FIT3142 Distributed computing

When you finish this unit, you should be able to:

1. 1

   Analyse and evaluate interprocess communications in networks, and associated programming interfaces;

2. 2

   Analyse and evaluate remote procedure call and remote object request broker mechanisms in distributed systems;

3. 3

   Analyse and model basic problems in distributed computing, especially in relation to concurrency, parallelism, synchronisation, deadlocks, and safety properties;

4. 4

   Analyse and evaluate differences between various distributed computing models and widely used distributed computing schemes;

5. 5

   Analyse, evaluate and model basic functional and performance concepts in distributed systems and identify frequent causes of performance problems in distributed applications;

6. 6

   Analyse and model basic software and hardware reliability problems in distributed systems and identify frequent causes of reliability problems in distributed applications;

7. 7

   Analyse and evaluate some of the enabling technologies e.g. high-speed links, for building computer clusters, distributed storage systems, grids and clouds;

8. 8

   Analyse and evaluate the operating principles of the cloud computing, grid computing, clustering, and web services middleware used to implement large distributed systems, including basic security mechanisms;

9. 9

   Analyse and model in application scalability in distributed systems, and criteria for porting applications to distributed systems;

10. 10

    Implement programs using common distributed computing programming interfaces, including sockets, and some higher level APIs.