A glance of Cloud Camp Seoul 2009

Today, I had a chance to attend Cloud Camp Seoul 2009 which was jointly organized by Enomaly and Korea Cloud Computing Association. It is a good experience to interact industry people, government people and academic people in a single forum. I had a chance to listen Reuven Cohen ("The Growth and Impact of Cloud Computing"), and Dr. Richard Reiner ("Challenges of Cloud Computing: Availability and Security"). I also meet them, its a wonderful moment there. Here I am listing some thoughts that I found missing in the CC camp, may be we can improve in future...

* I feel, they are trying to define cloud computing as more market oriented way...may be cloud came first in market from enterprise rather than academia that's why....
* In such camp it will better to involve paper presentation from academia, and researcher from research institutes also so that better interaction will be there...
* I feel, there is a need of tri-integration among Government, Enterprises and academic institutes. I think Government and Enterprises can be benefit from research work of academia, they should think how can involve universities in CC revolution, may be a we can think towards UniversityCloud or CampusCloud or providing them free cloud testbed for research purpose. So far as I know many researcher are worrying about free testbed so that we can have a concept to introduce "Research as a Service". So in future we can make a CC research-hub, it can be very useful to disseminate the "Knowledge as a Service" that we can utilize on various sectors such as K-12 education or Village Knowledge Center or telecenter or telemedicine sectors (these are few example of empowering community towards ICT and creating a sustainable infrastructure in poor and remote areas)
* I found Korean Government is investing much budget on CC and research work, this is very good indication for potential application area on CC.
* There are much concern of CC security and interoperability

Anatomy of Cloud Computing Platform
— As the IT operations continue to evolve and transform the business towards agility and adaptability to ever changing rules of marketplace, the efficiency of any IT operation is of paramount significance. The phrase ‘time to market' has a completely new meaning in today's dynamic business environment where the only constant is change. This rapidly changing environment has lead the IT and business leaders alike to re-think the ‘procurement to provisioning' process with one goal in mind - Efficient use of resources.

A Hompage as a Paper

Chen Zhang, a Ph.D. student from Michigan State University,wrote "our lives are dipped into papers everyday. Reading and writing papers from year to year, how many of you are still keeping excited? If you have already get bored, I am sorry to have you face it again. But please, please do not close your browser, nor even smash your computer. Life goes on. Just take a sketch of one more paper, and your future shines one bit more."

I like his word "Life goes on. Just take a sketch of one more paper, and your future shines one bit more"

Megabytes, Gigabytes, Terabytes… What Are They?

Processor or Virtual Storage

• 1 Bit = Binary Digit
• 8 Bits = 1 Byte
• 1024 Bytes = 1 Kilobyte
• 1024 Kilobytes = 1 Megabyte
• 1024 Megabytes = 1 Gigabyte
• 1024 Gigabytes = 1 Terabyte
• 1024 Terabytes = 1 Petabyte
• 1024 Petabytes = 1 Exabyte
• 1024 Exabytes = 1 Zettabyte
• 1024 Zettabytes = 1 Yottabyte
• 1024 Yottabytes = 1 Brontobyte
• 1024 Brontobytes = 1 Geopbyte

Disk Storage

• 1 Bit = Binary Digit
• 8 Bits = 1 Byte
• 1000 Bytes = 1 Kilobyte
• 1000 Kilobytes = 1 Megabyte
• 1000 Megabytes = 1 Gigabyte
• 1000 Gigabytes = 1 Terabyte
• 1000 Terabytes = 1 Petabyte
• 1000 Petabytes = 1 Exabyte
• 1000 Exabytes = 1 Zettabyte
• 1000 Zettabytes = 1 Yottabyte
• 1000 Yottabytes = 1 Brontobyte
• 1000 Brontobytes = 1 Geopbyte

For more......

Petabyte Age

The Petabyte Age is different because more is different. Kilobytes were stored on floppy disks. Megabytes were stored on hard disks. Terabytes were stored in disk arrays. Petabytes are stored in the cloud. As we moved along that progression, we went from the folder analogy to the file cabinet analogy to the library analogy to — well, at petabytes we ran out of organizational analogies.

Read meore on:

http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/magazine/16-07/pb_theory

The week of Design Patterns with "Gang of Four"

This week, I had a wonderful chance to listen gang of four of Design Patterns in Seoul. I had a great moment to introduce myself with Professor Ralph E. Johnson, who came from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in my university. I would like to express my sincere thanks to Professor Inkyu Kim for conducting this seminar (“Fifteen Years of Design Patterns").

Today, I had a chance to listen Erich Gamma ("Erich Gamma and the world with the opening seminar developers") at Inter-Continental Hotel at Seoul. I got a great experience to learn an open SW development platform for collaboration “Jazz". Thanks KIPA (Korean SW Industry Promotion Agency).

Cloud Computing Resources

A good collection of cloud computing resources

http://www.cloud9s.net/cloudcomputingresources.html

Three story of life....

Steve Jobs, CEO, Apple and Pixar Animation has given a speech about three story of his life......which gives the inspirations to every students.

For more details, please check his presentation.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ykUyVFkizfQ&NR=1&feature=fvwp

The struggle of life.......

The reality of the life

Professor Randy Pausch (Oct. 23, 1960 - July 25, 2008) from Carnegie Mellon University, gave his last lecture at the university Sept. 18, 2007, before a packed McConomy Auditorium. In his moving presentation, "Real...

For more details, please check his presentation.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ji5_MqicxSo

We, as a researcher, can learn many things from his life.Very few people will born in this world like him......I really inspired from his life.

Above the suspicion

Things Google knows about you

• Everything you search for using Google
• Every web page you visit that has Google Adsense ads on it
• Which country you're in
• Every Blogger page you visit, and the referring page
• If you have an Adsense account
  • Your full name, address and bank account details
  • The IP address of everyone who visits your pages with Adsense ads on them
  • The number of visitors to each of your pages with Adsense ads on them
• If you use a GMail account
  • Who you send emails to
  • Who sends emails to you
  • The contents of those emails
  • The contents of all emails received from any mailing lists of which you are a member, even if they are private mailing lists.
• Even if you don't use a GMail account
  • The contents of any emails you send to anyone who does use a GMail account
  • The contents of any emails you send to any mailing lists of which any one member uses a GMail account
• If you're a member of Orkut
  • Your online social network, interests and groups

Model Integrated Computing (MIC)

Model-Integrated Computing (MIC) is a model-based concept for software development that facilitates to synthesis the application programs into models. It employs domain-specific models to represent the software, its environment, and their relationship and well-suited for the rapid design of complex computer-based systems. MIC concept is used to transform one DSML into another DSML.
Several tools available for metamodeling such as AToM3, MetaEdit+, DOME, Generic Model-ing Environment (GME) , and KOGGE. GME is a graphical and meta-programmable tool that is based on the principles of MIC and it automates the creation of domain-specific models. GME provides a universal design environment that can be configured for a wide range of domains.

Grid computing

Grid computing is a form of distributed computing in which an organization (business, university, etc.) uses its existing computers (desktop and/or cluster nodes) to handle its own long-running computational tasks. This differs from volunteer computing in several ways:

• The computing resources can be trusted; i.e. one can assume that the PCs don't return results that are intentionally wrong, and that they don't falsify credit. Hence there is typically no need for replication.
• There is no need for screensaver graphics; in fact it may be desirable to have the computation be completely invisible and out of the control of the PC user.
• Client deployment is typically automated.