Warehouse-Scale Computing

582713
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Networking and Services
Intermediate studies
The aim for this course is to familiarize students on how to build distributed systems that span not only two or sixteen computers, but hundreds or even thousands of physical servers.
Year Semester Date Period Language In charge
2014 spring 10.03-16.05. 4-4 English Mikko Pervilä

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Information for international students

This course will be held only in English.

General

For more information about the course, see this separate wiki space: https://wiki.helsinki.fi/display/582713

Completing the course

This course will extend over the two intensive-study weeks after period IV.

Contents are heavily prototype-oriented and include no lectures. Points are given for completing weekly exercises in the NodesLab.

There may be an exam, but this information is still pending.

Literature and material

Freely available book: The Datacenter as a Computer: An Introduction to the Design of Warehouse-Scale Machines, Second edition, by Barroso, Clidaras, and Hölzle.

LISA presentation about Google's administration system involving 40k+ mac workstations https://www.usenix.org/conference/lisa13/managing-macs-google-scale.

Bitcoin background materials: http://www.michaelnielsen.org/ddi/how-the-bitcoin-protocol-actually-works/