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2017 - 2018 Graduate Catalog 
    
2017 - 2018 Graduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

CSCI 734 - Distributed Computing Systems


Fall or Spring 3 Prerequisite(s): CSCI 544  or equivalent.

Time and order in distributed systems. Synchronous and asynchronous systems. Models of faulty behavior in distributed systems. Paradigms of distributed computing: network mutual exclusion, deterministic agreement (Byzantine and fail-stop), elections, global state acquisition, atomic transactions. Issues in programming distributed systems. Reliable distributed systems. Distributed databases. Selected case studies.