Final Review

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Final Review

• CSE 486/586
• B.Ramamurthy

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Place and Time

• Date THU 05/08/2008,
• Time 0330 PM - 0630 PM,
• Place FILMOR 170
• Please bring
• 2 A4-size sheets of any information you may need.
• Pencils, pens and erasers.

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Topics

• Theme Distributed data and algorithm
• Selected topics
• Project 2 web services based design and
  implementation
• From test 1 DGC (Distributed garbage collection)
• Bluetooth protocol and applications
• Distributed file systems
• Grid computing Globus toolkit and fusion
  collaboratory
• Large scale distributed systems data-intensive
  computing, cloud computing, map reduce, Hadoop
  framework
• Peer-to-Peer computing
• WS-Membership and epidemic model (we will cover
  it next week)

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Format

• 3 major questions
• Large scale distributed systems (mapreduce etc.)
• Peer-to-peer distributed systems
• Epidemic model for membership and fault modeling
• 8 minor questions covering topics such as DGC,
  bluetooth, grid computing etc.

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Sample questions

• Sample Minor question
• What is the difference between a web service and
  grid service?
• Why cant you use reference count method for DGC?
• Sample major question
• Design a solution for a word problem using
  MapReduce.