Cloud Computing
Winter Term 2023

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 three project themes, each group working on a different project of the theme.

The semester project in the winter term 2023 has the goal to develop a solution in the realm of osmotic computing, service migration or service quality awareness for distributed workloads on client hardware.

The semester project includes:
• research on the topic and investigation on the application fields.
• research on the use of the approach in an offline-first concept.
• development of a conceptual framework for the use in an offline-first setting.
• development of a prototypical showcase for the implementation of your conceptual framework.

The requirements will be collected in class, discussed, and distributed among the individual teams on October 18th. 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 18th of October! Information on the semester project can be found in the course materials on this site.