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STC on Cloud Computing chairs: Michael Kozuch and Rick McGeer https:// stc-cloud-computing.ieee.net /. Membership 57 members 6 Board Members Value add to members Record of cloud computing venues Federation and clearinghouse for cloud computing testbeds
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STC on Cloud Computingchairs: Michael Kozuch and Rick McGeerhttps://stc-cloud-computing.ieee.net/ • Membership • 57 members • 6 Board Members • Value add to members • Record of cloud computing venues • Federation and clearinghouse for cloud computing testbeds • (Planned) blogs, webinars, video instruction and tutorials for Cloud Computing • Technical sponsorship of events (OpenCirrus summit, Slice-around-the-world demo) • Plans going forward • Hosted blog by cloud luminaries • Cloud Computing YouTube Channel • Webinar series • Federation of Cloud testbeds • Topics of interest • Cloud computing platforms and technologies, including Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service, and Application as a Service • Test and research platforms for Cloud Computing. • Algorithms for and Models of highly-scalable systems. • Infrastructure design, including hardware, system software, storage systems, and networking architectures • Federation and Security of Cloud Platforms • Associated IEEE CS entities • IEEE STC on Green Computing • Related Efforts • GENI, OpenCirrus, PlanetLab, VICCI 1
STC Activities • Technical co-sponsorship of OpenCirrus summit andtestbed workshop (September 2012) • Technical co-sponsorship of Slice Around the World GENI demo (pending) • Slice Around the World to take place in various venues, starting July 10 at the GENI Engineering Conference • Demonstration of Federated Cloud technologies on every continent, • Tentative sites/dates: • July 10, GENI Engineering Conference, Boston • July 23, Euroview, Wurzburg, Germany • August 24, Network Virtualization Symposium, Kyoto, Japan • September 17, Federated Clouds Workshop, San Jose • October 11, GLIF Workshop, Chicago • October 31, GENI Engineering Conference, Houston • November 12-15, Supercomputing 2012, Salt Lake City.
STC Organization • Rick McGeer (HP), Mike Kozuch (Intel), co-chairs • Board: • Aaron Falk (Verivue, formerly Chief Architect,GENI) • David Cheperdak, University of Victoria – Student Chair and Webmaster • Aki Nakao, University of Tokyo • Joe Mambretti, International Center for Advanced Internet Research, Northwestern • David Oppenheimer, Google • Actively seeking new board members • Particular interest in recruiting from Europe…
STC Outreach/Educational Activities • All Currently in Planning/Development Stage • Webinars • Short interactive presentations from luminaries in field • Typically 30 minutes in length • YouTube channel • Instructional videos on topics of interest to members • Introduction to GENI, video tutorial to ProtoGENI, video tutorial to PlanetLab, OpenStack, etc. • Key Advantage over webinars: can be viewed at leisure • Hosted/moderated blog • Alternative to newsletter and wiki • Actively recruiting bloggers
Future Activities • Strong Focus on Cloud Testbeds over research networks • Fundamental problem for researchers and educators: where will we get testbeds of scale? • “Clique” for Yahoo!: 20,000 nodes • Solution: • Exploit peer-to-peer technologies • Widespread federation • Need for standardization on API’s, naming schemes • Collaborate with public agencies (NSF, EU, JGN…)