CSE 486Prereq: CSE 331 and CSE 341
CSE 486: Distributed Systems
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- Principles of distributed computing including consensus protocols, replication, fault tolerance, distributed hash tables, MapReduce, and cloud computing architectures.
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- Computer Science and Engineering
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Professors who have taught CSE 486
- Bina Ramamurthy
- Ethan Blanton
- Hoanan Lu
- Steve Ko
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