CS 9842: Advanced Topics in Distributed Systems


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Course Outline

Announcements

March 8: Schedule for Paper Presentations is found here
Feb 3: Notes for Google Technologies are up  
January 20: Notes for Google infrastructure, Mapreduce and replication are up.   This is not intended to be a complete list but rather give a flavour of possible projects.
January 7: Some sample projects can be found here.  This is not intended to be a complete list but rather give a flavour of possible projects.
January 7: Sample paper review
First Day of Classes: Thursday, January 7th, 2010

General Information

Meeting Time and Location: Thursday: 1:30-3:30, MC 316
 
Description:  This course covers new architectures and programming techniques for large scale distributed systems. Students will study state-of-the-art solutions for large scale distributed systems such as those developed by Google, Amazon, Microsoft, Yahoo, etc.   Students will also explore novel ideas that may be important in the future.    

Instructor

Instructor: Professor Hanan Lutfiyya
Phone: 519-679-5184 (86888)
Email: hanan at csd dot uwo dot ca
Office Hours:  By appointment.