Week 1: Introduction, Taxonomy
- Lecture notes:
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A taxonomy of distributed systems
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Lecture slides
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- Supplemental notes:
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none
- Buzzwords:
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Single System Image, SISD, SIMD, MIMD, multiprocessors, multicomputers,
bus, switch, interconnect,
coherent memory, cache memory, write-through cache, snoopy cache,
crossbar switch, NUMA, distributed system,
centralized model, client-server model, workstation model, peer-to-peer model,
processor pool model,
thick clients, thin clients, two-tier architecture, n-tier architecture,
location transparency, migration transparency, replication transparency,
concurrency transparency, parallelism transparency, reliability, availability,
performance, scalability.
