Distributed Systems and Web Services (CE 353) Fall 2013 Prof. Dr: Saleh El Shehaby Lecture 1 1 FACULTY OF ENGINEERING COMPUTER ENGINEERING

Course Objective Familiarize with Architectures, Processes, Communication and fundamentals. Define Names, identifiers, and addresses. Define clock synchronization, Consistency and replication. Identify cases advocating the appropriate use of communications systems or computing systems technologies 2

Course Contents An Introduction to DS – FAQ about DS – Architectures Styles – Processes Threads and virtualization – Communication – Naming. – Synchronization and Clock synchronization – Consistency and replication Data-centric consistency models. Client-centric consistency models. 3

Instructor: Prof. Dr: Saleh El-Shehaby – Lectures: Monday12:30  2:30 Thursday2:30  4:30 – Office Hours:Thursday12:30  2:30 Teaching Assistance: Eng. Noura Samir – Tutorial: Sunday 2:30  4:30 – Office: E621 4

Recommended Textbook: Andrew S. Tanenbaum, "Distributed systems principles and paradigms”, 2 nd Ed. Supplementary Reference: George Coulouris, Jean Dollimore and Tim Kindberg, “Distributed Systems Concepts and Design”, 3 rd ED 5

Introduction History of computer Multitasking Distributed Systems VS. Linking Why do we need DS IPC and RPC Prof.Dr Ahmed El Nahass Spring2011 CE359 6