CS 623 - Cloud Computing

Units: 3
Cloud computing theory and protocols. Topics may include: Infrastructure/Platform/Software - as-a-service, cloud OS, architectures including Federated Clouds, principles of Virtualization platforms, security / privacy issues, Internet of things / data-intensive computing. Programming projects and review of literature.

Prerequisites: CS 421 or CS 621.
Credit Restrictions: Computer Science M.S. or B.S. students only.
Equivalent Quarter Course: CS 6593.
Possible Instructional Methods: Entirely On-ground.
Grading: A-F grading only.
Student Learning Outcomes - Upon successful completion of this course students will be able to:

Improve the design and conduct experiments as well as to analyze and interpret data.
Evaluate the security and privacy issues in cloud computing.
Deploy applications over commercial cloud computing infrastructures such as Amazon Web Services, Windows Azure, and Google AppEngine.
Program data intensive parallel applications in the cloud.
Demonstrate how to design and program cloud services as well as how to build and administer cloud systems.