Course Information

Designation:

Elective Course

Course Level:

Graduate

Prerequisites

Prerequisite(s) by Topic:

Prerequisite: (ICS 570 and ICS 431) or Consent of Instructor

Prerequisite Courses:

ICS 431: Operating Systems

ICS 570: Advanced Computer Networking

Catalog Description:

Introduction to parallel and distributed computation models. Mapping a parallel solution
to a distributed computing platform. Programming issues. Operating system support for
distributed computing. Message passing environments such as PVM and MPI. Load
balancing. Migration. Agent architectures. Performance and complexity measures.
Services. Service driven design of distributed applications. Timing and Synchronization.
Remote procedure invocation. Project(s).

ICS 572: Distributed Computing

ICS 572: Distributed Computing