Weekly Meeting minutes & Progress Reports
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June 12 - June 17
Meeting Minutes:
- Neel has some google docs about MS Azure and Amazon EC2 summary. Needs to migrate to wiki.
- Both Neel and Di have RefWorks lists and papers collected. Needs to put links to the RefWorks in the Links page.
- Needs paper summary/highlights write-up in the wiki.
June 19 - June 24
Progress:
- Neel
- Researched Public Cloud Services
- Researched Community Cloud Services
Meeting Minutes:
- Neel
- Needs to find who is working on FutureGrid/Magellan, poc.
- Clarification of areas of investigation: cloud platform, cloud middleware, cloud application
- Research "Google to Host Terabytes of Open-Source Science Data"
June 27 - July 1
Progress:
- Neel
- Researched and collated information about the following cloud platforms
- OpenStack
- Eucalyptus
- OpenNebula
- Nimbus (In-progress)
- Poor/Disorganized/Vague Documentation
- May need to Install and Explore
- Updated Amazon and Azure wiki pages in light of recent significant service changes
- Researched for more information on FutureGrid/Magellan.
- Don't have enough/updated information
- Still need to find someone who has worked on them.
- Researched and collated information about the following cloud platforms
- Di
- Summarized papaers in Biology, Astronomy, and High Energy Physics.
- Filtered and collected papers (25) in different areas.
Meeting Minutes:
- Revise the science papers wiki outline/heading
- more information needed for FutureGrid/Magellan
- Looked at Geoffrey Fox's papers for science stories
- By the end of next week (the 4th week of this project), we should check if we are ready to write the white paper.
July 5 - July 7
Progress:
- Neel
- Researched Multi-Cloud APIs
- JClouds
- Apache DeltaCloud
- Apache LibCloud
- JClouds
- Jets3t
- SMEStorage
- Typica
- Still waiting for someone to respond about FutureGrid/Magellan
- Researched Multi-Cloud APIs
- Di
- Revised the outline/heading of the science papers wiki
- Selected and summarized papers in GIS area
- Start from "Spatial Cloud Computing" paper from GMU
- Five papers summarized, 10+ papers collected but not summarized yet.
- Selected papers from Geoffrey Fox's group (Biology & Environmental)
- Selected papers in Environmental science (Starting from the groundwater modeling paper)
- Also selected papers from other environmental sciene ares such as Climate science etc.
Meeting Minutes:
- Neel
- Highly Parallel Data Processing Frameworks (MapReduce/Sphere)
- Distributed File Systems (XtreemFS, Oracle, HDFS, Ghost, CloudStore, Fossil, GPFS)
- Distributed Table Service/Platforms (HBase, Hypertable, HBase, Amazon SimpleDB, Azure Table Service, Space)
- Di
- Summarize collected papers from GIS, Biology and Environmental sciences.
- Collect and summarize papers from Astronomy area.
- Keep an eye on papers mentioning application on community clouds, opensource cloud platforms and multi-cloud APIs.
July 11 - July 15
Progress:
- Di
- Have a draft of the overview of GIS summaries
- Summarized biology/bioinformatics papers
- Ready to summarize astronomy and environmental science papers now
Meeting Minutes:
- Next week (Di)
- Should be able to finish first drafts of "summary of summaries" for biology, astronomy and environmental science
- Will keep expanding paper collection and adding information to the summary for each area
July 18 - July 22
Progress:
- Neel
- Google App Engine
- Summarized Benchmark Studies for Hadoop HDFS/MapReduce and Sector/Sphere
- Added Interoperability metric to Hadoop HDFS/MapReduce and Sector/Sphere
- Added Scientific Applications metric to Hadoop HDFS/MapReduce and Sector/Sphere
- Di
- Done: biology summary (of summaries); GIS summary (of summaries); may need some modifications/additions
- Paper collections: biology (15), GIS (15 papers) so far
Meeting Minutes:
- Di
- In-progress: environmental and astronomy (need another week to finish)
- Paper collections: need more paper from environment (10)/astronomy (8)
July 25 - July 29
Progress:
- Neel
- Researched Nimbus
- Researched Magellan
- Researched FutureGrid
- Researched Science Clouds
- Researched WSO2 Stratos
- Di
- Summary of summaries: Astronomy and Environmental science
- Statistics of cloud platform and software usage
- Papers for Astronomy and Environmental science
Meeting Minutes
- Neel
- Di