CS865 – Distributed Software Development

Report 2

Complete the following assignment and email the report to fmarchese@pace.edu

Write a two page executive summary. The document should be two pages, single-spaced, with 1” margins, and saved in RTF format. The paper’s main heading should contain your name, date, and email address.

Topics

Compare and contrast VMware (Sugerman et al., 2001) and Xen (website) (Barham et al., 2003).

Compare and contrast where to Implement multicast - Network Layer (IP) vs Application Layer

Compare and contrast two approaches to distributed hash tables (see Balakrishnan et al. (2003) and the Chord system (Stoica et al., 2003 ).

Compare and contrast Ricart & Agrawala’s and Lin et al.’s 2004 algorithm’s for mutual exclusion.