Chalmers Technical University Gothenburg University
Fault Tolerant Distributed Systems
Lecture+Reading Course, 5points
M. PAPATRIANTAFILOU, PH. TSIGAS
DCS research group at CS, Chalmers

INDEX

  1. Course Summary
  2. Course Structure
  3. Literature (and electronically available student reports)
  4. Other Resources
  5. Next Classes (expired)
  6. Communication, Announcements
 

SUMMARY

We will study a range of ways to cope with failures in various types of distributed systems (shared memory control systems, multiprocessors, networks) and applications (operating systems kernel, concurrent languages, network services). We will use some material from books, both on foundations and on applications (to provide breadth of knowledge and to refresh some introductory material, but mostly research publications (to go into some depth in the hot (or cool :-) topics and to see some nice open areas of research).

PLANNED STRUCTURE/SEQUENCE OF PROBLEMS TO STUDY:

It will be a combination of lecture+reading 5 point course.
A participant will be expected to give one presentation, to prepare for each meeting (for asking questions, participating in discussion, ...), and to write a small summary for one of the topics.

The first item will be covered by (2) lectures. There will be additional lecture parts in the subsequent items, when some background/introductory material is necessary to be presented. The rest will be presentations by the participants. People interested can make groups of 2 or 3 people and share the task of 2 or 3 presentations and the corresponding summaries.

Please send an e-mail  (ptrianta@cs.chalmers.se, tsigas@cs.chalmers.se) to have a look at the reading material, have copies of it, discuss any questions/suggestions you have and/or sign for an item.

LITERATURE as planned per class (updated with pointers -wherever possible):

The reading material is organized as a planned lecture(class)-wise break-up. Wherever it is mentioned that the material is for 2 classes, the people who are interested can make groups of 2 or 3 persons and share the task of 2 or 3 presentations and the corresponding summaries. This will be good and will help the preparation. If, however, you would prefer to work alone, the material can be split accordingly.

Please send an e-mail -ptrianta@cs.chalmers.se, tsigas@cs.chalmers.se) to have a look at the reading material, have copies of it, discuss any questions/suggestions you have and/or sign for an item.

OTHER RESOURCES:

NEXT CLASS:

The course is held every Monday, 13:30-15:00
Seminar room S4
at the Computing Science building

COMMUNICATION, ANNOUNCEMENTS

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    2. This page serves as a shared-memory communication medium (i.e. we write and you all can read, but *you* have to *go* to read it to see added or modified items). However, it is also good to sometimes be informed using our message-passing communication medium (i.e. have *the information* *come and interrupt* us all when there is something new, i.e. use our e-mail systems).

    Therefore, if you would like, please send an e-mail to ptrianta@cs.chalmers.se and/or to tsigas@cs.chalmers.se so that we can make a mailing list and it is possible to broadcast something or have a discussion by e-mail with the people who are ineterested when it is needed.

  2. (timestamp: 980331)

    3. Please send an e-mail -ptrianta@cs.chalmers.se, tsigas@cs.chalmers.se) to arrange for a meeting if you would like to have a look at the reading material, have copies of it, discuss any questions/suggestions you have and/or sign for an item.

ptrianta@cs.chalmers.se, tsigas@cs.chalmers.se -