11 | | To be provided by session chairs. |
| 11 | The Cloud session was seeded with eight short talks to US and EU cloud |
| 12 | research projects, capturing a range of cloud system research issues. |
| 13 | The projects involved six cloud research platforms - NSF |
| 14 | Clouds (Chameleon and !CloudLab), Multi-Clouds, the UW-Madison city-scale |
| 15 | heterogeneous wireless cloud, GEANT GTS, and Grid5000. The topics |
| 16 | spanned cloud programmability, scheduling, federation, applications, and |
| 17 | the emerging wired and wireless edge clouds. A clear common theme of the |
| 18 | discussion was about the reality of multiple co-existing clouds, the |
| 19 | approach to harness and expose a new paradigm across diverse and |
| 20 | potentially federated clouds, and the new needs of addressing software |
| 21 | design, execution, and management of complex applications for Internet |
| 22 | users as well as Internet of Things devices. |
| 23 | |
| 24 | Discussions amidst these presentation conveyed a converging consensus of |
| 25 | the future cloud paradigm, with deeply programmable computing, |
| 26 | networking, and storage elements across Internet in both data |
| 27 | centers and near the edge. It is agreed that getting the multiple cloud |
| 28 | platforms to interface is readily feasible at the data plane; at the |
| 29 | same time, multiple avenues exist to enable control plane federation via |
| 30 | software and automation. The eight projects alone have already involved |
| 31 | federated infrastructure across US, EU, South America, and Asia. |
| 32 | Federation based on commonly agreed API as well as third-party |
| 33 | connectors (mapping resource requests from one API to another) have been |
| 34 | explored. The community involved in these efforts sees a lot of |
| 35 | opportunity for further orchestrated efforts to enable a global |
| 36 | environment to facilitate production as well as research use of it. |
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