Additional information about this course can be found on WWW at URL
http://www.cis.temple.edu/~ingargio/cis307/
A detailed discussion of cis4307 as it relates to the ACM2001 suggested
curricula is here.
The course has a discussion board on Blackboard.
It meets
on Tuesday and Thursday from 12:30pm to 1:50pm in Tuttleman 1A.
The laboratory is on Monday from 2:00pm to 3:50pm.
All labs are in CC207.
Instructor: | Dr. Giorgio P. Ingargiola |
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Office: | Wachman Hall, Room 1038 |
Phone: | (215)204-6825 |
E-Mail: | giorgio@temple.edu |
Contact Hours: | Tuesday and Thursday from 10:30am to 12:00pm or by appointment, or take your chances and drop by |
Teaching Assistant: | Vladan Radosavljevic |
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Office: | room 1000M Wachman Hall |
Phone: | 215-204-5773 [215-204-3950 in room 1000M] |
Homework: Use drop box in Blackboard | |
Questions E-Mail: | http://www.ist.temple.edu/~vladan |
Contact Hours: | Mondays from 12pm to 2pm, Wednesdays from 3pm to 5pm, Fridays from 10am to 12pm |
Home Page: | TBS |
Ombudsperson: | TBS |
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Office: | Room 210 Wachman Hall |
Phone: | 215-204-1146 |
E-Mail: | TBS |
Contact Hours: | TBS |
The grievance procedures are available online |
Miscellaneous: Our first class is on Tuesday, September 1
and the last
class is on Tuesday, December 8.
The last day to drop the course (and get tuition refund) is
Monday, September 14.
The last day to withdraw from the course (no refund) is Monday ,
November 2.
Students who have previously withdrawn from this course, or who have
already withdrawn from 5 courses since September 2003 may not withdraw.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.
Freedom to teach and freedom to learn are inseparable facets
of academic freedom. The University has adopted a policy on
Student and Faculty Academic Rights and Responsibilities
(Policy # 03.70.02) which can be accessed through the
following link:
http://policies.temple.edu/getdoc.asp?policy_no=03.70.02
PREREQUISITES
CIS2166, CIS3207, and CIS3223 must have been completed
with a grade of C or better before beginning cis4307.
RECOMMENDED TEXTBOOKS
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
lack of shared memory, partial failures, global state, 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: | 20% | Eleven tests (only your top 10 scores are used in computing your grade) |
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Midterm1: | 10% | [Thursday, October 8] |
Midterm2: | 10% | [Thursday, November 5] |
Final: | 35% | Thursday, December 17, 10:30am-12:30am. Exam is in our regular classroom. |
Homeworks: | 25% |
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 ten 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 other exams will become
proportionally more important.
If you miss a midterm without previous agreement and without definite
proof as to the medical or legal reasons, you will get a zero for that exam
grade. The final exam is mandatory. Examples of
questions from past exams are
available.
HOMEWORKS
You will be assigned about 5 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.
Group work
is not allowed, unless explicitly requested by instructor or TA. If you use
material you did not create, include detailed acknowledgement
as to the source. You will not receive credit for that
portion of your code.
Read and be familiar with 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.