Lecture Week 11: Cloud Computing

Course Meetup: Tuesday, Apr. 6

The next course meetup at on Tuesday, Apr. 6 at 2:00pm on Zoom and will be a short Q&A-only meetup. We will use the same Zoom link for all course meetups (you can find it in Compass 2g as the announcement for this course).

Note: Upcoming COVID-19 Non-Instruction Day

Next week (Apr. 13) is a COVID-19 non-instruction day on a Tuesday. Since Tuesday is the lecture day for CS 423, we will have no course meetup next week and no lecture or readings. The only class-wide activity CS 423 will have next week is an MP4 overview session hosted by the TAs on April 15. (We will still have our regular office hours.)

Lecture Topics and Videos

The topics come from both lecture videos and reading from the course textbook:

  1. Reading - Virtual Machine Monitors - Appendix B
  2. Lecture Video - Cloud Computing
  3. Lecture Video - Containers
  4. Lecture Video - Container Support on OSes
  5. Meetup Recording from Tuesday's Meetup - Zoom Recording

Additionally, here’s a PDF of all the lecture slides presented in the videos this week.

Assignments

MPs

Reading Selection from Systems Research (Required for 4CR only)

If you are enrolled in the 4CR version of this course, you will review two papers each week and choose one to summarize in depth. See the course syllabus for details. Note: You may need to be on the campus VPN to get access to some of the papers.

  1. “My VM is Lighter (and Safer) than your Container” by Filipe Manco et al; presented at SOSP ‘17: Proceedings of the 26th Symposium on Operating Systems Principles.

  2. “SCONE: Secure Linux Containers with Intel SGX” by Sergei Arnautov et al; presented at USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation (OSDI 2016).

Your summary is due on Compass 2g by 11:59pm on Monday, April 12.