Courses Topics

Theoretical foundations
Waves, Traversal
Managing physical clocks in distributed systems
Logical clocks: Lamport's and vector clocks
Global state recording, Termination detection
OS concepts
Distributed mutual exclusion
Handling deadlocks
Resource management
Distributed file systems, examples: Sun's NFS, Andrew FS
Distributed shared memory
Load distribution, Process migration
Security
Introduction to cryptography
implementations: Kerberos, Secure Shell
Other Topics
Clusters, High availability, Scalability, Fault tolerance