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Distributed Computing

Presentations (Archive, 2013)

Lecture Contents
1 Lecture 1-3. Introduction.
  1. Introduction, course description.
  2. Definition of distributed systems.
  3. Types of computer systems: uniform and distributed systems.
  4. Distributed Systems Issues.
  5. Taxonomy for Distributed Systems.
2 Lecture 4. Challenges of Distributed Computing.
  1. Heterogeneity.
  2. Openness.
  3. Scalability.
  4. Security.
  5. Transparency.
3 Lecture 5. Paradigms of Distributed Computing  
4 Lecture 6. Client-server architecture  
5 Lecture 7. RPC, RMI, Socket  

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