Distributed Systems. 3 credits, 3 contact hours

Catalog description

Prerequisite: completion of bridge requirements. This course examines the principles of distributed systems in the context of modern large-scale applications, including cloud services, data-intensive platforms, and AI/ML workloads. Students will study communication, coordination, consistency, replication, and fault tolerance, and how these concepts enable systems to scale across many machines. The course also considers emerging demands on distributed infrastructure, such as support for increasingly data- and compute-intensive workloads, dynamic resource allocation, heterogeneous resources, and low-latency processing.