CS 5414

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CS 5414
Distributed Computing Principles

Course information provided by the Courses of Study 2024-2025. Courses of Study 2024-2025 is scheduled to publish mid-June.

Studies the abstractions and algorithms that constitute the foundations for implementing concurrent and distributed computing, with emphasis on supporting fault-tolerance. Topics vary to reflect advances in the field but typically include global state snapshots, causality and clocks (logical and physical), agreement and consensus, primary-backup and state-machine replication, quorums, and gossip. Students undertake a substantial software project to put these ideas into practice. Many students obtain additional project credit by co-registering in CS 4999 or CS 5999.

When Offered Fall.

Prerequisites/Corequisites Prerequisite: CS 4410 or permission of instructor.

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Choose one lecture and one discussion.

  • 4 Credits Opt NoAud

  • 19884 CS 5414   LEC 001

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    • MW
    • Aug 26 - Dec 9, 2024

    • Alvisi, L

  • 19885 CS 5414   DIS 201

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    • F
    • Aug 26 - Dec 9, 2024

    • Alvisi, L