CS270B - Advanced Topics in Distributed Systems
This course provides an introduction to the basic problems in distributed systems and the various tools used to solve them. Of primary interest is the issue of fault-tolerance. Topics include event ordering, clocks, synchronization, mutual exclusion, agreement, and fault-tolerance. 

CS274 - Advanced Topics in Database Systems    
Topics include: data models, semantics; data integrity; database design; serializability theory, concurrency control, recovery, distributed databases.

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CS595J - Topics on Distributed Systems and Databases
Topics include: 

• P2P architecture for data sharing
• MEMS-based storage systems
• Estimation and summarization of stream data
• Hardware acceleration of database operations
• Datacubes and OLAP
• Sequence matching in bioinformatics
  
  

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