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This week's topic is Characterisation of Distributed Systems.
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Learning Outcomes
Upon completion of this week's class and tasks, you should be able to do the following:
- Demonstrate an awareness of the characteristics of concurrency, independent failure of components and lack of a global clock, which necessarily arise in a distributed system consisting of components that coordinate their actions only by passing messages.
- Place distributed systems in a realistic context through examples.
- Place distributed systems in a realistic context through examples.
- Demonstrate a clear understanding of the challenges related to heterogeneity, openness, security, scalability, failure handling, concurrency and transparency as they apply to distributed systems.
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Notes and Handouts
- Slides: This is a PDF document with this week's notes, with one slide per page. Use this for viewing on your computer.
- Handouts: This is a PDF document with this week's notes, with six slides per page. Use this for printing.
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Tasks
| Task Number | Details |
|---|---|
| 1 | Review the requirements for your assignment. Identify the challenges facing you in the completion of the assignment. |
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Further Reading
- Chapter 1 of Distributed Systems, Concepts and Design (4th Edition), by George Coulouris, Jean Dollimore and Tim Kindberg
- See Luis van Ahn on Human Computation
- Read Curtin and Dolske's paper on a brute force search of DES keyspace
- Instructions on setting up Java.
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