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Speaker:        Professor David H.C. Du
                Computer Science and Engineering Department
                University of Minnesota, Minneapolis

Title:          "The Researfch Trend in Scalable Servers and Storage
                 Systems"

Date:           Thursday, June 20, 2002

Time:           11:00 am to 12 noon

Venue:          Room 2303
                (Phase I, via lift nos. 17/18)
                HKUST

Abstract:

Due to a number of fast growing applications like streaming video, data
mining, and scientific visualization, the demand for larger and faster
storage systems has been dramatically increased.  In this talk I will
present our past and current research activities that are related to
scalable servers and storage systems. We have taken a fully vertically
integrated approach to carry out our research. From applications to
scalable servers, we have focused on using PC/Workstation clusters and
InfiniBand based servers to support streaming video, data mining and
scientific visualization. From servers to network attached storage and
storage area networks, we have focused on the performance and usage of
FC-AL, SSA and iSCSI (SCSI over Internet). Our goal is to design and
develop storage systems that can take advantages of the newly developed
technologies including active disks, object storage devices, disk-based
XOR, iSCSI and silicon-based TCP/IP offload engine. I intend to give a
high-level overview of our effort in these subjects.


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Biography:

David H.C. Du - received the B.S. degree in mathematics from National
Tsing-Hua University, Taiwan, R.O.C. in 1974, and the M.S. and Ph.D.
degrees in computer science from the University of Washington, Seattle, in
1980 and 1981, respectively.  He is currently a Professor at the Computer
Science and Engineering Department, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis.
His research interests include multimedia computing, storage systems,
high-speed networking, high-performance computing over clusters of
workstations, database design and CAD for VLSI circuits. He has authored
and co-authored more than 150 technical papers, including 75 referred
journal publications in his research areas.  Dr. Du is an IEEE Fellow and
was an Editor of IEEE Transactions on Computers from 1993 to 1997. He is
currently served on the editorial board of Journal of Cluster Computing
and Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing Practices. He has also
served as guest editors for a number of journals including IEEE Computer,
IEEE and Communications of ACM. He has also served as Conference Chair and
Program Committee Chair to several conferences in multimedia and database
areas.


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