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Yetunde Folajimi Teaching

CSC 423: Distributed Systems

This is an elective course for a few registered students. If you like to take this course, please register here


Course Outlines:

General Overview of Distributed Systems: 
What is a distributed system? 
Examples of distributed systems
Why do we use distributed systems?
Hardware and Software Architectures

MulticomputersDistributed Operating System
MiddlewareDistributed systems and parallel computing
Distributed systems in context
Basic Problems and ChallengesCommon mistakes, principles and rules of thumb


Course materials:

The official textbook for this course is:
Distributed Systems (2nd Edition) by Andrew Tanenbaum and Maarten van Steen    

Focus your concentration on chapters 1, 2, 3, 4 and 9 of the book. The lecture slides are provided in case you are not able to get a copy of the book
Additional reading materials are also provided below.

Lecture Slides from Distributed Systems (2nd Ed) by Andrew Taenbaum and Maarten van Steen

chap-01v2.pdf
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networking.pdf
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chap-02v2.pdf
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chap-03v2.pdf
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chap-04v2.pdf
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chap-09v2.pdf
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Additional Reading materials


Download Lecture notes on Introduction to Distributed system 
Download lecture notes on Systems Architecture and Communication
Download lecture notes on security