National University of Singapore

DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE

CS5224 CLOUD COMPUTING

Schedule (AY2013/14 – Semester 2)

Wk

Date

Lecture: Tue 6.30-8.30pm,

COM1 #02-04

Others

1

14 Jan

L00: Overview

Part A: Principles of Cloud Computing

L01: Introduction

2

21 Jan

L02: Fundamental Concepts & Models

3

28 Jan

L02: Fundamental Concepts & Models

4

4 Feb

Part B: Technologies & Applications

L03: Technologies behind Cloud Computing

Assignment 1 (individual) (20%)  [dataspaces paper]

[solution & comments]

5

11 Feb

L04: Cloud Architectures

Handout – Chapter 3

6

18 Feb

L05: Cloud Infrastructure

Quiz (20%): closed book

Assignment 2 (group) – Business Case for Cloud Adoption (30%)

Recess Week: 22 Feb – 2 Mar

7

4 Mar

L06: Applications and Paradigms

Handout – Chapter 4

8

11 Mar

L06: Amazon Web Services - Getting Started with EC2

L06 Programs: HelloWorld, WordCount

9

18 Mar

Part C: Cloud Management

L07: Cost Metrics, Pricing Models, Service Quality and SLAs

10

25 Mar

L08: Summary & Open Issues

List of Topics Covered

11

1 Apr

Cloud Adoption Business Case Presentations (final report due on 6 Apr):

1.    Hypermarket (marketing analytics), hybrid cloud, IaaS, Rackspace [slides, report]

2.    Budget airlines/private cloud, PaaS, Azure [slides, report]

3.    Online shopping, public cloud, IaaS+PaaS, Amazon [slides, report]

4.    ITE Education, private cloud, IaaS, Amazon [slides, report]

5.    Gaming (startup), public cloud, PaaS, Amazon [slides, report]

Assignment 2 (comments on preliminary report)

12

8 Apr

Cloud Adoption Business Case Presentations (final report due on 13 Apr):

6.    BestToLast (startup), public cloud, IaaS, Azure [slides, report]

7.    Virtual shopping (C2C), hybrid cloud, IaaS+PaaS, Amazon [slides, report]

8.    GELK Bank (CRM, data analytics), hybrid cloud, SaaS, Salesforce [slides, report]

9.    Online assessment, public cloud, PaaS, Amazon [slides, report]

10.  Hospitality  (customer analytics), hybrid cloud, IaaS, Amazon [slides, report]

 

13

15 Apr

Test (30%): closed book

Test (Solution and comments)

Check CA Marks

Reading Week: 19-25 Apr

       (updated: 9 May 2014)