Cloud computing services are being adopted by a growing number of fields as organizations are recognizing the benefits in terms of flexibility, elasticity and reduced upfront costs and carbon footprint.

The course will provide students with a thorough treatment of cloud computing and its applicability to commercial IT development and research computing needs. Discussions will cover topics related to cloud infrastructure and software stack, programming models such as MapReduce and Pregel; underlying distributed storage layers like HDFS and HBase), as well as enabling technologies such as virtualization. Students will be exposed to various cloud frameworks and libraries like Mahout, Pig, and Hive.