News 2009

April, 2009, Augustus version 0.3.1 was released. Augustus is an open source platform for estimating and deploying multiple predictive models that was developed by Open Data. Version 0.3.1 was just released on Source Forge.

January, 2009, MalStone. Open Data Group worked together with other members of the Open Cloud Consortium to help develop a cloud computing benchmark for data intensive computing called MalStone.

Recent talks on cloud computing. Rober Grossman has given several recent talks on cloud computing, including:

• An Overview of the Open Cloud Consortium, Cloud Computing Interoperability Workshop, in conjunction with the Object Management Group (OMG) Technical Meeting, Crystal City, Virginia, March 16, 2009.
• Extending Analytics to Clouds, 8th Annual ON*VECTOR International Photonics Workshop, La Jolla, California, February 24, 2009.
• Cloud Computing: The Importance of the Data Center for Science, AAAS Annual Meeting, Chicago, Illinois, February 16, 2009.

News 2008

Sector/Sphere and the Open Cloud Testbed win the SC 08 Bandwidth Challenge. The NCDM and the Open Cloud Consortium entry that highlighted several applications developed with the Sector storage cloud and Sphere compute cloud and running on the the Open Cloud Testbed won the SC 08 Bandwidth Challenge. Open Data Group is a member of the Open Cloud Consortium and developed the benchmarks and performed interoperability studies that was part of the winning entry. SC 08 took place in Austin this year during November 15-21.

Augustus version 0.3.0 was released. Augustus is an open source platform for estimating and deploying multiple predictive models that was developed by Open Data. Version 0.3.0 was just released on Source Forge.

Robert Grossman gave several talks on cloud computing:

• A talk at Cloud Computing at its Applications CCA 08 in Chicago on Oct 23, 2008 that looked at cloud computing from a viewpoint in which the data center is the unit of computation.
• A Plenary Talk on cloud computing the UK e-Science All Hands Meeting 2008 in Edinburgh, UK on September 9, 2008.
• A talk on August 26, 2008 at KDD 08 in Las Vegas comparing Sector/Sphere to Hadoop. Sector is about twice as fast.
• A Keynote Talk on cloud computing at the 2008 IEEE Congress on Services (Services 2008) on July 10, 2008 in Hawaii.

Open Cloud Consortium. Open Data Group is participating in the newly formed Open Cloud Consortium (OCC). The purpose of the OCC is to support the advancement of research in cloud computing, to develop open standards in cloud computing, to develop open source software for cloud computing, to manage testbeds for cloud computing, to run meetings, workshops and other events related to cloud computing, and in general to advance the state of the art in cloud computing. Robert Grossman is the initial Chair of the OCC.

Augustus Version 0.2.6.6 was released on Source Forge. Augustus is an open source infrastructure for building and deploying data mining and statistical models for large data sets and high volume data streams. Augustus is compliant with the Predictive Model Markup Language.

News 2007

Award. Robert Grossman led the The Angle Project, which won First Place in the 2007 Analytics Challenge at the ACM/IEEE International Conference for High Performance Computing and Communications 2007 (SC07). The title of the project was "Angle: Detecting Anomalies and Emergent Behavior from Distributed Data in Near Real Time."

SIGKDD Award: Robert Grossman was awarded the ACM Special Interest Group on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (SIGKDD) Service Award for his "role in the development of open and scalable architectures and standards for the SIGKDD and Global KDD Communities."

Best Paper Award: The paper "Data Quality Models for High Volume Transaction Streams: A Case Study" by Joesph Bugajski, Robert Grossman, Chris Curry, David Locke and Steve Vejcik won the second annual Data Mining Practice Prize at KDD 2007. The prize is awarded each year "for work that has had a significant and quantitative impact in the application in which it was applied."

Augustus Version 0.2.6.5 was released on Source Forge. Augustus is an open source infrastructure for building and deploying data mining and statistical models for large data sets and high volume data streams. Augustus is compliant with the Predictive Model Markup Language.

DM-SSP 07 Workshop. Robert Grossman organized the Workshop on Data Mining Standards, Services and Platforms (DM-SSP 07), at KDD-2007 in San Jose on August 12, 2007. The workshop highlighted recent progress on developing standard-based services for data mining and data intensive computing. This year's focus was on cloud computing.

PMML Version 3.2. The Predictive Model Markup Language (PMML), Version 3.2 was released in May, 2007. Open Data participated in the development of this standard.

New Methodology Introduced. A very practical mechanism for improving predictive analytics as the amount of data increases, is to build an analytic infrastructure that builds automatically many predictive instead of the more traditional approach that builds one (or a few) manually. Robert Grossman gave a lecture on this recently: Modeling Highly Large, Heterogeneous Data Sets: Towards a Billion Models, DIMACS Workshop on Recent Advances in Mathematics and Information Sciences for Analysis and Understanding of Massive and Diverse Sources of Data, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, May 15, 2007. How this idea was applied to analyze transactional data from Visa is described in two papers at KDD 2007: Robert Grossman, Joseph Bugajski, Chris Curry, David Locke, and Steve Vejcik, Detecting Changes in Large Data Sets of Payments Cards Data: A Case Study, and Joseph Bugajski, Chris Curry, Robert Grossman, David Locke, Steve Vejcik, Data Quality Models for High Volume Transaction Streams at the KDD Data Mining Case Studies Workshop.

News 2006

DM-SSP 06 Workshop. Robert Grossman organized the Workshop on Data Mining Standards, Services and Platforms (DM-SSP 06), at KDD-2006 in Philadelphia on August 20, 2006. The workshop highlighted recent progress on developing standard-based services for data mining and data intensive computing.

Augustus Version 0.2.4 was released on Source Forge. Augustus is an open source infrastructure for building and deploying data mining and statistical models for large data sets and high volume data streams.

News 2005

Augustus Version 0.2.1 was released on Source Forge. Augustus is an open source infrastructure for building and deploying data mining and statistical models for large data sets and high volume data streams. Augustus is compliant with the Predictive Model Markup Language (PMML). Augustus supports vectorized operations and is designed for data sets that are too large for existing open source data mining systems. This can be downloaded from Source Forge: www.sourceforge.net/projects/augustus.

PMML Version 3.1. The Predictive Model Markup Language (PMML), Version 3.2 was released in December, 2005. Open Data participated in the development of this standard.

Industry related. Robert Grossman was elected to the six member executive board for the ACM Special Interest Group on Knowledge Discovery in Data (ACM SIGKDD) for the term 2005-2009.

Industry related. Robert Grossman was the general chair of KDD-2005, The Eleventh ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining that took place on August 21-24, 2005 in Chicago.