CS 410/510 - CLOUD | Class Profile

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Description

Cloud computing has recently seen a lot of attention from research and industry for applications that can be parallelized on shared-nothing architectures and have a need for elastic scalability. As a consequence, new data management requirements have emerged with multiple solutions to address them. This course will look at the principles behind data management in the cloud as well as discuss actual cloud data management systems that are currently in use or being developed. The topics covered in the course range from novel data processing paradigms (MapReduce, Scope, DryadLINQ), to commercial cloud data management platforms (Google BigTable, Microsoft Azure, Amazon S3 and Dynamo, Yahoo PNUTS) and open-source NoSQL databases (Cassandra, MongoDB, Neo4J). The world of cloud data management is currently very diverse and heterogeneous. Therefore, our course will also report on efforts to classify, compare and benchmark the various approaches and systems. Students in this course will gain broad knowledge about the current state of the art in cloud data management and, through a course project, practical experience with a specific system.

General Information

Class Time and Location

Tuesday - Thursday, 10-11:50a
FAB 47

Textbook and Readings

NoSQL Distilled: A Brief Guide to the Emerging World of Polyglot Persistence. P Sadalage, M. Fowler

There will also be research papers assigned as readings.

Grading

Assignments - 48% (6 assignments - each 8%)
Some have extra parts for CS 510 students
Course Project - 48% (4 parts - each 12%)
Class Participation - 4%

Lectures & Attendance

Students are responsible for anything that transpires during a class. Class attendance is required. Presentation materials for the lectures often contain exercises and thought questions, answers to which may not be posted.

Collaboration Policy

Assignments will be done individually, unless explicitly specified otherwise. The programming project will be done in groups. You may discuss answers and solutions with other students, but the work submitted must be your own work or your own group's work for programming projects.

Students with Disabilities

If you have, or think you may have, a disability that may affect your work in this class and feel you need accommodations, contact the Disability Resource Center to schedule an appointment and initiate a conversation about reasonable accommodations. The DRC is located in 116 Smith Memorial Student Union, 503-725-4150, drc@pdx.edu, https://www.pdx.edu/drc.

** If you already have accommodations, please contact me to make sure that I have received a faculty notification letter and discuss your accommodations.

** Please be aware that the accessible tables or chairs in the room should remain available for students who find that standard classroom seating is not useable.

Academic Integrity

The PSU Student Code of Conduct http://www.pdx.edu/dos/codeofconduct will be enforced for this class. Students have the responsibility to be familiar with the code and to behave in accordance with the code.