Cloud Computing
Summer Term 2025

Course information

A distributed system consists of several independent computers that communicate with each other over a network. Different distributed system architectures exist in the computer science. The most popular architecture is the Client-Server model. But especially in the parallel computing field, exist among others, Cluster Computing and Cloud Computing. In this course, the fundamentals of Cloud Computing and related technologies are discussed. Practical exercises are an important part of this course because they are essential for the understanding of these technologies.

Parts of the slide sets are based on the book Cloud Computing: Web-Based Dynamic IT Services, which was published in 2011 by Springer. ISBN: 978-3-642-20916-1

This course has no written exam! Instead, your grade will depend 100% on your work and the results of the semester project. This semester we will have one overall project theme, each group working on the same project of the theme.

The semester project in the summer term 2025 has the goal to develop a solution in the realm of a research project!

The semester research project topics include:

Project 1 – SASE (Secure Access Service Edge).

Project 2 – Sky Computing.

Project 3 – Cost Control in Multi-Cloud Environments.

Project 4 outline – Risk Management in Multi-Cloud Environments.

Project 5 outline – Attaching on-premises workloads to the SKY.

The requirements will be collected in class, discussed, and distributed among the individual teams on 9th of April. We will try to design and assign the tasks so that the failure of individual team members and teams does not lead to the collapse of the overall project. It is very important that all participants of the module attend class on the 15th of April! Information on the semester project can be found in the course materials on this site.