| Course: | CS 244B: DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS |
| Instructor: | Dr. Peter B. Danzig |
| Department: | Computer Science |
| Institution: | Stanford |
| Textbooks: | Selected Papers |
| Level: | Advanced Undergraduate/Beginning Graduate |
| Duration: | 12 week course (4 hours per week) |
| Prerequisites: | Introduction to computer networking, CS244a Undergraduate Operating Systems with C Programming, CS140 Grraduate Operating Systems, CS240 |
| Offered: | Spring |
| Course URL: | http://www.stanford.edu/class/cs244b/ |
From Instructor:
Essentially all computer systems distribute state and computation across networked elements. We will read thirty research papers on distributed systems and another dozen "white" papers about today's distributed file systems and distributed Internet systems.