Computer Science Internet and Web Technology High Performance Distributed Computing Parallel and Distributed Computer Systems Dr.-Ing. Thilo Kielmann

KOP OVER 2 REGELS tekst Computer Science Programmes - Internet and Web Technology - High Performance Distributed Computing - Software Engineering - Technical Artificial Intelligence - Multimedia - Formal Methods and Software Verification

KOP OVER 2 REGELS tekst Internet and Web Technology – Focus: Technology for the Internet and the Web – Large-scale computer systems (e.g. Web server architectures) – Network protocols – Peer-to-peer technology – Security in the Internet (e.g. worms, honey pots)

KOP OVER 2 REGELS tekst High Performance Distributed Computing Focus: Large-scale computing Parallel computing: clusters, grids, clouds, mainframes High-performance computers and networks Scientific and commercial applications: e.g., genome sequencing, designing new medicines, oil-field discovery, stock-market predictions, Google's and Amazon's services

KOP OVER 2 REGELS tekst State-of-the-art equipment DAS4, the distributed ASCI super computer, is operated from the VU Nodes are situated at Astron, Leiden, Delft, Amsterdam (UvA,VU)

KOP OVER 2 REGELS tekst Parallel and Distributed Computer Systems (top master program) Some courses: Distributed Systems Parallel Programming Cluster and Grid Computing Network Security Distributed Algorithms Protocol Validation Network Programming Research Proposal Preparation

KOP OVER 2 REGELS tekst What is a Top Master's ? International (students from Europe, USA, India, China) Research oriented Selective admission Practical orientation (many labs, projects) Narrowly focused on systems –Operating systems, networks, distributed systems –Multiprocessors, clusters, Internet, grids –Parallel algorithms / languages / systems

KOP OVER 2 REGELS tekst Andrew S. Tanenbaum Small, reliable, secure, operating systems Wide-area distributed systems

KOP OVER 2 REGELS tekst IWT / HPDC / PDCS Master's Projects - Turtle – secure P2P - Monitoring in Globule - Content placement for video-on-demand - Visualization / computer graphics projects - Parallel bioinformatics applications - Energy-aware wireless epidemics - Grid security infrastructures

KOP OVER 2 REGELS tekst mCS-IWT/HPDC versus mPDCS - IWT and HPDC are part of the framework of mCS - Mandatory choices theory, software eng., math - Literature study - Automatic admission (“doorstroommaster”) for B.Sc. Informatica - PDCS is a separate “top master” programme - admission based on application (proving capability for research)

KOP OVER 2 REGELS tekst mPDCS specific courses - Parallel Programming - Distributed Systems - Computer and Network Security - Cluster and Grid Computing - Advanced Topics in Distributed Systems - Advanced Topics in Computer and Network Security - Research Proposal Writing - PDCS Programming Project - Selected Topics in PDCS

KOP OVER 2 REGELS tekst mCS-IWT specific courses - Parallel Programming - Distributed Systems - Computer and Network Security - Network Programming

KOP OVER 2 REGELS tekst mCS-HPDC specific courses - Parallel Programming - Parallel Programming Practical - Distributed Systems - Cluster and Grid Computing - Network Programming

KOP OVER 2 REGELS tekst mCS-HPDC minor in Bioinformatics - HPDC deals with e-science applications - Bioinformatics is a great application domain for HPDC - minor inside free-choice package: - Fundamentals of Bioinformatics Fundamentals of Bioinformatics - Algorithms in Sequence Analysis Algorithms in Sequence Analysis - Bioinformatics of Large Systems Bioinformatics of Large Systems - +1 free choice bioinformatics course