Practically all computing systems, from fire alarms to Internet-scale services, are nowadays distributed: they consist of a number of computing units performing independent computations and communicating with each other to synchronize their activities. Our dependence on performance and reliability of distributed systems becomes more and more imminent. Therefore, understanding fundamentals of distributed computing is of crucial importance.
This course is devoted to the use of combinatorial topology, the approach that has recently been used to close several long-standing open questions in distributed computability. The course is based on the textbook by Maurice Herlihy, Dmitry Kozlov, and Sergio Rajsbaum, "Distributed Computing through Combinatorial Topology".
- Enseignant responsable de l'UE: Petr Kuznetsov