UPM tour in Silicon Valley

published by admin on Tue, 05/15/2012 - 23:12

Prof. Ricardo Jimenez-Peris from UPM has made a tour in Silicon Valley curing 7-12th May 2012 visiting top companies in the cloud landscape presenting and publicizing CumuloNimbo.

CumuloNimbo paper on ERCIM News Special Issue on Big Data

published by upm-admin on Wed, 04/11/2012 - 11:31

A white paper on CumuloNimbo has been published in the ERCIM news special issue on Big Data:

http://ercim-news.ercim.eu/en89/special/cumulonimbo-a-highly-scalable-tr...

Cumulo-Nimbo paper accepted for being presented at CloudFutures 2012 - May 7–8, 2012 | Berkeley, California, USA

published by admin on Tue, 04/03/2012 - 14:53

UPM, Minho and McGill have written a joint paper on CumuloNimbo early results of scalable transactional Java that have been accepted for presented at Cloud Futures 2012  May 7–8, 2012 | Berkeley, California, USA.

Towards a Paradigm Shift in Cloud Data Stores

published by admin on Tue, 04/03/2012 - 14:48

Today the industry is at an inflection point in the growth of big unstructured data that is motivating the need for storage systems that are optimized for extremely large-scale data – large in:

Yahoo! Presented Omid at HUG Meetup in Bay Area

published by yahoo-admin on Mon, 04/02/2012 - 12:16

Yahoo! presented Omid, its open source release for transactional HBase, at Hadoop User Group (HUG) meetup in the bay area. HUG organizers have released the video of the presentation on YouTube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4MrMRTIV54

Yahoo! Presented Omid (Transactional HBase) at Microsoft Research Silicon Valley, Cloudera, and HortonWorks

published by yahoo-admin on Fri, 03/16/2012 - 16:50

Yahoo! presented Omid at Microsoft Research Silicon Valley, in which the top researchers are working on efficient support of transactions on top distributed key-value stores. Moreover, Yahoo! presented Omid at major hadoop players, Cloudera and Hortonworks.

Omid is the open source project released under the umbrella of CumuloNimbo (https://github.com/yahoo/omid/). Omid provides transactional support on top of distributed data stores including HBase.

 

CumuloNimbo selected to participate in the ICT Finance Market Place

published by admin on Mon, 03/05/2012 - 16:29

CumuloNimbo has been selected as one of the projects with the highest potential impact among the ones that submitted a proposal to participate in the ICT Finance Market Place part of Tech Media Europe to be held in Lisbon on 26th March 2012. In this event the exploitation plans for the planned spinoff to commercialize CumuloNimbo main results will be presented to search for capital investment. Prof. Ricardo Jimenez-Peris will be presenting the exploitation plans of the planned spin-off and the CumuloNimbo breakthroughs in cloud computing.

CumuloNimbo among the 5-top projects with highest potential impact in SEQUOIA assessment study

published by admin on Mon, 03/05/2012 - 16:22

SEQUOIA has performed an socio-economic impact assessment study of 30 EU projects in the area of Software as a Service and Internet of Services. CumuloNimbo has been one of the projects analyzed and it has been on of the 5-top-scored projects with highest potential impact among all the projects studied. Prof. Ricardo Jimenez-Peris as technical coordinator has been invited to present the project at the SEQUOIA Final Conference to be held in the EU Commission premises on 13th March 2012.

Ministerial visit marks Flexiant’s pioneering work in CumuloNimbo

published by upm-admin on Tue, 11/22/2011 - 10:36

Angela Constance MSP, Fergus Ewing (Minister for Energy, Enterprise and Tourism) and Alyn Smith (MEP) today visited the Flexiant headquarters to hear more about their important role in the Cumulo Nimbo project.

MEP Alyn Smith was impressed with the progress of the project so far. He said: “The software being developed here is amongst the best in the world and Flexiant should be congratulated on their successful work.

“As we now look forward to the next EU research programme in 2013, it is encouraging to see the current programme delivering so successfully.”

The LSD from UPM organizes the 30th IEEE Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems (UPM) at Madrid during 4-7th October 2011

published by admin on Tue, 11/01/2011 - 20:20

The LSD from UPM has organized the 30th IEEE Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems (UPM) at Madrid during 4-7th October 2011.

SRDS is the premier venue for reliable distributed systems. The conference had over 80 attendants and was very successful.

http://lsd.ls.fi.upm.es:11888/srds/

The conference had two keynote speakers, Ricardo Baeza-Yates Vice President of Yahoo! Research Europe and Latin America, Head of Barcelona Yahoo! Labs and Mario Scilia project officer of the European Commission.

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