Check this out! :) ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Steve Loughran <[email protected]> Date: Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 1:46 AM Subject: Funding opportunities for Academic Research on/near Hadoop To: Hadoop Core user <[email protected]>
This is a little note to advise universities working on Hadoop related projects, that they may be able to get some money and cluster time for some fun things http://www.hpl.hp.com/open_innovation/irp/ "The HP Labs Innovation Research Program is designed to create opportunities -- at colleges, universities and research institutes around the world -- for breakthrough collaborative research with HP. HP Labs is proud to announce the 2009 Innovation Research Program (IRP). Through this open Call for Proposals, we are soliciting your best ideas on a range of topics with the goal of establishing new research collaborations. Proposals will be invited against targeted IRP Research Topics, and will be accepted via an online submission tool. They will be reviewed by HP Labs scientists for alignment with the selected research topic and impact of the proposed research. Awards under the 2009 HP Labs Innovation Research Program are primarily intended to provide financial support for a graduate student to assist the Principal Investigator conducting a collaborative research project with HP Labs. Consequently, awards will provide cash support for one year in the range of USD $50,000 to $75,000, including any overhead." If you look at the research topics there is a PDF file listing topics of interest, of which three general categories may be of interest: http://www.hpl.hp.com/open_innovation/irp/topics_2009.html 1. "Intelligent Infrastructure" - very large scale storage systems, management, etc. 2. Sustainability -especially sustainable datacentres: how to measure application power consumption, and improve it; how to include knowledge of the physical infrastructure in computation 3. "Cloud" - Large-scale computing frameworks, Data management and security, Federation of heterogeneous cloud sites, Programming tools and mash-ups, Complex event processing and management, Massive-Scale Data Analytics, Cloud monitoring and management. If you look at that Cloud topic, not only does Hadoop-related work seem to fit in, the call for proposals is fairly explicit in mentioning the ecosystems suitability as a platform for your work. Which makes sense, as it is the only very-large-scale data-centric computing platform out there for which the source code is freely available. Yet also, because it is open source, it is a place where, university permitting, your research can be contributed back to the community, and used by grateful users the world over. What is also interesting is that little line at the bottom, "We encourage investigators to utilize the capabilities in the Open Cirrus testbed as well as to share their experience, data, and algorithms with other researchers using the testbed. " Which implies that cluster time on the new cross-company, cross-university homogenous datacentre test bed should be available to test your ideas. If you are at university, have a look at the proposals and see if you can come up with a proposal for innovative work in this area. The timescales are fairly aggressive -that is to ensure that proposers will know early on whether or not they were successful, and the money will be in their University's hands for the next academic year. -Steve (for followup queries, follow the links on the site or email me direct; I am vaguely involved in some of this) -- Best Regards, Edward J. Yoon @ NHN, corp. [email protected] http://blog.udanax.org
