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COWG (Cloud Options Working Group ) Survey Report. Nov. 12, 2013. Members. 6 institutions joined to the working group. Jerry Perez, Philip Smith, Alan Sill, Texas Tech University Sandra Harper, University of Alabama in Huntsville Sergio Tafur , University of Central Florida
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COWG (Cloud Options Working Group)Survey Report Nov. 12, 2013
Members • 6 institutions joined to the working group. • Jerry Perez, Philip Smith, Alan Sill, Texas Tech University • Sandra Harper, University of Alabama in Huntsville • Sergio Tafur, University of Central Florida • Amit H. Kumar, Old Dominion University • ArchitKulshrestha, Affiliation not defined • Chaowei Yang, George Mason University • Byunggu Yu, Dong H Jeong, Nian Zhang, University of the District of Columbia
Activities • Identifying possible short-term and long-term goals • Community Online Survey • Email request sent to all SURAgrid member institutions • Community Online Survey Result • Total # of participants: 9 (from 8 institutions) • 7 of 9 participants heard about COWG (Cloud Options Working Group)
Activities (cont.) 67% (6) has interests in utilizing both Grid + Cloud computing. Instead of focusing exclusively on either. 56% (5) is focused on research + development only. About 34% (3) would like to focus on education and research + development. Most participants utilize cloud-related technologies. Most participants have interests in Big Data processing. • From the question asking about their interest in working groups (Multiple sections). • 7 participants - FutureGrid (COWG) project • 8 participants - NIST Big Data Working Group • 4 participants - NIST SAJACC working group
Activities (cont.) • Most organizations focus on utilizing HADOOP and OpenStack. • Recommended possible directions for COWG • a. Application environments (deliverables to the end user) • b. Sharing experiences and expertise among SURAgrid members • c. Identify possible research questions • d. Sharing authentication and authorization • e. Focusing on designing an interface to support utilizing both grid and cloud simultaneously.
Future Plans • Initiatives • Scientific research • BigData: PaaS extended and SaaS development through Visual Bigdata Science research and applications. • Community outreach • Build a wiki page to share ideas and information about cloud computing in general and any related events.