CS574 Final Exam Topics

• File systems: FFS, ReiserFS, Embedded I-nodes
• Mutual exclusion: Monitors
• Security: DES, RSA, Kerberos, breaking in
• Interprocess communication: RPC, MPI, CORBA
• Memory Consistency: Alewife, Treadmarks, Models
• Time: Lamport, Virtual Time
• Distributed File Systems: NFS, DCE, XFS
• Distributed Computing: Distributed Realtime, ubiquitous computing
• Cluster Computing: Beowulf, Sprite, Mosix, Plan9, Clouds
• Theory: Petri Nets, distibuted deadlock