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Cloud Computing and Distributed Systems: Overview

Dive into the fundamentals of distributed systems and cloud computing, with a focus on theoretical concepts and practical applications. Targeted at senior undergraduates, MS, and junior PhD students.

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Cloud Computing and Distributed Systems: Overview

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  1. Cloud Computing and Distributed Systems: Overview V. Arun CICS, UMass Amherst

  2. What is the course about? • Goals: • Fundamental principles of distributed systems • Practice as reflected in popular cloud services • Principles  learn theoretical concepts • Practice  learn how to build distributed systems

  3. Who is this course for? • First course in distributed systems targeted at • Senior undergrads • MS or junior PhD students • Pre-requisites • Operating systems (required) • Algorithms (strongly encouraged) • Course material • Text: Distribtued Systems: Principles and Paradigms (3rd edition), Tanenbaum and Van Steen • Lecture notes, papers, additional reading posted

  4. Course websites • Piazza: class forum for questions • Do NOT email instructors; use Private Note to Instructors • Gradescope: for assignment submission • Moodle: for aggregate grades • Class website: http://www.cs.umass.edu/~arun/590CC

  5. Course work • https://people.cs.umass.edu/~arun/590CC/home.html • iClicker required for class participation starting next class (Sep 5). Get one and register on Moodle ASAP. • No makeups allowed if you miss class • Bulk of credit for participation, not correct answers • Policies: • Incomplete policy: none offered • Late submission policy: none allowed • Academic honesty policy: strictly enforced • all work should be your own unless teams explicitly permitted

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