Weekly Meeting minutes & Progress Reports

June 12-17

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.

Progress:

Neel:
- Researched Public Cloud Services
- Researched Community Cloud Services
Di:
Meeting Minutes:
Needs to find who is working on FutureGrid/Magellan, poc.
clarification of areas of investigation: cloud platform, cloud middleware, cloud application
Google : Google to Host Terabytes of Open-Source Science Data :http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2008/01/google-to-provi/

Di:
- Summarized papaers in Biology, Astronomy, and High Energy Physics.
- Filtered and collected papers (25) in different areas.
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.