PRESENTAZIONE

The course provides the student with the technical and methodological tools to understand and describe the characteristics, functions and interactions of a Distributed System.

OBIETTIVI E CONTENUTI

OBIETTIVI FORMATIVI

The course aims to provide an understanding of the principles on which the Internet and other distributed systems are based, their architecture, algorithms and design, and how they meet the demands of contemporary distributed applications, including the following topics: Distributed systems characterization; Coordination of distributed systems; Physical and logical clock synchronization; Distributed mutual exclusion; Election algorithms and protocols; Consistency of distributed systems; Data centric systems; Client centric systems; Consistency protocols; Resilience of distributed systems; Distributed process pooling and resilience; Reliable distributed communication services; Distributed operation commit; Recovery of faulty systems; Case studies: Hyperledger permissioned blockchains, Google distributed storage and computation, In memory Distributed Data Store, Office online collaboration platforms.

OBIETTIVI FORMATIVI (DETTAGLIO) E RISULTATI DI APPRENDIMENTO

The course aims to provide an understanding of the principles on which the Internet and other distributed systems are based, their architecture, algorithms and design, and how they meet the demands of contemporary distributed applications, including the following topics: Distributed systems characterization; Coordination of distributed systems; Physical and logical clock synchronization; Distributed mutual exclusion; Election algorithms and protocols; Consistency of distributed systems; Data centric systems; Client centric systems; Consistency protocols; Resilience of distributed systems; Distributed process pooling and resilience; Reliable distributed communication services; Distributed operation commit; Recovery of faulty systems; Case studies: Hyperledger permissioned blockchains, Google distributed storage and computation, In memory Distributed Data Store, Office online collaboration platforms.

PREREQUISITI

Software platforms course.

MODALITA' DIDATTICHE

Lessons held in presence.

PROGRAMMA/CONTENUTO

1. Distributed systems characterization

2. Coordination of distributed systems

• Physical and logical clock synchronization
• Distributed mutual exclusion
• Election algorithms and protocols

3. Consistency of distributed systems

• Data centric systems
• Client centric systems
• Consistency protocols

4. Resilience of distributed systems

• Distributed process pooling and resilience
• Reliable distributed communication services
• Distributed operation commit
• Recovery of faulty systems

5. Case studies

• Hyperledger platform for permissioned blockchains
• Office/Spreadsheet online collaboration platform
• Kubernetes platform for the management of containerized workloads and services

TESTI/BIBLIOGRAFIA

Testi

Material provided during the course and made available through Aulaweb:

https://2024.aulaweb.unige.it/course/view.php?id=2625

DOCENTI E COMMISSIONI

LEZIONI

INIZIO LEZIONI

https://courses.unige.it/11160/p/students-timetable

Orari delle lezioni

L'orario di questo insegnamento è consultabile all'indirizzo: Portale EasyAcademy

ESAMI

MODALITA' D'ESAME

Oral discussion.

Please send an email to ask for an apointment.

MODALITA' DI ACCERTAMENTO

Oral discussion on the course topics.
Home work to be developed at the end of the lab activity.