Tenfold Acceleration of Office/Database/Web/Media Applications over the WAN/Grid

Speaker:	Professor Frank WANG
		Chair in e-Science and Grid Computing
		Director of Centre for Grid Computing
		Cambridge-Cranfield High Performance
		Computing Facility (CCHPCF)
		United Kingdom

Title:		"Tenfold Acceleration of Office/Database/Web/Media
		Applications over the WAN/Grid"

Date:		Thursday, 26 July 2007

Time:		11:00am - 12 noon

Venue:		Lecture Theatre F
		(Leung Yat Sing Lecture Theatre, near lift nos. 25/26,)
		HKUST

Abstract:

Prof Wang and his group have developed a grid-enabled data communication
protocol, which beats classic ones by a factor of 25 over a real-world
link of 10,000 km. This protocol is the first of its kind worldwide. As
one of the highlighted milestones of the roadmap, they are drafting a RFC
(Requests for Comments), in an attempt to make it and its variations to be
included in the Internet Protocol suite. Best of all, this protocol
requires no changes in the way users work with their applications since it
conforms the existing IT infrastructures. During his presentation, he is
going to show a demo of using this protocol to accelerate applications,
ranging from Office, Database, Web Browser to Media Player. Prof Wang has
recently fostered collaborations with IBM (accelerating IBM DB2), Xerox
(accelerating Xerox Docushare software), CERN, HP, BBC, Rolls Royce, etc.


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Biography:

Prof. Frank Wang is a Fellow of British Computer Society, Professor and
Chair in e-Science and Grid Computing, Director of Centre for Grid
Computing within the context of Cambridge-Cranfield High Performance
Computing Facility (CCHPCF) [http://www.hpcf.cam.ac.uk/research.html].
Prof Wang's appointment is seen as crucial to the initiative of the
CCHPCF, which is a collaborative research facility in the Universities of
Cambridge and Cranfield. Prof Wang has a publication record including a
book titled "Encyclopedia of Grid Computing", 61 journal papers [12 IEEE
Transactions, 5 JAP, 1 APL, 3 ACM publications, etc] and 37 conference
papers. Prof Wang is on the Editorial Board of four international
journals. He serves the High End Computing Panel for Science Foundation
Ireland (SFI). He has been elected as the Chairman (UK & Republic of
Ireland Chapter) of the IEEE Computer Society from January 2005. Prof.
Wang's latest journal paper is Grid-Oriented Storage (GOS) on IEEE
Transactions on Computers, April 2007. Since January 2007, the GOS
invention led to invitations to present talks at Princeton University,
Cambridge University (Computer Lab), Rolls Royce, BBC, Xerox, Carnegie
Mellon University, CERN, etc.