CSCI 365 - Large Scale Computing

3 Credit(s)

This course provides students with an introduction to the design, development, and management of large-scale applications. Different architectures of large-scale systems are discussed, the main focus being IBM mainframes. Students learn software design considerations for large scale applications and implement them in the COBOL programming language. Programming lab assignments make up a majority of the assigned course work. Topics include data sets, data organization/ access methods, job control language, COBOL programming, transaction processing, hierarchical and relational databases, high availability, and security.
Prerequisite(s): CSCI 247 or CSCI 257.