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Prof. Douglas Thain Email: dthain at nd dot edu Office: 384C Fitzpatrick Hall Office Hours: Mon 2-4PM and Fri 3-5PM |
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TA: Haihui Tan Email: htan2 at nd dot edu Office: Cushing 212 Office Hours: T/R 1-3PM |
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Course Overview
This class is an introduction to the theory and practice building large scale computer systems that harness hundreds or thousands for machines to attack problems of enormous scale. Such distributed systems are necessary to solve problems of such large size that they cannot complete in any reasonable time on a single machine. In recent years, these system have been known as clouds but have a much longer history known as distributed systems.Cloud computing encompasses a variety of modes of computing, including infrastructure and data center management, high throughput computing, distributed programming models, No-SQL storage, and more. We will take a tour of many of these topics by alternating with a high-level discussion of the principles, followed by case studies with a current technology.
Each assignment will involve designing a program or system that scales up to a large number of machines, using a variety of technologies. This will be a highly practical class, and should be enjoyable to any student who likes to write lots of code and make real systems work. Many students who take this class end up using these tools in their daily work. The class is open to juniors, seniors, and graduate students.
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