Workshop: A Cloud View on Computing

Project Information

Discipline

Computer Science (401) 

Orientation

Education 

June 6-10, 2011

Cloud computing provides elastic compute and storage resources to solve data intensive science and engineering problems, but the number of students from under-represented universities who are involved and exposed to this area is minimal. In order to attract underserved students, we intend to train faculty members and graduate students from the Association of Computer/Information Sciences and Engineering Departments at Minority Institutions (ADMI) in the area of cloud computing through a one-week workshop conducted on the campus of Elizabeth City State University. This workshop will enable faculty members and graduate students from underserved institutions, who are involved with minority undergraduate students to gain information about various aspects of cloud computing while serving as a catalyst in propagating their knowledge to their students.

The desired competencies for faulty and graduate students to acquire and/or refine in cloud computing are: • Understand and articulate the challenges associated with distributed solutions to large-scale problems, e.g., scheduling, load balancing, fault tolerance, memory and bandwidth limitations, etc. • Understand and explain the concepts behind MapReduce • Understand and express well-known algorithms in the MapReduce framework. • Understand and reason about engineering tradeoffs in alternative approaches to processing large datasets. • Understand how current solutions to the particular research problem can be cast into the MapReduce framework. • Explain the advantages in using a MapReduce framework over existing approaches. • Articulate how adopting the MapReduce framework can potentially lead to advances in the state of the art by enabling processing not possible before.

The curricula and tutorials can be reused in other cloud computing educational activities

Project Contact

Project Lead

Jerome Mitchell (jemitche) 

Project Manager

Jerome Mitchell (jemitche) 

Project Members

Timothy Holston, Constance Bland, F Doswell, Willie Fuller, Candice Adams, Mohammad Hasan, Natarajan Meghanathan, deshea simon, yenhung hu  

Resource Requirements

Hardware System

• india (IBM iDataPlex at IU)

 

FutureGrid will serve as a platform for communicating concepts of cloud computing

15 generic users will need modest resources

Project Timeline

Submitted

05/09/2011 - 10:56 

Completed

03/22/2013