Lead or attend a BoF! Meet with your peers! Present new work! Don't miss these special activities designed to maximize the value of your time at the conference. Birds-of-a-Feather sessions are very informal gatherings of persons interested in a particular topic.
Scheduling a BoF
BoFs may be scheduled during the conference at the registration desk or in advance by contacting bofs@usenix.org with "FCW '14 BoF" in the subject line and the following information in the body of the email:
BoF title
Organizer name and affiliation
Date and time preference
Brief description of BoF (optional)
BoF Schedule (A/V provided in all rooms, unless otherwise noted).
WiAC '14 Welcome Get-Together Tuesday, June 17, 2014, 7:00 p.m.-8:00 p.m., Columbus Ballroom B
Leave the laptop in your hotel room and join us at the WiAC ’14 Welcome Get-Together. Come for the networking, and stay for the sampling of unique food and drink that define Philly. All FCW ’14 attendees—of all genders—are welcome.
Board Game Night Tuesday, June 17, 2014, 8:00 p.m.-10:00 p.m., Columbus Ballroom B
Join us on Tuesday night for some good old-fashioned board games. Take a step back into the past and test your knowledge playing the Totally 80s edition of Trivial Pursuit. Challenge your fellow attendees to a game of Scrabble or Pictionary. Bring your own games, too!
TOSCA User BoF Blue Thunder Somogyi, Solution Architect, Cisco Advanced Services, Data Center and Cloud Automation Wednesday, June 19, 2014, 8:00 p.m.-9:00 p.m., Columbus Ballroom B
The Topology and Orchestration Specification for Cloud Applications (TOSCA) is an emerging standard ratified by OASIS January 2014 for describing the deployment and lifecycle of cloud workloads. If your organization is embracing TOSCA, or an alternative such as CAMP or HEAT, please join us to discuss the evolving cloud orchestration standards ecosystem.
VMware Vendor BoF: Machine Learning and Data Analysis at VMware
Xiaoyun Zhu, Staff Engineer; Anne Holler, Principal Engineer; Pradeep Padala, Staff Engineer; VMware
Thursday, June 20, 2014, 8:00 p.m.-9:00 p.m., Columbus Ballroom A
Virtualization enables the elastic allocation of resources to workloads. Right-sizing that resource allocation to maintain a guest performance Service Level Objective efficiently is what many cloud users want. We'll present an overview of a VMware advanced development project that is exploring automatic horizontal and vertical scaling to maintain a guest SLO using heuristics and machine learning. We will also present about various data analysis projects in VMware focusing on problems including automated regex generation from unstructured logs, automatically generating min and max thresholds for timer series, capacity forecasting and root-cause analysis. A brief overview of the high-level problem and the research and product work being done to solve these problems will be provided.
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