CS 651Data-Intensive Distributed Computing
- Units
- 0.50
- Level
- Graduate
- Faculty
- Mathematics
- Subject
- Computer Science
CS 651 as listed in the Fall 2025 Graduate Calendar. The main page has the current version, when it runs, and seats.
Introduces students to infrastructure for data-intensive computing, with a focus on abstractions, frameworks, and algorithms that allow developers to distribute computations across many machines. Topics include core concepts (partitioning, replication, locality, consistency), computational models (MapReduce, dataflows, stream processing, bulk-synchronous parallel), and applications.
Prerequisites
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