Cloud computing & virtualization

News and Updates

NIST Final ‘Big Data’ Framework Will Help Make Sense of Our Data-Drenched Age

October 29, 2019

To improve approaches for analyzing very large quantities of data, computer scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have

NIST Releases Cloud Computing Service Metrics Description (NIST Special Publication 500-307)

April 24, 2018

NIST released Cloud Computing Service Metrics Description (NIST Special Publication 500-307), a document that proposes a framework to identify and characterize

NIST Releases Evaluation of Cloud Computing Services Based on NIST SP 800-145 (NIST SP 500-322)

February 23, 2018

NIST releases Evaluation of Cloud Computing Services Based on NIST SP 800-145 (NIST SP 500-322), a report that provides clarification for (1) qualifying a given

Projects and Programs

Software Defined Virtual Networks

NIST is working to develop test and measurement techniques to advance the state of the art in network virtualization, network service function chaining

Comparative Mammalian Proteome Aggregator Resource (CoMPARe) Program

NIST is developing a portal to enable researchers to mine high-quality proteomic data from phylogenetically diverse species, to identify advantageous biological

NIST Cloud Computing Forensic Science

Cloud computing is a model for enabling ubiquitous, convenient, on-demand network access to a shared pool of configurable computing resources (e.g., networks

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Smart and Connected Systems

Publications

Deep Reinforcement Learning for Edge Service Placement in Softwarized Industrial Cyber-Physical System

May 6, 2021

Author(s)

Hamid Gharavi

Future industrial cyber-physical system (CPS) devices are expected to request a large amount of delay-sensitive services that need to be processed at the edge

Intelligent Task Caching in Edge Cloud via Bandit Learning

March 19, 2021

Author(s)

Hamid Gharavi

Task caching, based on edge cloud, aims to meet the latency requirements of computation- intensive and data-intensive tasks (such as augmented reality). However

Cloudy with a chance of peptides: accessibility, scalability and reproducibility with cloud-hosted environments

January 29, 2021

Author(s)

Benjamin Neely

Cloud hosted environments offer known benefits when computational needs outstrip affordable local workstations, enabling high-performance compute without a

Online VM Auto-Scaling Algorithms for Application Hosting in a Cloud

September 1, 2020

Author(s)

Yang Guo, Alexander Stolyar, Anwar Walid

We consider the auto-scaling problem for application hosting in a cloud, where applications are elastic and the number of requests changes over time. The