Networking at Scale

Harvard Extension School

CSCI E-145

Section 1

CRN 26710

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Modern networks have grown to extremely large scale, connecting millions of servers, and high speed, with terabits per second to meet the needs of a variety of cloud applications in business and society (for example, social media, public health, and entertainment). In this course, we study not only basic concepts in networking but also how these concepts are applied and extended for networking at scale. We discuss the recent technology trends and design choices of performance, scalability, manageability, and cost faced by companies who own large-scale networks such as Amazon, Google, Microsoft, and Facebook. This course includes lectures, system programming projects, and homework.

Registration Closes: January 23, 2025
Credits: 4

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Term

Spring Term 2025

Part of Term

Full Term

Format

Online

Credit Status

Graduate, Undergraduate

Section Status

Open

Instructor Info

Minlan Yu, PhD

Gordon McKay Professor of Computer Science, Harvard University


Meeting Info

1/27 to 5/17

Participation Option: Online Asynchronous

In online asynchronous courses, you are not required to attend class at a particular time. Instead you can complete the course work on your own schedule each week.

Deadlines

Last day to register: January 23, 2025

Additional Time Commitments

Required sections to be arranged.

Prerequisites

System programming at the level of CSCI E-61.

Notes

The recorded lectures are from the Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences companion course Computer Science 1450. Registered students can ordinarily live stream the lectures Tuesdays and Thursdays, 11:15-12:30 pm starting January 28 or they can watch them on demand. The recorded sessions are typically available within a few hours of the end of class and no later than the following business day. Class sessions for this course may include students enrolled in the FAS companion course. Accordingly, when you participate in live class sessions, you will do so alongside both Division of Continuing Education (DCE) and FAS students. If you participate in a way that causes you to appear in recordings of the class, those recordings may be shown to DCE students enrolled in this course or FAS students enrolled in the companion course, according to the policies of the two schools on accessing recordings of class sessions.

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CRN Section # Participation Option(s) Instructor Section Status Meets Term Dates
26710 1 Online Asynchronous Minlan Yu Open Jan 27 to May 17

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