CS 8125: Advanced Cloud Computing

3 Credit Hours
Prerequisite: Admission to Computer Science Ph.D., Computer Science M.S. Program, or Analytics and Data Science Ph.D. Program
In this course we will discuss concepts including cloud computing, cloud computing architecture, Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS), Software as a Service (SaaS), etc. We will study commercial products such as Amazon EC2. We will also discuss advanced topics such as Cloud simulation tools and open sourced software for Cloud environment. The course includes literature search of current advances in cloud computing and their applications, and reading of research papers and presentation of research findings.