Agenda

• Announcements
  • Class of 60's Talks this week. Make an effort to attend and spread the word. These should be good talks.
  • Term Project talk schedule is UP.
• Encryption
• Distributed Systems
  • Network OS vs. Distributed OS
  • Types of transparency for a distributed OS:
    • access transparency
    • location transparency
    • migration transparency
    • concurrency transparency
    • replication transparency
    • parallelism transparency
    • failure transparency - fault tolerance
    • performance transparency
    • size transparency - scalability
  • Distributed File Systems
    • NFS
    • AFS
    • Caching
    • Stateful vs. Stateless
    • Replication
    • Parallel File Systems
• Course Evaluations

Links

• OpenSSH
• MIT Distribution Center for PGP (Pretty Good Privacy)
• RC5 at distributed.net
• RSA Laboratories' Frequently Asked Questions About Today's Cryptography
• AFS Access Rights
• OpenAFS
• IBM General Parallel File System (GPFS), in particular look at the technical paper. For IBM AIX and Linux.
• The Parallel Virtual File System (PVFS). For Linux.
• Sistina Global File System (GFS). For Linux.