Purushotham Bangalore

Email: puri@cis.uab.edu

Office: CH 130

Phone: 205-934-8604

Office Hours: Tuesday and Thursday  2:00 PM - 3:30 PM.

                      Other times by appointment only.

Course Session

Tuesday and Thursday  10:20 AM - 12:25 PM     Room CB15 101 (15th Street Classroom Building)

Course Homepage

http://www.cis.uab.edu/cs438

Prerequisite

CS 330 Computer Organization and Assembly Language Programming

                 OR

Permission of Instructor

TBA

Description

Three hours lecture.

Introduction to distributed systems, distributed hardware and software concepts, communication, processes, naming, synchronization, consistency and replication, fault tolerance, security, client/server computing, web technologies, enterprise technologies.

Textbook

Distributed Systems: Principles and Paradigms by Andrew S. Tanenbaum and
Maarten van Steen. ISBN: 0-13-088893-1. Publisher: Prentice Hall. Copyright: 2002.

Grading Policy

Midterm                     30%

Homework (3-4)        40% 

Final Exam                  30%

Final Exam will be held on Tuesday, August 9, 8:00 AM.-10:30 AM.

Students enrolled in CS 631 and CS 731 will have additional questions on homework and exams. 

Class Attendance

1.   Attendance is mandatory for this course. If you know you will be absent for a legitimate reason, let the instructor know. If you are sick bring a doctor's excuse or a written university excuse to resolve the absences. An absence has to be resolved as soon as possible - otherwise it will not be treated as an excused absence.

2.   Students auditing this course are expected to attend the lectures. Auditing students with more than three unexcused absences will receive a failing grade.

3.   There will be NO make-up exams. A student anticipating an excused absence from an exam should make arrangements in advance to sit for the exam at another time.

Academic Honesty

Students who plagiarize a computer program (or parts of a program), get others to write a program (or parts of a program), or are found cheating on a quiz/exam, will be reported for academic dishonesty. Anyone who is caught cheating will receive a 0 on a given test or assignment. If a second offense occurs, the student will receive an F in the class. This includes both the provider of the information as well as the receiver of the information. Any student who violates the university's academic honesty policy will be reported for academic discipline. All university and department policies related to students are included here by implication.

Add/Drop Policy

1.      A student can drop the course through June 8, 2005.

2.      A student can add the course through June 9, 2005.

3.      A student can withdraw with a "W" by July 12, 2005. (Undergraduate)

4.      A student can withdraw with a "W" by August 3, 2005. (Graduate)

5.      For more details about add/drop policies check with Registration/Academic Records.

E-mail

Every student will be required to use his/her official email address that is blazerid@uab.edu. New students must login and configure their email addresses. For more details on obtaining blazerid and configuring email please see: http://www.uab.edu/blazerid. All email communications will be made using this address. Additional instructions or announcements will be sent by e-mail, so check your mail often. Also check the course webpage and the discussion forum for up-to-date information and announcements. Instructor will check email frequently, so e-mail is often the best way to contact the instructor.

Java Developer's Almanac - Code Samples: http://java.sun.com/developer/codesamples/examplets/
Java RMI Tutorial: http://java.sun.com/developer/onlineTraining/rmi/RMI.html