15-319/619 Cloud Computing

Frequency Offered: Generally offered every fall and spring semester - confirm course offerings for upcoming semesters by accessing the university Schedule of Classes.

Course Relevance (who should take this course?): This project-based on-line course focuses on skill building across various aspects of cloud computing. We cover conceptual topics and provide hands-on experience through projects utilizing public cloud infrastructures (Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform (GCP)). The adoption of cloud computing services continues to grow across a variety of organizations and in many domains. Students who are interested in adopting cloud resources or frameworks in their academic work or students who want to gain hands-on practical experience to improve their competitiveness in the big data/cloud job market.

• Cloud computing overview
• Public cloud infrastructures
• Virtualization
• Software defined networks and storage
• Cloud storage
• Programming models

Programming skills and knowledge of systems from 15-213

Sample class notes: not provided

Sample Assignment: not provided

• 15-319:
• 12 quizzes (20% of total)
• 10 individual projects (80% of total)
• 15-619:
• 12 quizzes (20% of total)
• 10 individual projects (60% of total)
• team project (20% of total)

Sample Lecture Recording: not provided

• the fundamental ideas behind Cloud Computing, the evolution of the paradigm, its applicability; benefits, as well as current and future challenges
• the basic ideas and principles in data center design; cloud management techniques and cloud software deployment considerations
• different CPU, memory and I/O virtualization techniques that serve in offering software, computation and storage services on the cloud; Software Defined Networks (SDN) and Software Defined Storage (SDS)
• cloud storage technologies and relevant distributed file systems, NoSQL databases and object storage;
• the variety of programming models and develop working experience in several of them.

Course Website: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~msakr/15619-s17/

• Open Learning Initiative for conceptual topics and assessments
• TheProject.Zone for all project work on cloud (AWS, Azure and GCP) platforms
• Piazza for Q&A and discussion
• Videos of recitations

• Prerequisites Required: 
• Minimum Grades in Prereqs:
• Corequisites: None
• Prerequisite for: None
• Anti-requisites: None
• Cross-Listed: None
• Substitutes: None
• Related Courses: None
• Reservations: Open only to students with internships