CloudNet

23/05/2020

It is shared with great pleasure that a research paper titled "Burst-Aware Predictive Autoscaling for Containerized Microservices" by Muhammad Abdullah, Waheed Iqbal, Josep Lluis Berral, Jorda Polo, and David Carrera has been accepted for publication at IEEE Transactions on Service Computing (IF 5.7). This work is an output of the collaboration between PUCIT CloudNet Lab (Pakistan) and Barcelona Super Computing Center (Spain). This is the second IEEE Transaction paper produced by Abdullah. The IEEE transactions are the most prestigious and top venues in the Computer Science field. This is the second IEEE Transaction paper produced by Abdullah. The IEEE transactions are the most prestigious and top venues in the Computer Science field. Congratulations Muhammad Abdullah, Waheed Iqbal

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03/10/2019

It is shared with great pleasure that a research paper
"Learning Predictive Autoscaling Policies for Cloud-hosted Microservices Using Trace-driven Modeling"
by Muhammad Abdullah, Waheed Iqbal, Faisal Bukhari, and Abdelkarim Erradi is accepted for presentation and publication as a full research article in the "11th IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing Technology and Science (CloudCom 2019)" to be held in Sydney, Australia on 11-13 December 2019.

16/02/2017

CloudNet lab is hiring internees for four months. The selected students will need to spend at least 5 working hour per day in the lab. If you are a final year student of PUCIT and interested in this opportunity, fill the following form:

https://docs.google.com/a/pucit.edu.pk/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdzy9_DsJwrC-cPIWoCi7VMTP93tn6rGnKeSBq1GTvasXc7TQ/viewform

The internship will be paid, the tentative remuneration will be around 4 to 5K per month.

28/07/2016

Thesis Defense Invitation of CloudNet Fellow:
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Student Name: Malik Taimoor Changaiz Awan
Thesis Title: A Simulation Framework for Learning Dynamic Resource Provisioning Policies for Multi-tier Applications using Reinforcement Learning Approach
Date and Time: 3:30pm, July 29, 2016 (Friday)
Venue: AL-Khwarizmi Lecture Theater, PUCIT, Old Campus

28/07/2016

Thesis Defense Invitation of CloudNet Fellow:
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Student Name: Muhammad Abdullah
Thesis Title: Auto-Scaling of Multi-tier Web Applications using Containers and Virtual Machines
Date and Time: 3:00pm, July 29, 2016 (Friday)
Venue: AL-Khwarizmi Lecture Theater, PUCIT, Old Campus

20/07/2016

Cloud Computing and Networks Research Lab (CloudNet) was established in June 2015 at the PUCIT, Old Campus. Here is a brief summary of the lab activities since the inception of the lab:

- Students and faculty working with CloudNet lab has published 5 research papers including one IEEE Systems journal paper.
- 8 MPhil students completed their Thesis in the lab.
- 40 Undergraduate students completed their final year projects in the lab.
- The lab has submitted approximately worth 10 million rupees proposal to a funding agency.

20/07/2016

Cloud Computing and Network's (CloudNet) Lab at PUCIT is looking for final year groups to start working on the following projects immediately:
1. SearchDeal.pk: Web-based consolidation of e-commerce stores operating in Pakistan. We have a basic system already online, check www.searchdeal.pk.

2. Urdu News Search Engine: Web and mobile based Urdu news search engine and analytics. We have a basic prototype already online, check www.newslink.pk

3. SocialBlood: A social network to donate and promote blood donations

4. ConnectMe: A voice-based social mobile app to connect people based on their interests

If you are a final year student at PUCIT and interested to work any of these projects, fill the following form:
http://www.goo.gl/3THjT3

29/01/2016

Now the CloudNet lab at PUCIT, old campus has a working private cloud using OpenNebula. Thank you Muhammad Abdullaha (MPhil student) to prepare the testbed for the experiments.

Currently the cloud can support to launch more than 64 virtual machines using 7 physical machines!

14/01/2016

Slide for Docker Bangkok Meetup

09/10/2015

Cloud Computing and Big Data summer camp is concluded with project presentations. Students have done excellent work!! Although there was a great learning curve for the students to learn tools like Spark, HBase, Hadoop, NodeJS, and Lucene but still students developed good working prototypes.

17/09/2015

A paper titled "On Providing Response Time Guarantees to a Cloud-hosted Telemedicine Web Service" of the CloudNet lab is accepted at CloudComp conference.

6th EAI International Conference on Cloud Computing THE REGISTRATION IS OPENED! ‘CloudComp 2015: Connecting researchers and industry practitioners’ – Read full interview with Dr. Chan-Hyun Youn, General Chair for CloudComp 2015: http://blog.eai.eu/dr-youn-cloudcomp-2015-connecting-researchers-an…