INF5510 – Distributed objects

Course content

Presentation of fundamental concepts of distributed objects including local and distributed objects, remote object invocation, communication, parameter passing principles, garbage collection, performance issues and typical applications. We also cover advanced type systems including concepts such as immutability and its application to distributed programming and access control. We also discuss the design of language constructs for parallelism. Throughout we use the programming language Emerald as a base. We dig into the implementation of distributed objects including virtual machines, compilation techniques, run-time typing, dynamic program loading, and how to do distributed garbage collection.

Learning outcome

At the end of the course the students will have sufficient understanding of distributed objects as to be able to write programs for a number of applications while employing advanced type systems and parallelism. Specifically, the students will be able to develop distributed programs running on a cluster of PC’s.

Admission

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Teaching

6 hours of lecture and 2 hours of exercises/computer lab per week.

Examination

Oral examination at the end of the semester.

Mandatory assignments must be approved in order to take the exam.

Examination support material

Any written exam resources are allowed.

Grading scale

Grades are awarded on a scale from A to F, where A is the best grade and F is a fail. Read more about the grading system.

Explanations and appeals

Resit an examination

Students who can document a valid reason for absence from the regular examination are offered a postponed examination at the beginning of