Additional information about this course can be found on WWW at URL
http://knight.cis.temple.edu/~ingargio/cis307/
A detailed discussion of cis307 as it relates to the ACM2001 suggested
curricula is here.
Section 001 meets
on Tuesday and Thursday from 8:40 to 10:00am in Tuttleman 407AB.
Sections 002 meets
on Tuesday and Thursday from 10:10 to 11:30am
in Tuttleman 403B.
The laboratory for Sections 001 is on Tuesday from 2:40pm
to 4:30pm, for Section 002 is on Wednesday from 8:40am to 10:30am.
All labs are in CC207.
| Instructor: | Dr. Giorgio P. Ingargiola |
|---|---|
| Office: | Wachman Hall, Room 1038 |
| Phone: | (215)204-6825 |
| E-Mail: | giorgio.ingargiola@temple.edu |
| Contact Hours: | Wednesday from 10:30am to
12:30pm Tuesday and Thursday from 11:40am to 12:10, or by appointment, or take your chances and drop by |
| Teaching Assistant: | Yilian Qin |
|---|---|
| Office: | Room 206 Wachman Hall |
| Phone: | (215)204-6823 |
| Homework E-Mail: | c307100@lucas.cis.temple.edu for Section 1 c307200@lucas.cis.temple.edu for Section 2 |
| Questions E-Mail: | yilian@temple.edu |
| Contact Hours: | Monday 1:00-3:00, Tuesday 9:00-12:00, Wednesday 12:30-2:30 (On Tuesday fro 10:30 to 12:30 Ms.Qin will be in room 213 not 206) |
| Home Page: | http://astro.temple.edu/~yilian/ |
| Ombudsperson: | Joshua Crean |
|---|---|
| Office: | Room 210 Wachman Hall |
| Phone: | 215-204-1146 |
| E-Mail: | jarsh@temple.edu |
| Homepage: | TBS |
| Contact Hours: | Tu: 9:30-11:30; Wed: 8:30-10:30; Thu: 9:30-11:30 |
Miscellaneous: Our first class is on August 31st and the last class
is on December 7th.
The last day to drop the course (and get tuition refund) is
Monday September 13,
2004
The last day to withdraw from the course (no refund) is Monday November 1,
2004. Students who have previously withdrawn from this course, or who have
already withdrawn from 5 courses since September 2003 may not withdraw.
Any student who has a need for accomodation based on the impact of a
disability should contact me privately to discuss the specific situation
as soon as possible. Students with documented disabilities should contact
Disability Resources and Services at
215-204-1280 in 100 Ritter Hall to coordinate reasonable accomodations.
PREREQUISITES
CIS166, CIS207, and CIS223 must have been completed
with a grade of C- or better before beginning cis307.
TEXTBOOKS
REQUIRED:
RECOMMENDED:
DESCRIPTION
Introduction to the concepts that are fundamental for
understanding distributed systems and the technical infrastructure
that makes them possible. We re-examine issues presented in operating
systems, like concurrency, mutual exclusion, deadlocks, and scheduling,
and examine issues that arise in distributed systems, like
partial failures and lack of a single clock.
We review the
networks that make distributed systems possible. Finally we examine
simple patterns for programming distributed applications.
Lectures will mostly be expository and conceptual.
The aim is to acquire a system perspective and an understanding of
enduring issues, like reliability, security, scalability, performance evaluation,
and of the
trade-offs they involve.
Directed closed laboratories and homework assignments will
require the
solution of distributed programming problems.
| 10-minute tests: | 13% | Eleven tests (only your top 10 scores are used in computing your grade) |
|---|---|---|
| Midterm1: | 10% | [September 30] |
| Midterm2: | 10% | [November 4] |
| Final: | 34% | [December 14 for section2, December 16 for section 1. Exams are from 8:30am to 10:30am.] |
| Homeworks: | 33% |
The exams consist of expository questions and of programming questions.
Disastrous performance in either the expository questions,
or the programming questions, or in the homeworks,
will result in a Fail grade. Class attendance is required. Absence in more
than 25% of the classes will result in a penalty of half
a letter grade. People who are more than 30 minutes late will not be admitted that day.
Lab attendance is mandatory. Absence from more than four
labs will result in a drop of a letter grade.
EXAMS
The exams are closed book. Their content is cumulative, i.e. they address
the material covered up to the day of the exam.
If a student misses one of the nine 10-minute tests, the student will lose the
points associated to that test.
If a student misses a
midterm for an emergency [as agreed by instructor],
there will be no makeup exam: the final will become
proportionally more important. The final exam is mandatory. Examples of
questions from past exams are
available.
HOMEWORKS
You will be assigned about 8 homeworks that involve programming and
discussion in the laboratory sessions. Additional homeworks of a more
theoretical nature may also be assigned.
Each assignment must be completed on time. Late homeworks will not be accepted
except in extreme circumstances as recognised by the instructor.
You are expected to work and complete all the homeworks on your own.
Copying of program code, data, documentation, etc
is not allowed. If you use material you did not create, include detailed acknowledgement as to the source.
See the
University Policy on Plagiarism and Academic Cheating.
In computing your grade for the course each homework will have a weight
proportional to the time allocated to do that homework. So for example
if a homework is allocate one week and a second homework is allocated
two weeks, then the grade of the second homework will count twice
as much as the grade of the first homework.
The programming homeworks aim to develop and test your ability
to conceptualize and realize problem solutions using a variety of pre-existing
services as provided by a modern operating system (Unix).
Here are directives that I have given to
the TA when dealing with the homeworks. Please read this document
carefully.