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

Speaker:        Professor Kai Hwang
                University of Southern California
                USA

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

Date:           Tuesday, 27 September 2011

Time:           4:00pm - 5:00pm

Venue:          1511 (near lifts 27/28), HKUST

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.


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Biography:

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: