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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
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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.
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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.
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