Distributed Systems Notes

Distributed Systems Notes CS6601 Regulation 2013 Anna University free download. CS6601 Notes free pdf download.

OBJECTIVES Distributed Systems Notes:

The student should be made to:

Understand foundations of Distributed Systems.

Introduce the idea of peer to peer services and file system.

Understand in detail the system level and support required for distributed system.

Understand the issues involved in studying process and resource management.

OUTCOMES Distributed Systems Notes:

At the end of the course, the student should be able to:
Discuss trends in Distributed Systems.

Apply network virtualization.

Apply remote method invocation and objects.

Design process and resource management systems.

TEXT BOOK Distributed Systems Notes:

1. George Coulouris, Jean Dollimore and Tim Kindberg, “Distributed Systems Concepts and Design”, Fifth Edition, Pearson Education, 2012.

REFERENCES Distributed Systems Notes:

1. Pradeep K Sinha, “Distributed Operating Systems: Concepts and Design”, Prentice Hall of India, 2007.

2. Tanenbaum A.S., Van Steen M., “Distributed Systems: Principles and Paradigms”, Pearson Education, 2007.

3. Liu M.L., “Distributed Computing, Principles and Applications”, Pearson Education, 2004.

4. Nancy A Lynch, “Distributed Algorithms”, Morgan Kaufman Publishers, USA, 2003.

A distributed system is a software system in which components located on networked computers communicate and coordinate their actions by passing messages.

The components interact with each other in order to achieve a common goal.

Distributed systems Principles

A distributed system consists of a collection of autonomous computers, connected through a network and distribution middleware, which enables computers to coordinate their
activities and to share the resources of the system, so that users perceive the system as a single, integrated computing facility.
Centralised System Characteristics
 One component with non-autonomous parts
 Component shared by users all the time
 All resources accessible
 Software runs in a single process
 Single Point of control
 Single Point of failure