JAWAHARLAL NEHRU TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY HYDERABAD 
IV Year B.Tech. CSE -I Sem T P C 
4+1* 0 4 
ADVANCED COMPUTING CONCEPTS 
(ELECTIVE - II) 

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UNIT I 

Grid Computing : Data & Computational Grids, Grid Architectures and its relations to various Distributed Technologies 

UNIT II 

Autonomic Computing, Examples of the Grid Computing Efforts (IBM). 

UNIT III 

Cluster setup & its Advantages, Performance Models & Simulations; Networking Protocols & I/O, Messaging systems. 

UNIT IV 

Process scheduling, Load sharing and Balancing; Distributed shared memory, parallel I/O . 

UNIT - V 

Example cluster System - Beowlf; Cluster Operating systems: COMPaS and NanOS 

UNIT - VI 

Pervasive Computing concepts & Scenarios; Hardware & Software; Human - machine interface. 

UNIT - VII 

Device connectivity; Java for Pervasive devices; Application examples 

UNIT - VIII 

Classical Vs Quantum logic gates ;One ,two & three QUbit Quantum gates; Fredkin & Toffoli gates ;Quantum circuits; Quantum algorithms. 

TEXT BOOK : 

1. J. Joseph & C. Fellenstein:’ Grid Computing ‘, Pearson Education. 
2. J.Burkhardt et .al :’Pervasive computing’ Pearson Education 
3. Marivesar:’Approaching quantum computing ‘, Pearson Education. 

REFERENCES : 

1. Raj Kumar Buyya:’High performance cluster computing’, Pearson Education. 
2. Neilsen & Chung L:’Quantum computing and Quantum Information’, Cambridge University Press. 
3. A networking approach to Grid Computing , Minoli, Wiley.