General Information

The course will cover the state-of-the-art techniques and principles for designing single node scalable systems software. The course will cover lectures, paper discussion, and a semester-long project focusing on scalability. Note that some of the topics are tentative and we can also cover topics that students want to explore or learn about.

Prerequisite

• CS-522: Principles of Computes Systems (POCS)

Meetings

• When: Friday 14:15-16:00

• Where: https://epfl.zoom.us/j/87272674753?pwd=QVlibEk3QXUxY0NrWWhMdldCZ2VRQT09

Grading Policy

• Assignments (10%): Answer/ask questions before each lecture.

• Class participation (10%)

• Project (80%)

  • Proposal presentation (15%, 30.03.2021)

  • Demo & presentation (25%, 01.06.2021)

  • Write-up (40%, 01.06.2021)

Meeting hours

• Meeting hours: Tues 16:00-17:00, Sanidhya Kashyap

• Feel free to send an email to make an appointment