Handbook

Analyse and evaluate interprocess communications in networks, and associated programming interfaces;

Analyse and evaluate remote procedure call and remote object request broker mechanisms in distributed systems;

Analyse and model basic problems in distributed computing, especially in relation to concurrency, parallelism, synchronisation, deadlocks, and safety properties;

Analyse and evaluate differences between various distributed computing models and widely used distributed computing schemes;

Analyse, evaluate and model basic functional and performance concepts in distributed systems and identify frequent causes of performance problems in distributed applications;

Analyse and model basic software and hardware reliability problems in distributed systems and identify frequent causes of reliability problems in distributed applications;

Analyse and evaluate some of the enabling technologies e.g. high-speed links, for building computer clusters, distributed storage systems, grids and clouds;

Analyse and evaluate the operating principles of the cloud computing, grid computing, clustering, and web services middleware used to implement large distributed systems, including basic security mechanisms;

Analyse and model in application scalability in distributed systems, and criteria for porting applications to distributed systems;

Implement programs using common distributed computing programming interfaces, including sockets, and some higher level APIs.