Datacenter Design and Operations
Offered by partner university Avignon Université
This course is meant to provide an introduction to datacenter technologies. It addresses the properties of datacenter computing and networking infrastructures, and provides elements on the management of computing and networking resources therein. It introduces the fundamental problems of scheduling tasks on multiple machines. Additional elements to be covered are datacenter networking, hyper-converged architectures, security and SLAs in cloud computing.
Dates
- 27 April 2026 to 30 April 2026. Exact times will be announced.
- Afterwards, synchronous online meetings will follow; the dates and times are currently being planned.
- The course will cover a legacy syllabus focusing on the technological specificities of datacenter networks.
- Introduction to datacenter architecture; history of data centers; data center structure. Datacenters and constructive metrics: energy, robustness, and load distribution. Power and cooling in datacenters.
- Datacenter management techniques. Introduction to fabric, Fabric cabling and active fabric. L2 fabric and architectures CLI management, network overlay and spine and leaf.
- Datacenter operations: capacity planning and service operations.
- Scheduling. Classification of scheduling problems. Scheduling for one machine. Scheduling for several machines. Scheduling with deadlines. Scheduling of jobs in a cluster. Scheduling containers with Kubernetes.
- Allocation of computing resources in data centers. Distributed computing applications and resource allocation. Migration models and hot/cold models. Caching and registries.
algorithmic design, network protocols, data-structures
After finishing the course, you will receive a certificate confirming 4 credit points.
Lecturer
Prof. Dr. Francesco De Pellegrini
Avignon Université
Prof. Dr. Antonio Cisternino
UNIPI