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Lecture 1: Introduction, Taxonomy

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A taxonomy of distributed systems
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Single System Image, SISD, SIMD, MIMD, multiprocessors, multicomputers, bus, switch, interconnect, tightly-coupled, loosely-coupled, coherent memory, cache memory, write-through cache, snoopy cache, crossbar switch, omega network, NUMA, distributed system, centralized model, client-server model, workstation model, peer-to-peer model, processor pool model, thick clients, thin clients, two-tier architecture, n-tier architecture, location transparency, migration transparency, replication transparency, concurrency transparency, parallelism transparency, reliability, availability, performance, scalability.

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