Masters Thesis

[jay]

Hi Members,
I am a MSEE student at CalPoly,SLO. I am currently
working on my masters thesis. I chose cloud computing as the field I
wanted to work in, from there I chose cloud interoperability. I was
reading about cloud interoperability when I came across OCCI and CDMI.
I want to know in what specific areas can I make a contribution in.
Can I still become a part of OCCI and CDMI and do something that might
be considered thesis work or should I not even think about CDMI/OCCI
and look for something new?
Regards,
-Jay Flora

[Mark A. Carlson]

Hi Jay,

Welcome to the group. There are many areas in which research can be done
in both standards. The standards are still being created, so it is not too late
to get involved.

A good way to get up to speed is to review the specs and read the whitepaper.
Send us your comments so we can improve the standard.

Thanks,

-- mark

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Mark A. Carlson Sr. Architect Systems Group Phone x69559 / 303-223-6139 Email Mark.C...@Sun.COM

[Robin Harris]

Jay,

I do not consider myself competent to advise on such a subject.
However, I think that Ethan Miller, a professor at UC Santa Cruz might
be able to, or might have some better informed suggestions.

To my mind, the risk is that the pace of academic study of these areas
might not keep up with the fast-moving commercial changes that are
taking place right now. Issues around parallelism and latency
management seemed to me to be topics of enduring interest with direct
relevance to cloud computing.

I hope this helps and I wish you the best of luck in your studies.

Robin

[Andreas Aschenbrenner]

Dear Jay,

if you're interested in interoperability and security, there may be lots
of open questions with regard to authentication, rights management, and
security in storage clouds.

what kinds of security schemes are there in existing storage cloud
systems?, how do they relate to PKI?, how can you achieve e.g. task
delegation (e.g. tell a service, it should backup your data once a week
and delete the old stuff in you personal account) through simple HTTP
means?, how does all that interface to OpenID, Shibboleth, etc?, how can
you achieve efficient distributed rights management in an ecosystem of
various web applications interfacing with a shared cloud infrastructure?
/ or maybe even workflows bridging several clouds?

in general, new interaction patterns (http://tinyurl.com/ybgjmvc) will
emerge for web-borne distributed systems, and security may be an issue
for which people will seek guidance.

maybe something triggers your curiosity.
good luck with your thesis!,
Andi




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