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Welcome to the website for the MSU Cloud Computing Fellowship for 2022-2022. See our "about" page for more information about the program.

Syllabus Fall 2022 - Spring 2023

The program runs Fall semester through Winder/Spring semester.

Fall Sessions are approximately bi-weekly with breaks for holidays. A session includes preparatory readings and activities to orient you to the topic, followed by an in-person meeting on a Friday to review the materials, seminar, provide a venue for discussion, hands-on collaborative activities, or presentations by the fellows.

Winter/Spring sessions are for discussion and to provide updates to your project.

Symposium and Project Presentations

The culmination of the fellowship is a project resulting in a write-up and presentation during the spring symposium, typically held late-April or early-May.

Project details and due dates

Meeting location

At this time all meetings are in-person in the training room of the Institute for Cyber-Enabled Research, located on the first floor of the MSU Biomedical & Physical Sciences Building

Biomedical and Physical Science (BPS) Building, Room 1445
567 Wilson Road
Michigan State University. East Lansing, MI 48824

  • enter the doors marked 1440, in the center of the BPS atrium

Schedule for Fall 2022

Note since our meeting for September 2 was cancalled The schedule has been revised

  1. Introduction to the 22-23 Fellowship
    • Meeting September 16: Introductions, Cloud background and hands-on with Azure portal
  2. Hands-on Introduction to Cloud computing Using Virtual Machines
    • self-paced readings and activies:
      • Using the Azure portal
      • creating an connecting to a virtual machine
    • Optional help/office hours September 23 2pm
  3. Cloud Storage
    • Meeting September 30: Discussion & Cloud Storage Workshop.
  4. Databases and Data Analytics Systems on the Cloud for research
    • Meeting October 14: Seminar on Database and data systems.
      Hands-on: Using Cosmos DB
  5. Big Data Systems and the cloud
    • Meeting October 28: Overview of Big Data on Azure with DataBricks
  6. Serverless Cloud Computing
    • Meeting November 4: Overview of Serverless and FaaS, Demonstration of Real-world project

  7. Cloud Services Organization

    • Meeting November 18: Details about the Project

  8. Synthesis: projects and development of project proposal

    • Mini-project assignment
    • About Project
    • December 2: optional office hours, time to work on mini-project, 1-1 help, project discussion
    • December 9: Synthesis Session
      • send by email 1-2 sentences describing your current thinking on your project by this time
      • discussion of Fellowship Projects
      • additional 1-1 help with mini project
    • December 5 - 16 : On going help available as needed, please contact us
    • December 16:
      • optional office hours, mini-project, project proposal or other help.
      • submit write-up for mini-project via email

Schedule for Winter/Spring 2023

The second semester of the fellowship is focused on completing a project based on fellow research interests. We will meet approximately bi-weekly for fellows to present, get feedback, ask questions, and group discussions. For some of these dates/times, fellows will deliver a short presentation about their projects as follows:

For details, please see the timeline and details about what's expected:
Cloud Computing Fellowship Deliverables Timeline Spring 2023 pdf
*this was sent via email in January, but also posted here in February and is the same schedule on the projects page. *

** Schedule Synopsis** (Updated March 21)

All meetings are in the ICER training room, 1455A BPS, from 2:00 to 3:30 pm

  • January 9th Post Written Project Proposal to this MS Teams folder prior to 5:00pm January 9th
  • January 12th Post Project Proposal Slides to this MS Teams folder prior to 5:00pm
  • January 13 Present ‘in-person’ your Project Proposal Slides at 2:00pm
  • March 24th: In-person discussion of projects and fellowship goals, 2:00pm
  • May 5 Tenative date for in-person presentation of project summary at the CCF Annual Symposium

On-going help

We encourage you, especially during Winter/spring, to contact us at any time with any questions related to your projects, the fellowship, or cloud computing in general.

Textbook

We will occasionally link to the following book:

"Cloud Computing for Science and Engineering", Ian Foster and Dennis B. Gannon, September 2017

The book website does provide open access to individual chapters.

Communications

Fellows are encouraged to contact us with questions or if they are ever stuck on an activity we've assigned. In addition to email, we are utilizing Microsoft Teams at MSU (Fellows receive a link in the welcome email). Please feel free to reach on out the MS Teams channel sent to participants at the beginning of the program. Mentioning one of us e.g. @billspat or @parvizm will help get our attention. Additionally you may email us at any time. If you are not a participant but have questions about the program, see the Contact page for how to get in touch with us.

If you see a question or discussion on Teams please feel free to add any info or advice you may have, or even let us know that you have a similar question or issue.

If you need interactive, on-going help it may be better to schedule a help session with a fellowship coordinator; and we are happy to meet individually for additional support. This may be especially effective when fellows are developing their projects.

We also save time during our synchronous meetings for group discussions, so please bring any concerns, difficulties, or successes to our sessions!

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