| 1. | Course Title | Cloud computing and Cloud platforms | |||||||||||
| 2. | Code | 4ФЕИТ07014 | |||||||||||
| 3. | Study program | 7-NKS, 8-KM-INN, 20-IMSA | |||||||||||
| 4. | Organizer of the study program (unit, institute, department) | Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technologies | |||||||||||
| 5. | Degree (first, second, third cycle) | Second cycle | |||||||||||
| 6. | Academic year/semester | I/1 | 7. | Number of ECTS credits | 6.00 | ||||||||
| 8. | Lecturer | Dr Goran Jakimovski | |||||||||||
| 9. | Course Prerequisites | ||||||||||||
| 10. | Course Goals (acquired competencies):
Acquiring knowledge of grid and cloud architectures. Acquiring knowledge of protocols and frameworks for grid and cloud systems. |
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| 11. | Course Syllabus:
Grid for Application Development, Grid Architecture. Networking infrastructure, protocols and quality of service, Processing platforms, operating systems and network interfaces. Compilers, languages and libraries for Grid. Grid allocation, resource management, resource brokers, resource reservation. Instrumentation and measurement, performance analysis and visualization, Security and accounting. Globus toolkit: the core of the system and appropriate tools such as Message Passing Interface Communication Library, Remote Input/Output, Communication Library. Legion and the corresponding software. Condor and Grid systems. Open Grid Service Architecture and data grid. Development of Grid Portal. Types of applications: geographically distributed, high bandwidth, on demand, collaborative and data-intensive supercomputing, supercomputing control, real-time access to distributed instrumentation systems. Cloud computing: architecture, linking possible server platforms and massive calculations. Cloud Computing Standards. Open cloud computing applications. Private cloud. Network cloud. Cloud archiving. Cloud management. Application of a cloud to a data center. Energy saving and "green" data center and applications. |
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| 12. | Learning methods:
Classes, homework and paperwork |
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| 13. | Total number of course hours | 180 | |||||||||||
| 14. | Distribution of course hours | 3 + 3 | |||||||||||
| 15. | Forms of teaching | 15.1 | Lectures-theoretical teaching | 45 hours | |||||||||
| 15.2 | Exercises (laboratory, practice classes), seminars, teamwork | 45 hours | |||||||||||
| 16. | Other course activities | 16.1 | Projects, seminar papers | 30 hours | |||||||||
| 16.2 | Individual tasks | 30 hours | |||||||||||
| 16.3 | Homework and self-learning | 30 hours | |||||||||||
| 17. | Grading | ||||||||||||
| 17.1 | Exams | 0 points | |||||||||||
| 17.2 | Seminar work/project (presentation: written and oral) | 50 points | |||||||||||
| 17.3. | Activity and participation | 0 points | |||||||||||
| 17.4. | Final exam | 50 points | |||||||||||
| 18. | Grading criteria (points) | up to 50 points | 5 (five) (F) | ||||||||||
| from 51 to 60 points | 6 (six) (E) | ||||||||||||
| from 61 to 70 points | 7 (seven) (D) | ||||||||||||
| from 71 to 80 points | 8 (eight) (C) | ||||||||||||
| from 81 to 90 points | 9 (nine) (B) | ||||||||||||
| from 91 to 100 points | 10 (ten) (A) | ||||||||||||
| 19. | Conditions for acquiring teacher’s signature and for taking final exam | 60% success of all curriculum activities | |||||||||||
| 20. | Forms of assessment | Project assignment and final exam. | |||||||||||
| 21. | Language | Macedonian and English | |||||||||||
| 22. | Method of monitoring of teaching quality | Self-evaluation | |||||||||||
| 23. | Literature | ||||||||||||
| 23.1. | Required Literature | ||||||||||||
| No. | Author | Title | Publisher | Year | |||||||||
| 1. | G. Reese | "Cloud Application Architectures: Building Applications and Infrastructure in the Cloud" | O’Reilly | 2009 | |||||||||
| 2. | A. Abbas | "Grid Computing: Practical Guide to Technology and Applications" | John Wiley | 2005 | |||||||||
| 3. | M. Li, M. Baker | "The Grid: Core Technologies" | John Wiley | 2005 | |||||||||
