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Graduate School of Information Technology
POSTECH , Pohang Korea

Course Description

Lecture Hours: 1:20 ~ 2:35 pm, Tue & Thu, PIRL 144

Office: PIRL 434

Phone: 279-2244

Pre-requisites:

A course on computer networks is required. If a student did not take a course on computer networks but wishes to take the course, the student may be admitted under the discretion of the instructor.

Required Texts:

G.Coulouris, J. Dollimore and T. Kindberg, Distributed Systems: Concepts and Design, Second Edition, Addison-Wesley, ISBN 0-201-62433-8, 1994.
J. Won-Ki Hong, IT 527 Lecture Notes, GSIT, POSTECH, 1996.

Strongly Recommended References:

John Bloomer, Power Programming with RPC, O'Reilly & Associates,Inc., Sebastopol, CA, ISBN 0-937175-77-3, 1992.
J. Shirley, W. Hu and D. Magid, Guide to Writing DCE Applications, Second Edition, O'Reilly & Associates, Inc., Sebastopol, CA, ISBN 1-56592-045-7, 1992.
Robert Orfali, Dan Harkey, Jeri Edwards, The Essential Distributed Objects Survival Guide, Wiley, ISBN 0-471-12993-3, 1996.

Suggested References:

Sape Mullender, Distributed Systems, Second Edition, Addison-Wesley, ISBN 0-201-62427-3, 1993.
M. Sloman and J. Kramer, Distributed Systems and Computer Networks, Prentice-Hall International, Englewood Cliffs, NJ, ISBN 0-13-215864-7, 1987.
A. S. Tanenbaum, Modern Operating Systems, Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, NJ, ISBN 0-13-588187-0, 1992.
M. Singhal and N.G. Shivaratri, Advanced Concepts in Operating Systems, McGraw-Hill,Inc., New York, NY, ISBN 0-07-057572-X, 1994.
W. Rosenberry, D. Kennedy and G. Fisher, Understanding DCE, O'Reilly & Associates, Inc., Sebastopol, CA, ISBN 1-56592-005-8, 1992.
Jon Siegel, CORBA Fundamentals and Programming, Wiley, ISBN 0-471-12148-7, 1996.
OSF, OSF DCE Application Development Reference, PTR Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, NJ, ISBN 0-13-643834-2, 1993.
H. W. Lockhart, Jr., OSF DCE: Guide to Developing Distributed Applications, McGraw-Hill, Inc., New York, ISBN 0-07-911481-4, 1994.
D. Cerutti and D. Pierson, Distributed Computing Environments, McGraw-Hill, Inc., New York, ISBN 0-07-010516-2, 1993.
S. M. Shatz, Development of Distributed Software: Concepts and Tools, Macmillan Publishing Company, New York, ISBN 0-02-409611-3, 1993.
S. J. Leffler, M. K. McKusick, M. J. Karels and J. S. Quaterman, The Design and Implementation of the 4.3BSD UNIX Operating System, Addison-Wesley, Reading MA, ISBN 0-201-06196-1, 1989.
A. S. Tanenbaum, Computer Networks, 2nd edition, Prentice-Hall, 1988.

Group Projects:

first project

oral presentations

second project

oral presentations

demos

Assignments:

Assignment 0-1
Assignment 0-2
Assignment 1
Assignment 2
Assignment 3

Late assignments may be handed in, but there will be a penalty of 20% of the mark for assignments turned in less than one day late, and an additional penalty of 10% for each day thereafter.

Cheating Policy:

Cheating will not be tolerated in this course. Students are encouraged discuss things related to courses and assignments but the materials handed in for individual assignments must be his/her own. The maximum penalty for each offense is -- 100% for the assignment in question.

Exams and Quizzes:

There will be two in-class quizzes (worth 5% each of the final mark) during the course of the term. There will NOT be a midterm or final exam for this course.

Class Participation:

Students are strongly encouraged to attend all lectures and to participate in discussions during lectures. 5% of the final mark will be assigned for this.

Computing Facilities:

Your basic computing facility is the PIRL Workstation Room.

Computer Accounts:

You should all have an AFS account. If you do not have one yet, you should get one.

Reading the News:

The newsgroup postech.class.it527 has been set aside for course use. You can read and post news to this newsgroup using the Unix commands rn (or trn, xrn) and Pnews, respectively. In this newsgroup you will find changes to the lecture schedule, clarifications to the assignments, etc. It is your responsibility to read this newsgroup on a daily basis. There is likely to be little information at the beginning, but more as the course progresses.

Course Topics

The following are tentative topics that will be covered in the course.

1. Introduction to Distributed Systems
2. Characteristics of Distributed Systems
3. Design Goals and Issues
4. Transparency
5. Communication
6. Remote Procedure Call (Sun RPC, DCE RPC)
7. Naming
8. Time and Coordination
9. Replication
10. Shared Data and Transactions
11. Concurrency Control
12. Fault-Tolerance
13. Security
14. Distributed Systems Management
15. Distributed Computing Environments (OSF DCE, ANSAware)
16. Distributed Programming Languages
17. Distributed Computing Technologies (CORBA, ODP, TINA, ANSA)
18. Distributed Operating Systems (Mach, Amoeba, V System, Chorus)

Students in this course

Lee, Jae Seung (GSIT 9551M21 이 재승, Distributed Processing Environment Lab, PIRL)
Joo Yong Hoi (GSIT 9551M31 주 용회, Distributed Processing Environment Lab, PIRL)
Kim Chang Hwi (GSIT 9551M11 김 창휘, Distributed Processing Environment Lab, PIRL)
Jang seyung (GSIT 9551M26 장 세영, Network & Distributed Systems Lab, PIRL)
Kim Sun Ho (GSIT 9551M07 김 선호, Knowledge & Language Engineering Lab, PIRL)
Lee Suk Chan (GSIT 9551M20 이 석찬, Software Engineering Lab, PIRL)
Yi Su-Cheul (GSIT 9651M19 이 수철, 합동연구실, PIRL)
Kim Jongsuh (GSIT 9551M09 김 종서, 합동연구실, PIRL)
Nam Do Won (GSIT 96 남 도원, 합동연구실, PIRL)
Lee Jinwon (GSIT 9551M24 이 진원, 가속기 연구소)
Bae Jongwoo (GSIT 9551M15 배 종우, Intelligent Information Systems Lab, PIRL)
Han Chang Yong (GSIT 94 한 창용, Intelligent Information Systems Lab, PIRL)
Chang hoo Joo (GSIT 9551M27 장 후주, Network & Distributed Systems Lab, PIRL)
Hwang Seong Oun (GSIT 96 황 성운, 합동연구실, PIRL)
Inkee Woo
Sanghun Lee
Youn Chunkyun (GSIT 9551M19 윤 천균, Network & Distributed Systems Lab, PIRL)
Kim Sungmok (GSIT 9551M08 김 승목, Network & Distributed Systems Lab, PIRL)