CS 6452 - Datacenter Networks and Services

Spring. 3 credits.

Prequisites: CS 4410 or equivalent.

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This course examines novel network architectures, networking protocols and software services to support high-performance datacenter applications. It covers physical network design, addressing and naming, transport protocols, consensus protocols, lock management, key-value stores, NoSQL, virtualization and green datacenters. Students are expected to undertake a significant class project.