Last updated @ 1/14/2008

Contact info

• Office hours: Thursday 2 - 4 PM in IST 310
• Email: Please put "IST411" in the title so that I can respond promptly

Some useful readings

• Some fundamentals on multithreaded programming
• An Introduction to Distributed Computing
• The Spring Framework
• MapReduce - The distributed computing framework of Google
• More on MapReduce, here and here
• Hadoop: an open source distributed computing platform used by Yahoo etc.

On homework and lab assignments

• How to Run MultithreadedHelloWorld in 10 Minutes