Violations of academic integrity policies will be decended upon from great height, and will result in prosecution of the offenders.

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Objectives:

• Cloud Computing principles.
• Cloud Computing components and services.
• Cloud Computing architectures and implementations
• Cloud Computing management and security

Course Plan (topics, order may differ - see schedule):

   1. History of Centralized and Distributed Computing
   2. Cloud Computing principles, components, services and Virtualization
   3. Types of Cloud Services and overview of some selected systems
          * VCL
          * Other clouds, including commercial clouds
   4. Cloud resources
          * Network and API
          * Virtual and bare-metal computational resources
          * Data-storage
   5. Cloud Interfaces
   6. Cloud Access: authentication, authorization and accounting
   7. Cloud Provenance and meta-data
   8. Cloud Reliability and fault-tolerance
   9. Cloud Security, privacy, policy and compliance
  10. Cloud Cloud federation, interoperability and standards
  11. Cloud Economics
  12. Advanced topics
          * HPC in the Cloud
          * Cloud brokering 
          * Open Stack
          * Containers and Docker

This class CANNOT be audited, and CANNOT be taken on the pass/fail (credit only) basis. There will be a prerequisite knowledge test the first day of the class. It will count into class tests.

Homeworks are individual work (no collaboration, etc.), tests are individual work, projects are group work.

The course uses +/- grading. Homeworks are worth about 1/3 of the grade, tests (including in-class quizzes) are worth about 1/3 of the grade, and individual projects about 1/3 of the grade. These proportions may change depending on the grade curving (and students will be given explicit information about that via a grade calculator tool). There will be no final exam, however project summary presentations and individual team evaluations may take place during the "dead week" (see class schedule page for details).

Students will be required to fill in any gaps in the prerequisite knowledge on their own time.

All homeworks, assignments and reports will be submitted electronically. Exception are "attendance assignment" one-sheets that need to be submitted in person at the start of each class.

Students must attend all classes/labs unless explicitly informed otherwise by the instructor(s). All students also MUST access the NEWS page within 36 hours of a class-slot regardless of whether the class is given or not, or whether the class slot is used as lab-time.

Both, lecture/lab attendance and news access are required for attendance to count.

Tests/Exams are mandatory. There may be extra work assigned for the "dead week" (possibly including in-class presentatins). Final project submission will be during the "reading days". Please see schedule for details.

If there are any questions, issues, or complaints about homework and test grading, these need to be submitted/brought up with the Instructors, Project Coordinator or TA within two weeks of the time the work has officially been graded and returned to the class. After that, the grades are fixed.

All class announcements will be made via the News and Announcement and Schedule (deadlines, test-dates, project due date) web pages. YOU ARE REQUIRED TO VIEW BOTH PAGES at least TWICE a WEEK (once in-between the lecture/lab slots and within 36 hours of the last lecture/lab slot). It is recommended that you visit the NEWS page three times a week (e.g., Mon, Wed, Fri). This assures reasonable currency of the information "pull".

The course process will follow all relevant and appropriate N C State University academic regulations including those about academic integrity and those relevant to students with disabilities.

It is the responsibility of the student to inform the instructor(s). (in writing) about any relevant extraneous cirumstances (e.g., medical or other emergenices, disabilities, etc.).