3 credits
Spring 2026 Lecture
The modern datacenter and the cloud has emerged as the dominant computing platform that powers most of world's consumer online services, financial, military, and scientific application domains. The goal of this course is to introduce students to the design, implementation, and management of modern datacenter and cloud networks. Lectures will include the presentation and discussion of seminal papers from the field of datacenter and cloud networks, covering a wide range of topics, including datacenter architecture and topology, routing and load balancing, datacenter transport, software-defined networking, programmable data plane, in-network computing, multi-tenancy, RDMA, resource disaggregation, and optical switching inside datacenters.
Learning Outcomes1Demonstrate an understanding of the design, implementation, and management of datacenter and cloud networks and familiarity with the state-of-the-art technologies in these areas.
Restrictions
made by Purdue students.