Type of course

Admission requirements

Course content

Recommended prerequisites

Objectives of the course

Knowledge:

• Knowledge of the main topics of distributed systems at an introductory level.
• Knowledge of the central challenges of distributed systems, their behavior, characteristics, advantages and disadvantages.
• Knowledge of the primary ideas, architectures, designs, and implementations of distributed systems
• Knowledge of some select cases of distributed systems
• The best way to learn how to build distributed systems is by practice, and so an important part of the course is a substantial distributed system design and implementation project.

Skills:

• Skills in systems-level programming. How to build a working prototype of a non-trivial distributed system including its architecture, design, and implementation.
• Skills in the languages, frameworks, and tools used to build a prototype distributed system
• Skills to analyze real distributed systems, and identify central characteristics including performance scaling.
• Skills in presenting a system, giving a demonstration of it, and identify lessons learned.

General competence:

• Competence in selecting a suitable set of programming languages, frameworks, and tools for a given problem domain.
• Competence in asking relevant questions about computer based systems.

Language of instruction and examination

Teaching methods

Information to incoming exchange students

This course is open to incoming exchange students.

Study level: Master’s

Admission prerequisites:
This course has admission prerequisites, which are listed under the Admission requirements section. Please review this information carefully before adding the course to your Learning Agreement.

For details on how to apply for exchange, course selection guidelines, or to contact the Incoming Admissions Team, please visit: Admissions for Student Exchange.