News

2014-10-21: Security lecture posted.
2014-10-14: Twelth lecture of the course posted.
2014-10-10: The peer-to-peer lecture will be this Tuesday October 14. PGCom will be explained during the same lecture and Friday lecture is canceled. You can use that time to advance on PGCom or for working on the third assignment.
2014-10-06: Tenth lecture of the course posted.
2014-10-06: Third written assignment of the course posted.
2014-09-29: Ninth lecture and tutorial of the course posted.
2014-09-24: Eighth lecture and tutorial of the course posted.
2014-09-22: Seventh lecture of the course posted.
2014-09-22: Second written assignment of the course posted.
2014-09-19: Sixth lecture of the course posted.
2014-09-18: Annotated version of Group Communication lecture was posted in Cambro.
2014-09-16: Fifth lecture of the course posted.
2014-09-11: Fourth lecture of the course posted.
2014-09-09: Third lecture of the course posted.
2014-09-08: First written assignment of the course posted.
2014-09-04: Second lecture of the course posted.
2014-09-02: First (JavaRM) and second (GCom) projects posted. Start on time and have fun doing it!. You can receive feedback on your GCom design if you submit your design by September 19 (remember that this assignment is optional).
2014-09-01: First lecture of the course posted.
2014-09-01: The first lecture is going to be in Beteendevetarhuset 103
2014-08-25: Page initialized. Have fun, and learn a lot in the process!

Information

The guide for new students has relevant information about practical issues for the course. Including how to obtain an account for the department computer systems and how to transfer files between the computer system and your personal computer.

Regulations and policies

Textbook

There is no official textbook for the course. We will provide supporting reading material for the topics covered on each lecture. The book Distributed Systems, 5th ed. by Coulouris, Dollimore, Kindberg, and Blair (Addison-Wesley/Pearson Education), covers large parts of the contents of the course but not everything.

The Oracle's Java RMI tutorial is very helpful for learning about Java RMI.

Mailing list

Registered students are automatically members of the 5dv147(at)cs.umu.se mailing list. Anyone can send email to this address, which is why a direct link is not posted (since we don't want it to be filled with spam!). Important information will be sent to this list, so it is very important that you either:

Support has information on how to forward mail. If you run into problems, contact Support.

Acknowledgment

We would like to express our gratitude to Jonny Petterson, Daniel Espling, and Lars Larsson for their work in developing large parts of the course material.