Keynote Speakers 

Kai Huang

Research Challenges in Cloud Computing, Many-Core and The Internet of Things

Abstract:

In this talk, Dr. Hwang will address several research frontiers for
exploiting massive parallelism in many-core GPU clusters, effective data protection in Internet clouds, and innovative applications on the clouds, datacenters, and the Internet of things (IoT). He will address the issues of ubiquity and mobility, performance scalability, energy-efficiency, and system-availability in both HPC (high-performance computing) and HTC (high-throughput computing) systems.  He will assess the roles of many-core, virtualization, sensing and tracking technologies in Internet clouds and IoT development. 

    Dr. Hwang will review the success stories of the fastest supercomputers  (Tianhe-1A and Jaguar),  present new cloud security infrastructure, and discuss privacy protection issues in  social networks.  Based on recent advances in these areas, he will address the research challenges with illustrated examples on scientific discovery over Peta- or Exa-scale supercomputers, upgrading business and web services with public clouds over virtualized datacenters, protecting social networking with privacy control,  and promoting ubiquitous applications over the emerging Internet of things.

 

Biographical Sketch:

Kai Hwang is a Professor of EE/CS at the University of Southern California. He is also an IV-endowed chair professor at Tsinghua University in China. He received the Ph.D. from UC Berkeley in 1972. He has published 8 books and over 220 scientific papers in computer architecture, parallel processing, distributed systems, cloud computing, network security, and Internet applications. His work has been cited more than 9,000 times with an h-index of 40 and a g-index of 93. Hwang's latest book: Distributed and Cloud Computing: Clusters, Grids, Clouds and The Internet of Things   (with G. Fox and J. Dongarra) is being published by Morgan Kaufmann in 2011.

Dr. Hwang was awarded an IEEE Fellow grade by IEEE Computer Society in 1986, and received the 2004 Outstanding Achievement Award from China Computer Federation. He has served as the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing and delivered over three dozens of keynote addresses in major IEEE/ACM Conferences. Hwang has performed advisory, consulting and collaborative work for IBM, Intel, ETL in Japan, GMD in Germany, INRIA in France, MIT Lincoln Lab, JPL at Caltech, and Chinese Academy of Sciences. He can be reached via Email:  kaihwang@usc.edu 

 

 

IC Cloud : From Theory to Practice

Abstract:

We have built the IC Cloud as a compositional cloud to efficiently organise the campus resource into a powerful  IaaS infrastructure.  IC Cloud is designed by combining technologies and best practices in Grid computing and Cloud computing to establish a scalable IaaS infrastructure with the full functionality of serving as a private as well as public cloud. In this talk, we review the design principle, research subjects as well as the current implementation of the IC Cloud. IC Cloud has been used successfully in various EU research projects for healthcare and life science research, as well as in UK digital city research projects. It has also be adopted in China by commercial vendors to provide public cloud  services.  The future road map will be reveal to build the IC Cloud into a practical system for large scale deployment  in China and Europe.  

 

Biographical Sketch:

Dr. Yike Guo is a professor in computing science in the Department of Computing, Imperial College London. His research is in the areas of large scale scientific data analysis , data mining algorithms and applications, parallel algorithms and cloud computing. He graduated in Computer Science from Tsinghua University of China and has a PhD in Computational Logic and Declarative Programming at Imperial College London. During his PhD study, he was one of the founding members of the field studying uniform declarative programming by integrating functional and logic programming languages. Later, his work on functional coordination forms established a foundation for structured parallel programming. Dr. Yike Guo has been working in the area of data intensive analytical computing since 1995 when he was the Technical Director of Imperial College Parallel Computing Centre. During last 10 years, he has been leading the data mining group of the department to carry out many research projects, including some major UK e-science projects such as: Discovery Net on Grid based data analysis for scientific discovery; MESSAGE on Wireless mobile sensor network for environment monitoring; BAIR on System biology for diabetes study. He has been focusing on applying data mining technology to scientific data analysis in the fields of life science and healthcare, environment science and security. He is the Principal Investigator of the Discovery Science Platform grant from UK EPSRC and he is also the Founder and Chief Technical Officer of InforSense Limited , an Imperial College spin-out company on enterprise platform for business and scientific intelligence.

 

Semantic P2P Networks:  Potential Solution for Large Scale Cloud Computing Networks

Abstract

When more and more nodes and users are connected in the Internet in the cases of Cloud computing, centralized computing modes will be failed with the limit band width and privacies. However, distributed networks will encounter the transparency problems.    

This talk introduces a semantic P2P Network-- Virtual Hierarchical Tree Gird Organizations (VIRGO), which can solve the Cloud computing problems of transparency, scalability, and security. Other than unstructured and DHT-based structured P2P networks,   the nodes of VIRGO are identified as domain names classified by the semantic meaning of roles in the organizations.  VIRGO is easy to implement transparency as it has a simple global name schema.  It also is scalable with log (N). Due to the data are stored in the users' own computers, VIRGO is easy to keep data privacies.

 

Biographical Sketch:

Prof. Huang works on challenges about Cloud Computing and P2P computing. He has worked on e-Science and Grid computing since the beginning of 2000’s. He was honored in Marquis Who’s Who in the World 2006, Marquis Who’s Who in the Science and Engineering 2006-2007, and  Marquis Who’s Who in Asia 2006-2007 due to his achievement of proposing Virtual and Dynamic Hierarchical Architecture for e-Science and Grid and VIRGO protocols. He serves as program committee member of many international conferences. He has contributed over 100 technical papers to various conferences and refereed journals.

Prof. Huang now is a Director of Network & Distributed Computing at Zhejiang Sci-Tech University (ZSTU). Prior to joining ZSTU, Prof. Huang worked as a Senior Research Associate in the School of Computer Science at Cardiff University since 2004. Before working at Cardiff University, he developed many large software systems in several companies, as technical leader or department manager. He obtained his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Zhejiang University in 2003, Bachelor's From Nanchang University in 1982, and Master's from Hangzhou University in 1984.