IST 402H: Cloud Computing (Spring 2011)

 

Dongwon Lee, Ph.D.

PIKE Research Group @ IST

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[ Last Updated: 4/20/11 11:42 AM ]

 

Week

Dates

Contents

Downloads

References

Assignments

Assigned

DUE

1

1/10, 1/12

Introduction of the course and Cloud Computing (CC)

syllabus.pdf

l-cc1.ppt

o   What is Cloud Computing? Salesforce.com, 2009

o   Above the Clouds: A Berkeley View of Cloud Computing, D. Patterson et. al, UC Berkeley, 2010

o   Cloud Computing, Google D. C. Talk, 2008

HW#1

 

2

1/17 (MLK), 1/19

More Basics on CC

l-cc2.ppt

o   Cloud Computing, B. Hayes, ACM CACM 2008

o   Cloud Computing: An Overview, M. Creeger, ACM QUEUE, 2009

 

HW#1

l-3

1/24, 1/26

XML, the glue for CC

l-xml1.ppt

l-xml2.ppt

o   A Technical Introduction to XML, N. Walsh, WWWJ, 1998

o   The New Role of XML in Cloud Data Integration, R. Knight, 2009

o   JSON: The Fat-Free Alternative to XML, D. Crockford, XML Conf. 2006

HW#2

 

4

1/31, 2/2

Structuring and Querying Data in CC

l-xml-schema.ppt

l-xpath.ppt

o   XML Schema Tutorial, w3schools.com

o   DTD, XML Schema, and DSD, A. Moller and M. Schwartzbach, 2008

o   XPath Tutorial, zvon.org

 

 

5

2/7, 2/9

Web Services in CC

l-ws.ppt

o   Introduction to Web Services, L. Ananthamurthy, 2002

o   Programming Amazon Web Services: S3, EC2, SQS, FPS, and SimpleDB, J. Murty, 2008

 

HW#2

6

2/14 (IST Future Forum), 2/16

CC at Industries (Yahoo, Microsoft, IBM, Salesforce, etc)

Joyent,

Weebly,

Amazon,

Office Live

o   Yahoo Cloud Computing

o   Windows Azure

o   Salesforce Cloud Computing

o   IBM Cloud Computing

o   GoGrid Cloud Computing

 

 

7

2/21, 2/23

RSS/Atom & Google App Engine (PaaS)

l-rss.ppt

l-gae.ppt

o   RSS Specification

o   Google App Engine (GAE)

HW#3

Proj #1

 

8

2/28, 3/2

Amazon Web Services (IaaS)

l-aws.ppt

o   Amazon Web Services (AWS)

o   AWS SDK for Java in AWS Toolkit for Eclipse Tutorial Video

 

 

9

3/7, 3/9

Spring Break

10

3/14, 3/16

Parallel Programming in CC: MapReduce/Hadoop

l-mapreduce.ppt

o   MapReduce: Simplified Data Processing on Large Clusters, J. Dean and S. Ghemawat, OSDI, 2004

o   Hadoop Tutorial, Yahoo, 2010

o   MapReduce and Parallel DBMSs: Friends or Foes?, M. Stonebraker et al., ACM CACM 2010

HW#3

11

3/21, 3/23

Project Discussion &

Virtualization in CC

(guest lecture by Prof. J. Ryoo)

l-v.ppt

o   What is Virtualization?, ZDNet

o   The Reincarnation of Virtual Machines, M. Rosenblum, ACM QUEUE, 2004

o   Why Virtualization is the Foundation of Cloud Computing? C. Poelker, ComputerWorld, 2009

o   Cloud Computing and the Lessons from the Past, R. Mikkilineni and V. Sarathy, IEEE Workshop on Enabling Tech., 2009

 

12

3/28, 3/30

Parallel Programming in CC: Amazon Elastic MapReduce

l-aws-mapreduce.ppt

o   Amazon Elastic MapReduce

13

4/4, 4/6

Apache

Pig: high-level parallel data processing language

l-pig.ppt

o   Apache Hive

o   Yahoo Pig and Pig Lartin

14

4/11, 4/13

Policy/Legal issues in CC (guest lecture by Prof. J. Bagby)

l-policy.ppt

o   Trusting the Cloud, C. Cachin, I. Keidar, and A. Shraer, ACM SIGACT News, 2009

HW#4

15

4/18, 4/20

Privacy/Security issues in CC (guest lecture by Prof. A. Squicciarini)

l-sec.pdf

final-review.pdf

o   Cloud Computing and Software Security, U. Erlingsson, Google Faculty Summit, 2010

o   Privacy in the Clouds: Risks to Privacy and Confidentiality from Cloud Computing, R. Gellman, 2009

 

Proj #1

16

4/25, 4/27

Project Presentation

 

 

 

HW#4

17

5/2 (Mon) 10:10A-12:00P @ 409 Burrowes

Final Exam Week

 

 

Academic Integrity:

 

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  • cheating
  • plagiarism
  • fabrication of information or citations
  • facilitating acts of academic dishonesty by others
  • unauthorized prior possession of examinations
  • submitting the work of another person or work previously used without informing the instructor and securing written approval
  • tampering with the academic work of other students

 

In cases where academic integrity is questioned, Penn State's policy on academic integrity requires that the instructor give the student notice of the charge as well as the recommended sanction. Procedures allow the student to accept or contest the charge through discussions with the instructor. If a student chooses to contest, the case will then be managed by the respective College or Campus Academic Integrity Committee. If a disciplinary sanction also is recommended, the case will be referred to the Office of Judicial Affairs.

 

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http://www.psu.edu/dept/oue/aappm/G-9.html

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Nondiscrimination and Harassment:

 

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