The Challenge is defined in terms of minimum requirements and additional desirable features that submissions should exhibit. The minimum requirements and the additional desirable features are listed below per track.
Data-Intensive Analytics Track
Data-Intensive Analytics track focuses on problems where data are the primary challenge (e.g. size, rate of change, complexity) and they are processed into a form that provides assistance to the user (e.g. decision making, forecasting, situation awareness).
The specific goal of the Data-Intensive Analytics Track is to demonstrate the scalability of applications as well as the capability to deal with the specifics of large datasets. We stress that the goal of this is not to be a benchmarking effort between cloud platforms, but rather to demonstrate applications that can work on scale using realistic data.
Minimal requirements
Additional Desirable Features
In addition to the above minimum requirements, other features are desirable and will be evaluated in the submissions.
The specific goal of the Data-Intensive Analytics Track is to demonstrate the scalability of applications as well as the capability to deal with the specifics of large datasets. We stress that the goal of this is not to be a benchmarking effort between cloud platforms, but rather to demonstrate applications that can work on scale using realistic data.
Minimal requirements
- The data has to be the primary challenge. The size of the dataset is left open. However, the submitter has to provide information about their size.
- The functionality of the application is left open, however it has to provide some practical assistance to the user.
- The application has to do more than simply store/retrieve data.
- The tool or application does not have to be specifically an end-user application, as defined in the Open Track, but usability is a concern. The key goal is to demonstrate an interaction with a large dataset driven by a user or an application.
Additional Desirable Features
In addition to the above minimum requirements, other features are desirable and will be evaluated in the submissions.
- The application should either function in real-time or, if pre-computation is needed, has a real-time realization (but we will take a wide view of "real time" depending on the scale of what is done).
Open Track
Minimal Requirements
Additional Desirable Features
In addition to the above minimum requirements, we note other desirable features that will be used as criteria to evaluate submissions.
- The application has to be an end-user application, i.e. an application that provides a practical value to general users.
- The information sources used should contain substantial quantities of real world data (i.e. not toy examples).
- The scalability of the application has to play a central role.
- Data must be stored and processed using a cloud platform.
Additional Desirable Features
In addition to the above minimum requirements, we note other desirable features that will be used as criteria to evaluate submissions.
- The application provides an attractive and functional Web or Mobile interface (for human users).
- The application interface should be platform independent.
- Rigorous evaluations should have been taken to demonstrate the benefits of cloud computing technologies, or validate the obtained results.
- Innovative application of a cloud computing technology to a domain or a task that has not been considered before.
In case of small number of submissions tracks can be merged into 1. Less than 3 submissions awards can be cancelled.