COMP 6611B: Topics on Cloud Computing and Data Analytics Systems [Fall 2015]

The lecture schedule will be updated over weeks. Please check it one week before the lecture begins.

Lecture Date Topic Speaker(s) Papers
Sep. 4 Introduction (slides) Wei Wang Keshav’07, Kschischang’00
Sep. 7 Cloud Overview (Slides) Wei Wang Armbrust’09, Barroso’09
Sep. 11 Data Analytics Frameworks Sathish, Shengkai MapReduce, Spark
Sep. 14 Data Analytics Frameworks Yaofeng, Zuozhuo SparkStreaming, Tez
Sep. 18 RDD and Spark Wei Wang Spark
Sep. 21 Distributed File System Wei Wang HDFS
Sep. 25 Structured Storage System Sam Cassandra
Oct. 2 In-memory Storage System Qingkai Tachyon
Oct. 5 Datacenter Workload Characterization Eric Placement Constraints
Oct. 9 Datacenter Workload Characterization Shengkai GoogleTraces
Oct. 12 Cluster Resource Management Systems Wei Wang YARN
Oct. 16 Cluster Resource Management Systems Zuozhuo Borg
Oct. 19 Cluster Resource Management Systems Sam Mesos
Oct. 23 Resource Management & Scheduling Policies Jiayue Delay Scheduling
Oct. 26 Resource Management & Scheduling Policies Sathish DRF
Oct. 30 Resource Management & Scheduling Policies Yaofeng Choosy
Nov. 2 Resource Management & Scheduling Policies Jiayue Tetris
Nov. 6 Cluster Scheduler Design Wei Wang Sparrow
Nov. 9 Cluster Scheduler Design Wei Wang Revisiting resource management
Nov. 13 Cluster Scheduler Design Wei Wang Omega
Nov. 16 Cluster Scheduler Design Wei Wang The Tail at Scale
Nov. 20 Cluster Scheduler Design Qingkai Shi Attack of Clones
Nov. 23 Cluster Scheduler Design Wei Wang Hopper
Nov. 27 Final Presentation TBA TBA
Nov. 30 Final Presentation TBA TBA

Notes:

  1. The 3-page midterm report is due on Oct. 31, 2015.