15-719 Advanced Cloud Computing: Syllabus

Tentative Schedule

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Lecture Date Lecturer Topics Required readings Optional readings Notes
1 Wed 01/17 All Introduction and Use cases
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Armbrust2010, NISTdef2011 NISTref2011, Rackspace12, Shafii12, DeanSOSP2015, Cano2016, Vieira12, Vogels16, Clarke12, reiss12
2 Mon 01/22 Greg Elasticity
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Vaquero11 Ferguson12, Rajagopalan13, Das13 Only Sections 1-6 from Das13 are suggested. Project 1 is introduced and released.
3 Wed 01/24 Majd and George Building a Carnegie Mellon cloud and Openstack
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sotomayor2009 Nurmi09, Chase07, OpenStack16
4 Mon 01/29 Majd and George Programming Models and Frameworks I
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Dean2004, Zaharia10 Yu08, Low10, Abadi16 Project 1 is due. Project 2-1 is introduced.
5 Wed 01/31 Michael Kozuch (Intel Labs, guest) Encapsulating computation
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Barham03 Felter14, Goldberg74, Chen01, Agesen10, Wang16 Project 2-1 released.
6 Mon 02/05 George Storage in the cloud I
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Ghemawat03 Beaver10, Abe10
7 Wed 02/07 Greg and George Storage in the cloud II
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Alba14 Thereska13, Gao09, Harter16, Ren13 Project 2-1 due. Project 2-2 released.
8 Mon 02/12 Michael Kaminsky (Intel Labs, guest) Key-Value Stores
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Andersen09 Fan13 Project 2-3 is introduced.
9 Wed 02/14 Padmanabhan (Babu) Pillai (Intel Labs, guest) Mobility and the Cloud
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Satyanarayanan09 Clinch12, Ha13, Simoens13, Ha13a Only Sections 1-3 from Ha13 are suggested. Project 2-2 due. Project 2-3 released.
10 Mon 02/19 Greg Programming Models and Frameworks II
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Low10 Zaharia10, Yu08, Abadi16
11 Wed 02/21 Greg Scheduling I
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Gulati12 Tumanov16, Ghodsi11, Reiss12
12 Mon 02/26 Greg and Majd Scheduling II
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Vavilapalli13, Hindman11 Schwarzkopf13, Karanasos15 Project 2-3 due.
13 Wed 02/28 Rodric Rabbah (IBM Research, guest) Function as a service
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Baldini2017 chapter Baldini2017 paper Videos - Compose1, Compose2, Compose3, Composer, Hello
14 Mon 03/05 All Review
Wed 03/07 All Exam 1
Exam1 F13 Q, Exam1 F14 Q, Exam1 S16 Q, Exam1 S17 Q Exam1 F13 A, Exam1 F14 A, Exam1 S16 A, Exam1 S17 A Exam 1 covers all material up to and including the week before the exam, including the projects. Try taking the Practice exams without looking at the answers.
15 Mon 03/12 None No class (spring break)
16 Wed 03/14 None No class (spring break)
17 Mon 03/19 All Exam 1 debrief
Exam1 Solutions Project 3 introduced; slides available here
18 Wed 03/21 Justine Sherry (CS Professor, guest) Middleboxes as a Service
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Sherry2012, Palkar2015 Project 3-1 released.
19 Mon 03/26 Greg Diagnosis via monitoring & tracing
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Sambasivan16 Massie04, Sigelman10, Chow14
20 Wed 03/28 Majd Tail latency & interference
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Dean13 Xu13 Project 3-2 released. Project 3-1 due.
21 Mon 04/02 George Reliability & fault tolerance
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Schneider90 Candea04, Vishwanath10, Schroeder07
22 Wed 04/04 Greg Geo-replication
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Lloyd13 Azure11, Lloyd13a, Baillis13, DeCandia07 Only Chapters 1-3 from Lloyd13.
23 Mon 04/09 George Networking
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Greenberg09, Mysore09 Jain13, koponen10, Vasudevan09, Singh15 Only Section 3 from Greenberg09, Sections 1-2 from Mysore09, Sections 1-4 from Jain13.
24 Wed 04/11 Bryan Parno (ECE Professor, guest) Formal Verification of Cloud Services
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Hawblitzel2014 Hawblitzel2015, Bhargavan2017
25 Mon 04/16 Alex Glikson (CS staff engineer, guest) Kubernetes
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Burns2016
26 Wed 04/18 Marcus Fontoura (Microsoft, guest) Resource Central
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Cortez2017 Gao2014, Lo2015, Wu2016, Crankshaw2017 Projects 3-3 and 3-4 released on 04/19. Project 3-2 due. Project 3-3 due on 04/20.
27 Mon 04/23 Greg Exploiting Spot Pricing
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Harlap17 Harlap18, Sharma16
28 Wed 04/25 George Supercomputing
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Neely2014 Putnam2015, Caulfield2016, Jouppi2017 Project 3-4 due on 04/27.
29 Mon 04/30 All Review
Wed 05/02 All Exam 2
Exam2 F13 Q, Exam2 F14 Q, Exam2 F14 2 Q, Exam2 S16 Q, Exam2 S17 Q Exam2 F13 A, Exam2 F14 A, Exam2 F14 2 A, Exam2 S16 A, Exam2 S17 A Exam 2 covers all material up to and including the week before the exam, including the projects. Try taking the Practice exams without looking at the answers.
30 Mon 05/07 None No class meeting
Exam2 Solutions
31 Wed 05/09 None No class meeting

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