Advanced Topics in Information Systems: Cloud Computing (Fall 2010)

4. . Cloud Operating Systems

• D. Wentzlaff, C. Gruenwald, N. Beckmann, K. Modzelewski, A. Belay, L. Youseff, J. Miller, and A. Agarwal, "An Operating System for Multicore and Clouds: Mechanisms and Implementation" ACM Symposium on Cloud Computing (SOCC), June 2010. (Lecture Notes) - (Project Homepage)
• S. Wickizer, H. Chen, R. Chen, Y. Mao, F. Kaashoek, R. Morris, A. Pesterev, L. Stein, M. Wu, Y. Dai, Y. Zhang, and Z. Zhang. "Corey: An Operating System for Many Cores", Proceedings of the 8th Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation, San Diego, CA, December 2008. (Slides) - (Project Homepage)

5. Cloud Programming Models and Frameworks

• S. Bykov, A. Geller, G. Kliot, J. Larus, R. Pandya, and J. Thelin, "Orleans: A Framework for Cloud Computing", No. MSR-TR-2010-159, 30 November 2010. (Lecture Notes) - (Project Homepage)
• M. Isard, M. Budiu, Y. Yu, A. Birrell, and D. Fetterly, Dryad: Distributed Data-Parallel Programs from Sequential Building Blocks, European Conference on Computer Systems (EuroSys), Lisbon, Portugal, March 21-23, 2007. (Slides I) - (Slides II) - (Presentation Video) - (Project Homepage)
• F. Chang, J. Dean, S. Ghemawat, W. C. Hsieh, D. A. Wallach, M. Burrows, T. Chandra, A. Fikes, R. E. Gruber, “Bigtable: A Distributed Storage System for Structured Data”, 7th USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation (OSDI), 2006, pp. 205-218. (Lecture Notes)

6. Green Cloud Computing

• R. Buyya, A. Beloglazov, and J. Abawajy, "Energy-Efficient Management of Data Center Resources for Cloud Computing: A Vision, Architectural Elements, and Open Challenges", Proceedings of the 2010 International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Processing Techniques and Applications (PDPTA2010), Las Vegas, USA, July 12-15, 2010. (Lecture Notes)
• R. Buyya's Talk at CCGrid 2007 Conference: Green HPC.
• Green Cloud Project, University of Melbourne.

7. Cloud Benchmarking

• Performance Profiling in a Virtualized Environment, J. Du, N. Sehrawat, W. Zwaenepoel, "Performance Profiling in Virtualized Environments",  Proceedings of the 2nd USENIX conference on Hot topics in cloud computing. (Lecture Notes) - (Original Slides) - (Presentation Video)
• VMMark benchmark suite for virtualized environments.
• Intel's vConsolidate benchmark suite to evaluate virtualized servers.
• A. Berryman, P. Calyam, M. Honigford, and A.M. Lai "VDBench: A Benchmarking Toolkit for Thin-client based Virtual Desktop Environments", IEEE Conference on Cloud Computing Technology and Science. (Slides)

8. Scheduling in Clouds

• Mauro Andreolini, Sara Casolari, Michele Colajanni, and Michele Messori , “Dynamic load management of virtual machines in a cloud architectures” , In Proceedings of the IEEE conference on Cloud computing, 2009. (Lecture Notes)
• K. H. Kim, R. Buyya and J. Kim, "Power Aware Scheduling of Bag-of-Tasks Applications with Deadline Constraints on DVS-enabled Clusters", Proceedings of the 7th IEEE International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid (CCGrid 2007, IEEE CS Press, Los Alamitos, CA, USA), May 14-17, 2007, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

9. Cloud Pricing and Cost Models

• M. Siegenthaler,  H. Weatherspoon, "Cloudifying Source Code Repositories: How Much Does it Cost?", ACM SIGOPS Operting Systems Review, Volume 44, Issue 2, April 2010. (Lecture Notes)
• H. Wang, Q. Jing, R. Chen, B. He, Z. Qian, and L. Zhou, "Distributed Systems Meet Economics: Pricing in the Cloud", In Proceeding of the USENIX workshop on hot topics in Cloud Computing, Boston, MA, USA, 2010. (Lecture Notes) - (Slides) - (Video)

10. Secure Cloud Systems

11. Cloud Standards

12. Cloud Architecture