15-719 Advanced Cloud Computing: Syllabus

Tentative Schedule

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Lecture	Date	Lecturer	Topics	Required readings	Optional readings	Notes
1	Mon 01/13	Greg and Majd	Introduction, Use cases, and Elasticity [pdf]	Armbrust2010, NISTdef2011, Vaquero11	NISTref2011, Rackspace12, Shafii12, DeanSOSP2015, Cano2016, Vieira12, Vogels16, Clarke12, reiss12, Ferguson12, Rajagopalan13, Das13
2	Wed 01/15	Majd	Building a Carnegie Mellon cloud and Openstack [pdf]	sotomayor2009	Nurmi09, Chase07, OpenStack16
	Mon 01/20	None	No class (MLK day)
3	Wed 01/22	Greg, Majd	Encapsulating computation	Barham03	Felter14, Goldberg74, Chen01, Agesen10, Wang16
4	Mon 01/27	Majd	Programming Models and Frameworks I	Dean2004, Zaharia10	Yu08, Abadi16, Jia19
5	Wed 01/29	Greg	Programming Models and Frameworks II	Li14	Abadi16, Narayanan19, Gibiansky17
6	Mon 02/03	Greg	Cloud storage	Shvachko10	Ghemawat03, Thereska13, Alba14, Gao09, Harter16, Kadekodi18, Park20
7	Wed 02/05	Greg, Majd	Data lakes and warehouses	Armbrust21	Tekiner21, Ramakrishnan17, AWSWhitepaper21, Behm22
8	Mon 02/10	Greg	Tail latency & interference	Dean13	Xu13
9	Wed 02/12	Greg	Geo-replication	Lloyd13	Azure11, Lloyd13a, Baillis13, DeCandia07, Corbett13	Only Chapters 1-3 from Lloyd13.
10	Mon 02/17	Greg, Majd	Key-Value Stores	Andersen09	Fan13
11	Wed 02/19	Greg, Majd	Mobility and the Cloud	Satyanarayanan09	Clinch12, Ha13, Simoens13, Ha13a
	Mon 02/24	All	Exam 1	Exam1 S20 Q, Exam1 S21 Q, Exam1 S22 Q, Exam1 S23 Q	Exam1 S20 A, Exam1 S21 A, Exam1 S22 A, Exam1 S23 A, Exam1 S24 A:719 S24 Exam1 solutions.pdf	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.
	Wed 02/26	None	No class (time for P2.2)
	Mon 03/03	None	No class (Spring break)
	Wed 03/05	None	No class (Spring break)
	Mon 03/10	All	Exam 1 Review
12	Wed 03/12	Greg and Majd	Scheduling I and MapReduce scheduling	Gulati12, Dean2004	Tumanov16, Jyothi16, Reiss12
13	Mon 03/17	Majd	Kubernetes	Burns2016	Qiao21
14	Wed 03/19	Greg and Majd	Scheduling II and YARN Scheduling	Hindman11, Vavilapalli13	Schwarzkopf13, Karanasos15
15	Mon 03/24	Majd	YARN Scheduling	Hindman11, Vavilapalli13	Schwarzkopf13, Karanasos15
16	Wed 03/26	Hojin Park	MACARON - Multi-cloud/region Aware Cache Auto-ReconfiguratiON	Jain23	Waldspurger17, Eytan20, Kadekodi18
17	Tue 04/01	Suhas Jayaram Subramanya	ML Cluster Scheduling and the Sia Scheduler	Jayaram23
18	Thu 04/03	Greg	Diagnosis via monitoring & tracing	Sambasivan16	Massie04, Sigelman10, Chow14, Gan21
19	Tue 04/08	Ippokratis Pandis (Senior Principal Engineer, Amazon Web Services)	Practical use of machine Learning in Amazon Redshift	Armenatzoglou2022	Gupta2015, Cai2018, Verbitski2017, Verbitski2018, Dageville2016, Parchas2020, Sudalairaj2024
20	Thu 04/10	Carlos Costa (Research Staff Member, IBM)	Building a Cloud-Native Platform for the Future of AI	Gershon2023 2	Le2022, Murphy2023, PyTorch2024
21	Tue 04/15	Dimitrios Skarlatos	Cloud Co-location and Attacks on Public Cloud [pdf]	Ristenpart09	Zhao24
22	Thu 04/17	Greg, Majd	vSAN by way of RADIO	Fink2017, Gupta2017, vSAN-Note	Amit2020, Smolyar2020, Panwar2021, Calciu2021, Hildenbrand2023, Aguilera2023, Gosakan2023
	Sat 04/19	All	Exam 2 Q & A
	Tue 04/22	All	Exam 2	Exam2 S20 Q, Exam2 S21 Q, Exam2 S22 Q, Exam2 S23 Q, Exam2 S24 Q	Exam2 S20 A, Exam2 S21 A, Exam2 S22 A, Exam2 S23 A, Exam2 S24 A:719 S24 Exam2 a.pdf	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.
23	Thu 04/24	Vipul Modi (Microsoft)	Microsoft’s AI Infrastructure - Insider overview	Kumar20	Shukla22
	Wed 04/30	All	Exam 2 solutions