1. Distributed Systems Dr. Almetwally Mohamad Mostafa http://faculty.ksu.edu.sa/metwally/default.aspx almetwaly@ksu.edu.sa

2. 2 Course Assessment Project work and some short assignments: During semester worth 60%; Midterms 30% Assignment 1: 15% Assignment 2: 15% Written examination: A written examination (three hours) at the end of the semester worth 40%. All components must be completed satisfactorily to pass the subject.

3. 3 Assignment 1 Select one articles (subject) to demonstrate! Projects to understand : GlobData & DeDiSys

4. 4 Assignment 2 Distributed Applications Project Distributed counter Team Size: 2 (Strongly recommended) You choose your own partner. You are given a chance to show some creative thinking / architecture (e.g. “do I use client/server or P2P”, “TCP or UDP”, etc) Multi-stage project, assessed at each stage

5. 5 Books and References Main Text Book: CDK: Couloris, G, Dollimore, J. and Kinberg, T, Distributed Systems - Concepts and Design, 4th Edition, Addison-Wesley, Pearson Education, UK, ISBN 0201-619-180. http://www.cdk3.net | http://www.cdk4.nethttp://www.cdk3.nethttp://www.cdk4.net Reference / Alternate Text Book: TM: Andrew S. Tanenbaum and Maarten Van Steen, Distributed Systems: Principles and Paradigms, Prentice Hall, Pearson Education, USA. ISBN: 0-13-088893-1, 2002. http://www.prenhall.com/tanenbaum/ http://www.prenhall.com/tanenbaum/ Programming Reference: M. L. Liu, Distributed Computing - Concepts and Application, Addison Wesley, ISBN 0-321-21817-5, 2004. http://www.csc.calpoly.edu/~mliu/book/ http://www.csc.calpoly.edu/~mliu/book/ Java Network Programming (Addison Wesley) Research Articles:  To be supplied by the Lecturer at free of cost!

6. 6 Text Book OR 4 th edition published in June 2005. It has extra chapters: P2P, Grids, Web Services.

7. 7 Reference Book – Alternate Text Book

8. 8 Programming Reference

9. 9 Presentation Slides Usually on the web before lecture They may be updated slightly a day before the lecture to reflect recent developments Lecturer is happy to print and distribute them in the class as an additional service (at no cost) whenever possible. No need to read beforehand if you don’t want to! Mostly derived from the text book. Please buy prescribed textbook. Good ideas and figures from alternative text book or reference may also be used.

10. 10 Counter value 1 Process 1 Process 2 Process 3