CS 6465 - Emerging Cloud Technologies and Systems Challenges

Fall. 3 credits. Student option grading.

Prerequisite: CS 6410. Enrollment limited to: Ph.D. students.

K. Birman.

Course explores new hardware and software technologies that are likely to have a major impact on large-scale computer systems, with a focus on understanding the research challenges that will arise as we start to integrate them into existing cloud infrastructures. The class will center on a mix of readings, discussion, and individualized research activities. The technologies to be discussed may include, for example, RDMA networking, network interfaces with novel capabilities, new memory options such as 3D-XPoint and high-density multi-layer NAND/SSD, battery-backed SSD, NetFPGA and GPU co-processors, and the new Intel SGX enclave security technology.