BCA Semester IV - Distributed and Cloud Computing

Unit I

Examples of Distributed Systems–Trends in Distributed Systems – Focus on resource sharing –

Challenges. Case study: World Wide Web.

System Model – Interprocess Communication – the API for internet protocols – External data

representation and Multicast communication.

Unit II

Network virtualization: Overlay networks. Case study: MPI Remote Method Invocation and

Objects: Remote Invocation – Introduction – Request-reply protocols – Remote procedure call –

Remote method invocation.

Case study: Java RMI – Group communication – Publish-subscribe systems – Message queues

– Shared memory approaches – Distributed objects – Case study: Enterprise Java Beans -from

objects to components.

Unit III

Introduction to Cloud Computing: Cloud Computing in a Nutshell, System Models for

Distributed and Cloud Computing, Roots of Cloud Computing, Grid and Cloud, Layers and Types

of Clouds, Desired Features of a Cloud, Basic Principles of Cloud Computing, Challenges and

Risks, Service Models.

Unit IV

Virtual Machines and Virtualization of Clusters and Data Centers: Levels of Virtualization,

Virtualization Structures Tools and Mechanisms, Virtualization of CPU, Memory and I/O

Devices, Virtual Clusters and Resource Management, Virtualization Data-Center Automation.

Case studies: Xen Virtual machine monitors- Xen API. VMware - VMware products-Vmware

Features.

Unit V

Cloud computing architectures over Virtualized Data Centers: Data-Center design and

Interconnection networks, Architectural Design of Compute and Storage Clouds, Public Cloud

Platforms, GAE, AWS, Azure, Inter-cloud Resource Management.