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TUCS GP Student Adnan Ashraf's Travel Report from EIT ICT Labs Summer School on Cloud Computing 2012
- Full name of the event: EIT ICT Labs Summer School on Cloud Computing 2012
- Place and date: Espoo, Finland, June 3rd–8th 2012
- Type of event: Summer School
- The scientific profile of the event: The main topics of the summer school were cloud computing and its applications. The lecturers talked about several interesting topics that range from technical aspects of cloud and data centers to the development of innovative business ideas by taking advantage from the rapidly growing cloud infrastructures and services.
- The summer school topics were as follows: introduction to cloud computing, business model frameworks, green data centers and green computing, mobile social media, e-learning, open API based public sector applications, Agilefant, CSC – Finnish IT center for science’s data center and services, scalable cloud computing and big data, energy saving in cloud data centers using FIT4Green, auto scaling in IaaS clouds using OpenNebula and Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud, mobile cloud computing with ThinkAir, entrepreneurship, startups, innovation and open innovation, Google App Engine, Warrantify, cloud computing in the physical world, and building an ambitious company.
- Opinion on the best paper and its topic: The best presentation in my opinion was energy saving in the cloud data centers using FIT4Green by Corentin Dupont.
- Number of participants: 37
- Social events: Swimming, sauna and sausages at Otaniemi beach; Dinner at restaurant Saaga in Helsinki down town.
- Touristic impressions: The participants were happy about the topics and their quality. They also had a positive opinion about the group works that were carried out during the summer school. The venue was nice, but the weather was colder than the expectations.