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COSC 420 - Distributed and Parallel Computing

Credit Hours: 4
Frequency of Offering: Offered in alternate years, usually in the fall semester

This course studies the methods for using several computers connected by a network to solve a single problem. Topics include networking services, middleware (CORBA, DCOM, SOAP, RMI and RPC), two- and three-tier client-server systems, algorithms for parallel computing, performance evaluation and hardware architectures (clusters, grids, surfaces).

Prerequisite(s): COSC 201  or permission of the instructor.


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