Modern Distributed Computing

An overview of modern distributed computing. The student will develop an understanding of basic models of networking, parallel, and distributed computing technologies and will learn the fundamentals of networking components and their applications. The course covers examples of parallel and distributed computing such as cloud and web services, computation grids/clusters, and edge-computing. It includes both asynchronous and synchronous message passing, global snapshot algorithms and their applications, and synchronization algorithms.This course includes programming assignments.

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