Sumários

Introduction to AWS (aula online)

24 março 2021, 16:30 • Luís Antunes Veiga

Introduction to Amazon Web Services, from a user/developer perspective:

- Configuring and launching EC2 instances
- Creating AMIs using an instance as a source
- Setting up a load balancer
- Setting up an autoscaler with autoscaling policies

Cloud IaaS: Execution and Monitoring I (aula online)

23 março 2021, 15:30 • Luís Antunes Veiga

Cloud Execution Platforms and Models:
- Overview: user-provider responsibilities, SLAs
- Amazon EC2 (public)
- Microsoft Azure (public)

Pin Tool Development (aula online)

19 março 2021, 16:30 • Rui António Dos Santos Cruz

Set-up and development of sample pin tools:

- tool to estimate the efficiency of an hypothetical round-robin basic block cache (code cache core component)
- tool to count the number of accesses made to each register by each basic block (register allocator core component)

System-level Virtualization (System VMs) (aula online)

19 março 2021, 14:30 • Luís Antunes Veiga

Resource Virtualization – Memory

- virtual memory support in VM
- virtualizing page tables
- shadow page tables

Performance Enhancement and Hardware Support
- overview, reasons for performance degradation
- paravirtualization: Xen
- hardware support for virtualization: Intel VT-x (Vanderpool)

Pin Tool Development (aula online)

19 março 2021, 13:30 • Rui António Dos Santos Cruz

Set-up and development of sample pin tools:

- tool to estimate the efficiency of an hypothetical round-robin basic block cache (code cache core component)
- tool to count the number of accesses made to each register by each basic block (register allocator core component)