Course Number:

Credit Hours:

4

Course Title:

Network Computing

Course Description:

Studies the theory and practice of analysis and design of network-based computing systems in which programs can be executed adaptively in a changeable computing environment, such as clusters of workstations or PCs. Includes distributed shared memory; cache coherence; snooping; locking; atomic exchange; deadlock; message passing interface (MPI-1 and MPI-2); point-to-point communication; collective communications; and groups, contexts, and communicators. Studies process topologies (virtual topologies), network of workstations (NOW), protocols and programming, scalable coherent interface (SCI) using point-to-point connection of distributed shared memory (DSM) machine, SCIs, cache coherence protocol, clusters of workstations based on SCI, scalable networks for data processing topologies, wormhole routing, deadlock avoidance, scalability, message format, fault tolerance, arbitration policies, and performance evaluation of network-based computing systems. Includes ServerNet, myrinet, and clusters of advanced workstations case studies.