Master of Computer Science - University of Grenoble - France

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IDS - Introduction to Distributed Systems

· Contact

· Description

· Agenda

· Lectures and practical work documents

· References

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Contact

· Sara Bouchenak

Associate Professor, SARDES research group, INRIA - LIG laboratory, Sara.Bouchenak@imag.fr

Description

The objective of this course is to introduce the principles of the design and implementation of distributed systems and cloud computing. Principles of resource management, performance and dependability of distributed systems will be studied.

Practical implementations of distributed systems will be illustrated through technologies such as the Google App Engine cloud solution, Servlets and Web technologies, RMI and Messaging systems.

Content

· Introduction to distributed systems

· Synchronous client-server distributed systems

· Asynchronous event-based distributed systems

· MapReduce systems

· Distributed Web applications

· Rreplication protocols

· Partitioning protocols

· Caching protocols

· Use-cases: Google App Engine cloud, Hadoop, Web applications, Servlets, Messaging systems, etc.

Prerequisites: Java programming language

Agenda

Agenda available here.

Lectures and practical work documents

Lectures

• Introduction to distributed systems
  
  
• Introduction to RMI-based distributed systems
  
  
• Introduction to World Wide Web
  
  
• Servlet-based distributed Web applications
  
  
• Java Server Pages
  
  
• Multi-tier distributed Web applications
  
  
• Event-based systems
  
  
• MapReduce systems
  
• Cloud Computing
  

Practical work

• Building a synchonous-communication application with RMI
  
  
• Building an asynchrnous-communication application with JMS
  
  
• Servlet-based Web application
  
  
• Build a Software-as-a-Service on Google App Engine cloud
  
  
• Build a social network service as a cloud service
  
  

Case studies

The schedule of the presentation of the case studies is available here: schedule

Demonstrations

The schedule of demonstrations is available here: schedule

• Build a zip or tar.gz file that contains:
• a text or pdf file named report.txt or report.pdf, that describes the conducted work (4 pages maximum)
  
  
• one sub-directory per project, each project directory contains the following:
• the src/ directory that contains the Java source code
• the doc/ directory that contains Javadoc
  
  
• Send the zip or tar.gz file by email the day of the demonstration
  
  

References

· George Coulouris, Jean Dollimore, Tim Kindberg. Distributed Systems: Concepts and Design (4th Edition). Addison Wesley, 2005.

· Andrew S. Tanenbaum, Maarten van Steen. Distributed Systems: Principles and Paradigms (2nd Edition). Prentice Hall, 2006.

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