ECE 536

Computer Software Systems

Spring 2012

Course Go Online!

ECE536 will be online and also meet every Tue/Thu at 8:00am in-class (optional for online people).

Course Description:

Course considers design principles, implementation issues, and performance evaluation of system software in advanced computing environments. Topics include resource allocation and scheduling, information service provider and manipulation, multithreading and concurrency, security for distributed systems.

Instructor:

Instructor	Dr. Wei Wennie Shu
Office	Room 224C, ENGR(ECE)
Phone	505-277-1433
E-mail	shu(AT)ece.unm.edu
Homepage	http://www.ece.unm.edu/~shu

Textbook:

Required:
- George Coulouris, Jean Dollimore and Tim Kindberg, Distributed Systems --- Concepts and design, 5^th edition, ISBN 0132143011/9780132143011, Addison-Wesley, 2012.
Other References:
- Kai Hwang, Jack Dongarra & Geoffrey C. Fox, Distributed and Cloud Computing: From Parallel Processing to the Internet of Things , ISBN 978-0-12-385880-1, Elsevier, 2011.
- Andrew S. Tanenbaum and Maarten van Steen, Distributed Systems: Principles and Paradigms,2^nd edition, ISBN 0132392275, Prentice-Hall, 2006.
- Keith Haviland, Dina Gray, Ben Salama, "UNIX: System Programming," second edition, ISBN 0-201-87758-9, Addison-Wesley, 1999. This is a good beginner's guide to software development on UNIX, presenting a detailed study of the programming interface between the UNIX kernel and application software running in the UNIX environment. What missing here is about threads.
- W. Richard Stevens, UNIX Network Programming, volume 1: Networking APIs: Sockets and XTI, 2nd edition, ISBN 0-13-490012-X, Prentice Hall, 1998.
- W. Richard Stevens, UNIX Network Programming, volume 2: Interprocess Communications, 2nd edition, ISBN 0-13-081081-9, Prentice Hall, 1999.

Course Information:

Course Number	ECE536
CRN	43122/41003
Lecture Place	ECE 210
Lecture Time	Online and Tue/Thu 8:00-9:15am
Homepage	http://www.ece.unm.edu/~shu/course/536s12/
Prerequisites	both ECE331 and ECE337L Knowledge of OS & Networking

WebCt Page:

http://vista.unm.edu

Wei Wennie Shu, shu@ece.unm.edu