Lec #	Date	Topic	Notes/additional material	Papers to review	Checkpoints/Other refs
1	9/5	Course Introduction	Aditya's slides; Aaron's slides	How to read 1; 2	Did you get the Piazza welcome email? (check your wisc ID); Assignment 1 out!!
2	9/10	Overview of Cloud Computing	Slides	Above the Clouds	Assignment 2 out!!
3	9/12	Data Center Architectures	Talk: "Warehouse-Scale Computing: Entering the Teenage Decade"	DC as a Computer(chapters 1--3)
4	9/14	Data Center Architectures: Energy and Failures		DC as a Computer(chapters 4--7)	Comparison of AWS, Azure, Google, VMWare, and others
5	9/17	Data Analytics Frameworks: Hadoop Overview	Slides
6	9/21	Data Analytics Frameworks: Dryad and DryadLINQ	Slides	DryadLINQ
7	9/26	Data Analytics Frameworks: Dremel and FlumeJava	Dremel Slides, FlumeJava Slides, Lecture Nodes, Handout	Dremel	Also skim FlumeJava; Assignment 3 out!!
8	9/28	In-memory Frameworks: RDD/Spark	Slides	RDDs	Related: Piccolo, D-Streams
9	10/3	Enterprise usecases: CloudNaaS	Slides	CloudNaaS	Also skim Cloudward-bound
10	10/5	Usecases contd. and workloads	Slides	DCMeas	Also skim Stratos
11	10/10	Inter-DC and App-level measurements	Slides	GoogleMeas	Also skim InterDCMeas
12	10/12	Data center networking: fabrics	Slides	PortLand
13	10/15	Data center networking: fabrics	Notes, Handout	c-Through	Project ideas discussed
14	10/17	Data center networking: generalized resource sharing	Notes, Handout	DRFQ	Also skim CoMb
15	10/19	Data center networking: network sharing	Slides	FairCloud
16	10/24	Data center networking: network latency	Notes	HULL
17	10/26	Software Defined Networking: Vision and Design Issues	Slides	OpenFlow paper	Also watch this and this.
18	11/2	Interesting SDN and SDN++ usecases	Slides	SDMBN and LIME
19	11/5	Languages for SDN	Notes	Frenetic	Also skim Nettle
20	11/7	Abstractions	Slides	HFT and Splendid	Also skim PANE
21	11/12	Testing and Debugging	Notes	HSA	Also skim ndb
22	11/16	Storage Overview	Slides	Cassandra	Also skim Megastore and YCSB
23	11/19	Data Center Storage	Notes	FDS
24	11/26	Storage Sharing/SLAs	Slides	PISCES
25	11/28	Flash/RAM Storage	Slides	SILT	Also skim RAMClouds
26	12/3	Storage Security	Notes, Slides, Additional Slides	Depot
27	12/7	App Security	Slides	CryptDB
28	12/10	Accountability; Wrap up	Slides	AVM
29	12/12	Project Presentations I
30	12/14	Project Presentations II