Revision as of 16:32, 28 October 2011

OpenStack Academic Initiative

Mission:

• provide a place for all research academics efforts can be advertised and found, about and around OpenStack (not generic about IaaS or PaaS)
  • a list of papers published and ongoing research
  • a list of conferences about cloud computing
• maintain a list of ideas for the companies to sponsor research,like a "market"
• a place for the companies to say what they need and research can execute
  • undergrad level, gsoc-style, time starved but there are many of them. it's important to be easy for them to contribute
  • masters level, more in depth work, empirical studies like performance evaluation
  • phd level, exploratory type of research
• handle the funding, hr tasks, mentoring: who's going to manage this?
  • mentoring is intense and time consuming, but crucial for the success of research
• provide resources, like hardware for tests, for researchers
• advertise this initiative among researchers
  • Example: setup OpenStack tracks at a couple of relevant conferences

Research Areas

Openstack is a very nice platform that could be leveraged by Academia for various research projects. Areas include:

• (General) Distributed Systems
• Scalable data layer
• Software Defined Networking
• Policy and languages
• Algorithms
  • Resource Allocation
  • Scheduling
  • Network optimization
• Data mining and machine learning
  • Monitoring and data collection of large data centers
  • Mining patterns from collected data and applications e.g. anomaly detection etc.

Next steps:

Identify the group responsible for this initiative and define action items, deadlines and deliverables.