of Computer Systems and Communications – Faculty of Informatics

Timetable

Fri 26. 3. 10:00–15:50 B003, Fri 9. 4. 10:00–15:50 B003, Fri 23. 4. 10:00–15:50 B003, Fri 7. 5. 10:00–15:50 B003, Fri 21. 5. 10:00–15:50 B003

Course Enrolment Limitations

The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.

fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with

• Applied Informatics (programme FI, N-AP)
• Information Technology Security (programme FI, N-IN)
• Bioinformatics (programme FI, N-AP)
• Information Systems (programme FI, N-IN)
• Informatics (programme FI, N-IN)
• Parallel and Distributed Systems (programme FI, N-IN)
• Computer Graphics (programme FI, N-IN)
• Computer Networks and Communication (programme FI, N-IN)
• Computer Systems (programme FI, N-IN)
• Embedded Systems (eng.) (programme FI, N-IN)
• Embedded Systems (programme FI, N-IN)
• Service Science, Management and Engineering (eng.) (programme FI, N-AP)
• Service Science, Management and Engineering (programme FI, N-AP)
• Theoretical Informatics (programme FI, N-IN)
• Upper Secondary School Teacher Training in Informatics (programme FI, N-SS) (2)
• Artificial Intelligence and Natural Language Processing (programme FI, N-IN)
• Image Processing (programme FI, N-AP)

Course objectives

At the end of the course students should be able to:
understand and explain the abstractions provided by operating systems and middleware layers in a distributed environment
organize an analysis of the communication, replication, sharing issues,
work with information on the abstractions provided by the distributed operating system kernels,
work with information on the abstractions provided by the middleware layers,
assess specific system studies,
use modern technologies to create distributed applications.

Syllabus

• Analysis of the issues related to communication, replication, sharing.
• Overview and comparison of concepts provided by kernels of distributed operating systems.
• Specific system studies (Mach, Mosix, Spring).
• Middleware for distributed environments.
• Specific system studies (CORBA, RMI, DCOM, .NET, EJB, CCM).

Literature

• Operating systems: Concurrent and distributed software design , Jean Bacon and Tim Harris, Addison Wesley, 2003, ISBN: 0-321-11789-1

Bookmarks

https://is.muni.cz/ln/tag/FI:PA053!

Teaching methods

lectures

Assessment methods

Lectures, class discussion, written test.

Language of instruction

Czech

Further Comments

Study Materials
The course is taught annually.

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