Adaptable Resource Allocation in Cloud Computing Systems

Speaker:        Albert Y. Zomaya
                Professor and Director
                Centre for Distributed & High Performance Computing
                School of Information Technologies
                University of Sydney, Australia

Title:          "Adaptable Resource Allocation in Cloud Computing Systems"

Date:           Friday, 20 December 2013

Time:           2:00pm - 3:00pm

Venue:          Room 1504 (near lifts 25 & 26), HKUST

Abstract:

Cloud Computing is among the fastest growing topics in computing research
today. Although the idea of offering computational power as a service is
not novel, it did not publically become available before Clouds. Clouds
are fundamentally different from their predecessors (Grids/Clusters) and
thus require specific expertise to be properly utilized. Today, there are
literally hundreds of cloud providers in all forms and scales. Computing
needs (applications) have also become increasingly diverse. In this talk,
I will describe challenges with the dynamicity and heterogeneity of
resources and the diversity of applications from resource management
perspective. Then, I will discuss how we can turn these challenges into
opportunities for cloud systems' efficiency.


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Biography:

ALBERT Y. ZOMAYA is currently the Chair Professor of High Performance
Computing & Networking and Australian Research Council Professorial Fellow
in the School of Information Technologies, The University of Sydney. He is
also the Director of the Centre for Distributed and High Performance
Computing which was established in late 2009.

He is the author/co-author of seven books, more than 450 publications in
technical journals and conferences, and the editor of 14 books and 19
conference volumes. He is currently the Editor in Chief of the IEEE Trans.
on Computers and serves as an associate editor for 20 other journals, such
as, ACM Computing Surveys, IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing, and
Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing. He is the Founding Editor
of the Wiley Book Series on Parallel and Distributed Computing. Professor
Zomaya was the Chair the IEEE Technical Committee on Parallel Processing
(1999-2003) and currently serves on its executive committee. He also
serves on the advisory board of the IEEE Technical Committee on Scalable
Computing. Professor Zomaya has delivered more than 130 keynote addresses,
invited seminars, and media briefings and has been actively involved, in a
variety of capacities, in the organization of more than 600 national and
international conferences.

Professor Zomaya is a Fellow of the IEEE, a Fellow of the American
Association for the Advancement of Science, a Fellow of Institution of
Engineering and Technology (U.K.), a Distinguished Engineer of the ACM and
a Chartered Engineer (CEng). He received the 1997 Edgeworth David Medal
from the Royal Society of New South Wales for outstanding contributions to
Australian Science. He is also the recipient of the IEEE Computer
Society's Meritorious Service Award and Golden Core Recognition in 2000
and 2006, respectively. Also, he received the IEEE TCPP Outstanding
Service Award and the IEEE TCSC Medal for Excellence in Scalable
Computing, both in 2011. His research interests are in the areas of
parallel and distributed computing and complex systems.