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COMP3221: Distributed Systems
This unit will provide a broad introduction to the principles of distributed computing and distributed systems and their design; provide students the fundamental knowledge required to analyse, design distributed algorithms and implement various types of applications, like distance-vector routing protocol; explain the common algorithmic design principles and approaches used in the design of message passing at different scales (e.g., logical time, peer-to-peer overlay).
| Code | COMP3221 |
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| Academic unit | Computer Science |
| Credit points | 6 |
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Prerequisites:
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(INFO1105 OR INFO1905) OR ((INFO1103 OR INFO1113) AND (COMP2123 OR COMP2823)) |
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Corequisites:
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None |
| Prohibitions:
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COMP2121 |
At the completion of this unit, you should be able to:
- LO1. produce professional quality written assignments and reports as well as well-documented software for reuse
- LO2. evaluate the implications of sharing of information and the importance of privacy and security as well as appreciate the importance of ethical behaviour among users of distributed systems
- LO3. design efficient distributed algorithms and produce distributed software based on these designs
- LO4. understand the general properties of distributed systems. You should be familiar with various types of distributed applications and how information is shared between distributed components
- LO5. understand programming paradigms for distributed systems (e.g. sockets) and be able to apply them to protocols
- LO6. implement distributed algorithms. You will be able to able to apply some common distributed algorithms (e.g. searches, shortest path, trees) towards solving problems.
- LO7. understand and implement distributed and scalable machine learning algorithms for large-scale networks.
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