Course Page for Distribuerade System
(TFP 1TT835) Vår 2000

New Material

[000301] Hints on the Lab and a lab page are now up and running here .
[000303] Some exams with relevant questions for revision purposes.
[000303] New versions of my online notes in PostScript Format, ignore file 16.ps, it is not relevant to this course. NOTE, these notes are a supplement to the material given in the lectures THEY ARE NOT a full record of the course instance you have followed.

Teaching Staff

Lecturer	Arnold Pears	arnoldp@docs.uu.se
Teaching Assistant	Ernst Nordström	ernstn@docs.uu.se

Course Content

The course consists of a series of lectures based on the Syllabus, and reading may be conducted in the textbook and also reference can be made to the sets of online notes and slides in the Links page.

Laboratory Exercise

The laboratory exercise for this course is a programming assignment, in which students construct a middleware for a distributed database which ensures that multiple copies of a database are maintained in a consistent state.

Further information regarding the laboratory can be found on the Official Laboratory Page , and in the Links section below.

Links to Reading and Useful Material

Arnold's Powerpoint Notes on Parallel Computing. (000303)These notes are in Postscript (landscape) format. Note that there are animations, which consume a large number of slides, so browse the lectures before you print them.
Arnold's Powerpoint Notes on Parallel Computing. (000229)These notes are in PowerPoint V4 format.
Notes on Two Phase Commit
Links to sample exam questions from related courses.
Watch this space for more material.

Course Text

Tannenbaum, Andrew
"Distributed Operating Systems"
Prentice-Hall International Edition
3rd Edition, 1995
ISBN-0-13-143934-0