COURSE UNIT TITLE

: DISTRIBUTED COMPUTING SYSTEMS

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
CSE 5012 DISTRIBUTED COMPUTING SYSTEMS ELECTIVE 3 0 0 8

Offered By

Graduate School of Natural and Applied Sciences

Level of Course Unit

Second Cycle Programmes (Master's Degree)

Course Coordinator

PROFESSOR DOCTOR RECEP ALP KUT

Offered to

Computer Engineering (Non-Thesis-Evening) (English)
Computer Engineering Non-Thesis (English)
Computer Engineering (English)
Computer Engineering (English)
COMPUTER ENGINEERING (ENGLISH)

Course Objective

Typical distributed systems, advantages and disadvantages compared to traditional centralised systems, hardware and software concepts, communication and synchronisation in distributed systems, processes and processors in distributed systems, distributed file systems, distributed shared memory.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   Define Distributed Computing Systems
2   Define Distributed Computing Systems area of usages
3   Determine methods and technologies for implementing Distributed Computing
4   Design new solutions for Distributed Computing
5   Implement the visualization with presenting results

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Introduction to Distributed Systems
2 Communication in Distributed Systems
3 Pocesses
4 Naming
5 Synchronisation in Distributed Systems
6 Consistency and Replication
7 Fault Tolerance Systems
8 Security
9 Distributed Object Based Systems
10 Distributed File Systems
11 Distributed Document Based Systems
12 Project Development
13 The World Wide Web
14 Final Presentations

Recomended or Required Reading

Andrew S. Tanenbaum, Maarten van Steen, Distributed Systems: Principles and Paradigms, Prentice Hall, 2002.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Lectures
Literature Research
Presentation
Term Project

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 ASG ASSIGNMENT
2 PRS PRESENTATION
3 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE ASG * 0.50 + PRS * 0.50


*** Resit Exam is Not Administered in Institutions Where Resit is not Applicable.

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

Assessment will be the success level of presentation and the final report of term project.

Language of Instruction

English

Course Policies and Rules

To be announced.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

Prof.Dr.Alp Kut
Dokuz Eylul University
Department of Computer Engineering
Tinaztepe Campus 35160 BUCA/IZMIR
Tel: +90 (232) 301 74 01
e-mail: alp@cs.deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

Wednesday 9:00 11:00

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 14 3 42
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 14 2 28
Preparing assignments 1 42 42
Preparing presentations 2 25 50
Other (research, paper reading, etc.) 1 26 26
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 188

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6PO.7PO.8PO.9PO.10PO.11
LO.14
LO.24413
LO.3544523
LO.4445
LO.534