Weekly Meeting minutes & Progress Reports

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:

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.
  • 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
  • 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

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