Quarter
Course Type
Course Area
Systems
Enrollment Code
56424
Location
Phelps 2510
Units
4
Day and Time
TR 11:00a-12:50p
Course Description

The course itself will combine, lectures, assigned  reading, and in-class discussion with a quarter-long software development project that attempts to familiarize the student with the strengths and weaknesses of current approaches to cloud computing.  In addition, students will be expected to describe the research challenges they have identified as a result of their experiences in the course in both written and oral presentation formats.

Specific topics the course will cover include

-- Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)
-- Platform as a Service (PaaS)
-- Public, Private, and hybrid clouds
-- Amazon AWS
-- Microsoft Azure
-- Google App Engine
-- Condor High Throughput Computing
-- Eucalyptus
-- AppScale
-- Data center virtualization and bare-metal provisioning
-- Software Defined Networking

as well as other applications and subsystems that have applicability to cloud
computing.