Course: Cloud Computing class - second edition

Project Information

Discipline

Computer Science (401) 

Orientation

Education 

This is the second edition of the Cloud Computing Class, where students can get confidence with what is Cloud Computing in real. In the first part of the course, they will play with Eucalyptus/Nimbus/OpenStack in order to understand the "basic steps" for each cloud computing platform. In the second part of the course, they will play with open source projects (Munin, Pound, Chef, Ganglia, Puppet, BoxGrinder.. just to name a few) that should be able to interact/interface with the Cloud.

The students will be involved in a realistic scenario where they will face problem concerning configuration/monitoring and management of a Cloud.

All materials and all results will be published in the class web page (http://archive.futuregrid.org/contrib/cloud-computing-class). All documents/results will be proposed as "open source" materials (that is editable/improved from everyone). The intent of this it is also to figure out which is the best way to teach and to practice with cloud computing.

Project Contact

Project Lead

Massimo Canonico (mcanonic) 

Project Manager

Massimo Canonico (mcanonic) 

Project Members

Irene Lovotti, Andrea Mastroberardino, Andrea Moio, Albert Shaqiri, Gabriele Barberis, Andrea Lombardo, Jawad Munir  

Resource Requirements

Hardware System

• I don't care (what I really need is a software environment and I don't care where it runs)

 

We will use FutureGrid as a testbed to start-up/shut-down instances with various services. We would also try to interface FutureGrid with some of the open source software designed to config/maintan/monitor a Cloud computing platform (as mentioned before).

The class should be quite small, so the resources involved in our class should be just few physical machines (less than 50).

Project Timeline

Submitted

04/27/2012 - 09:41 

Completed

03/12/2013