Key Information
About the content
Learn core distributed computing concepts that underlie today’s and tomorrow’s cloud computing systems.
Syllabus
This course will be broken up into 5 weekly modules covering the following topics:
Week 1: Orientation, Intro to Clouds, MapReduce
Week 2: Gossip, Membership, Grids
Week 3: P2P Systems
Week 4: Key-Value Stores, Time and Ordering
Week 5: Snapshots, Multicast, Paxos
And there's more! There are 5 more weeks of topics in Cloud Computing Concepts: Part 2.
Instructors
- Indranil Gupta - Department of Computer Science
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