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

NIST Cloud Computing Program - NCCP

Comparative Serum Proteomics Project

Initially the Comparative Mammalian Proteome Aggregator Resource (CoMPARe) Program will generate proteomic data from sera from 25 different species that

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

Publications

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

NIST Cloud Computing Forensic Science Challenges

August 25, 2020

Author(s)

Martin Herman, Michaela Iorga, Ahsen Michael Salim, Robert H. Jackson, Mark R. Hurst, Ross Leo, Richard Lee, Nancy Landreville, Anand K. Mishra, Yien Wang, Rodrigo Sardinas

This document summarizes research performed by the members of the NIST Cloud Computing Forensic Science Working Group and aggregates, categorizes, and discusses