HPDC Cloud Panel

2-4 pm June 25 HPDC 2008 at Radisson Hotel Boston

Summary

• Geoffrey Fox (Moderator) Indiana University Cloud Systems Panel Summary

Panel Contributions

• Randy Bryant CMU Data Intensive Cloud Computing
• Ian Foster Chicago Cloudy Thoughts
• Greg Pfister Consultant Answering Panel Questions
• Dennis Quan IBM Cloud Computing
• Dan Reed Microsoft Seattle:We Know About Clouds!

Questions to Panel

• What is and equally interestingly what isn't a cloud? (Especially with today’s hype – all is a cloud?)
• What are implication of Clouds for Enterprise Data Centers?
• If TeraGrid evolves to PetaCloud, how would it look?
• What are research issues for Clouds?
• Can one (or who could) "trust" clouds?
• Will Cloud interoperability be important; if so at what interface(s) will it be provided?
• What is the killer app for clouds?

Some earlier meetings: OGF23 Barcelona Spain June 2-6 2008

• Geoffrey Fox Multicore Grids and the Data Deluge Keynote at HPCS 2008 at The 22nd EUROPEAN CONFERENCE ON MODELLING AND SIMULATION (ECMS 2008) Multiconference Nicosia Cyprus June 4 2008
• Alexis Richardson, cohesiveFT. Being in the Clouds, Elastic Server OGF23 Cloud Workshop June 2 2008
• Shantenu Jha, Andre Merzky, and Geoffrey Fox Clouds Provide Grids with Higher- Levels of Abstraction and Explicit Support for Usage Modes OGF23 Cloud Workshop June 2 2008
• Marc-Elian BéginSix² Sàrl, Switzerland An EGEE Comparative study: Grids and Clouds – evolution or revolution? OGF23 Cloud Workshop June 2 2008

Some earlier meetings: OGF22 Boston February 25-28 2008

• OGF22 Cloud Session Summary
• Irving Wladawsky-Berger, Chairman Emeritus of the IBM Academy. OGF22 Keynote Cloud Computing, Grids and the upcoming Cambrian Explosion in IT February 27 2008
• Geoffrey Fox, Indiana University. OGF22 Cloud Systems Session Introduction February 27 2008
• Steven Newhouse, Microsoft. Remarks for Cloud Systems BoF February 27 2008
• Kate Keahey, Argonne National Laboratory. First Steps in the Clouds February 27 2008
• Martin Swany, Internet 2 and the University of Delaware. Cloud Computing – a view from the Network cloud February 27 2008