Principles of Distributed Computing | DISCO - ETH Zurich

Explore the fundamental principles and techniques of distributed computing, essential for modern computing and communications systems.

Introduction

Distributed computing is essential in modern computing and communications systems. This lecture collection introduces the principles of distributed computing, emphasizing the fundamental issues underlying the design of distributed systems and networks: communication, coordination, fault-tolerance, locality, parallelism, self-organization, symmetry breaking, synchronization, and uncertainty.

Highlights

• Explore essential algorithmic ideas and lower bound techniques, the "pearls" of distributed computing
• Presented in an easy-to-read set of lecture notes
• Includes complete exercises and solutions

Recommendation

This course is recommended for those interested in understanding the fundamental principles and techniques of distributed computing, which are essential in modern computing and communications systems.