VL LSDC | Main / 184.271 VL Large-scale distributed computing 2013S

copyright TU WIEN, Vienna Scientific Cluster

25.02.2013

check out the timetable for the summer semester 2013

Summary of the Lecture

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In this lecture with lab (VL -- Vorlesung mit Laborübung) students will get an overview about relevant concepts, technologies and standards in the area of Large Scale Distributed Computing (LCDC). In particular we will cover all aspects of Cloud Computing infrastructures targeting arbitrary Cloud infrastructures and not particular Cloud products (e.g., Amazon products, Google App, etc.) Furthermore, the lecture will contain the basic knowledge necessary to apply LSDC in practice and to configure, use and apply LSDC in different application domains. The lecture will be held in either german or english language (depending on the liking of the audience). All written material such as assignments, tests, slides or further reading will be provided in english language.

In the theoretical part of the lecture we will cover following topics:

Overview about the most popular LSDC paradigms like High Performance Computing (HPC), Grid computing, Cloud Computing, global distributed computing, and voluntary computing, evolution of LSDS
Cloud Computing: delivery models, deployment types, etc.
Monitoring of Cloud infrastructures (application monitoring, VMs monitoring, hardware monitoring)
Cloud Programming Models (MapReduce, etc.)
Knowledge management in Clouds
Cloud federation mechanism
Cloud technologies (e.g., virtualization, SLAs)
Cloud business models, security, privacy and trust issues in Cloud computing
Compliance-based Cloud middleware
Green IT: energy efficient large-scale distributed systems
Market mechanisms in Cloud Computing (e.g., management of the market liquidity)

In the practical part the students will have to implement, deploy, and test a (prototype) application or middleware related to, and embedded into one of our research projects:

Check out tentative lab project topics.

The practical part will consist of one assignments and students will work in teams of 3. Lab projects will be announced according to the lecture and lab schedule.

For the course a registration in TISS Starting with March 2nd to April 21st 2012 is necessary. For any questions on the lecture please contact Ivona Brandic.

Maximum Number of Students

For organisatorial reasons the course is restricted to at most 50 students. Registration are given out first come - first served, according to registrations in TUWIS++. Please do not register for the course if you are not honestly interested in doing it.

Necessary Prior Knowledge

Students enrolling to this course should have the following prior knowledge:

Must have:

A solid background in procedural and object-oriented programming.
Already taken the introductory course of the Distributed Systems Lab, Lab Web site

Nice to have:

Basic knowledge of Web Services and Service-Oriented Architectures.

Generally, during the course it will be assumed that students have reasonable programming skills and know their way around in the distributed system area.

Lecturer

Ivona Brandic

Talk Announcement:

Titel: Zertifizierte Cloud durch das EuroCloud Star Audit SaaS: Ein Best Practice-Ansatz zur Auswahl eines vertrauenswürdigen Cloud-Anbieters

Zeit: Dienstag, 10. Mai 2011, ab 17:00 Uhr

Ort: Forschungsgruppe Scientific Computing, Raum C316 des UZA IV, Nordbergstraße 15/C/3, 1090 Wien

Vortragender: Dr. Tobias Höllwarth (Eurocloud, Auditierung & Zertifizierung)

Details: http://www.ocg.at/ak/cloud/news.html

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