Faculty Name: Dr. Sathya Peri
Course Period: 02nd Jan to 05th May 2024
Number of Credits: 3 credits
Course Contents: The following presentation gives an overview of the course and the course contents: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1z-6Z8CREh4aRmFY0b7HuBx7H-s_6bEzUcUMVRMn4WQU/edit#slide=id.p1
What you'll learn: Basics of Distributed Programming and Computing.
About the Instructor: Dr. Sathya Peri is currently an Professor in CSE Department of IIT Hyderabad (IITH). His research interests broadly comprise of parallel and distributed systems. One of the areas he looks in efficient ways to parallelize using Software Transactional Memory Systems (STMs) while also exploring lock-free & wait-free algorithms. In the context of distributed systems, his interest includes Blockchain and Peer-to-Peer Systems. He is currently working on improving the efficiency of Smart Contract Execution in Blockchains Systems.
Instructor Profile
Familiarity with Multi-threading and Sockets