Spring 2025
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Course No: MSIT.5650-031; SIS Class Nbr: 13216; SIS Term: 3430
Course Status: Registration Pending
Course Description
This course starts with an overview of modern distributed models, exposing the design principles, systems architecture, and innovative applications of parallel, distributed, and cloud computing systems. The course will focus on the creation and maintenance of high-performance, scalable, reliable systems, providing comprehensive coverage of distributed and cloud computing, including: Facilitating management, debugging, migration, and disaster recovery through virtualization. Clustered systems for research or ecommerce applications. Designing systems as web services. Principles of cloud computing using examples from open-source and commercial applications.
Prerequisites, Notes & Instructor
- Prerequisites: Students must already have completed a bachelor's degree in a related discipline to enroll in this course and in a graduate career.
- Credits: 3; Contact Hours: 3
- Instructor: Robert Bell
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UMass Lowell Bookstore
When Offered & Tuition
- Online Course
- 2025 Spring: Jan 21 to May 08
- Course Level: Graduate
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Tuition: $1800
- Note: There is a $30 per semester registration fee for credit courses.
Related Programs: M.S. in Information Technology, Graduate Certificate in Cybersecurity, M.S. in Security Studies: Cybersecurity Concentration, Graduate Certificate in Systems Models & Management
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