A New Era after the Convergence of Network Centric and Data Centric Computing

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

Title:		"A New Era after the Convergence of Network Centric and
		 Data Centric Computing"

Date:		Monday, 3 May 2010

Time:		4:00pm - 5:00pm

Venue:		Lecture Theater F (near lifts 25/26) HKUST

Abstract:

The Internet today has grown to an enormously large scale. Devices large
and small are connected globally from anywhere on the earth.  Therefore,
we can argue that we are in a network centric era. With the rapid
advancement of technology, we now also have cheap and small devices with
high computing power and large storage capacity.  These devices are
designed to improve our daily life by monitoring our environment,
collecting critical data, and executing special instructions. These
devices have gradually become an essential part of our Internet.  Many
imaging, audio and video data are converted from analog to digital. As a
result, unprecedented amount of data are collected by these devices and
are available via Internet. How to manage and look for the desired
information becomes a great challenge.  Therefore, we can certainly also
say that we are in a data centric era. In this talk, we will examine the
challenges in the convergence of both network centric and data centric
computing. At the same time, many emerging applications like
service-oriented, security and real-time demand much better support than
the current Internet can offer. To meet these challenges, US National
Science Foundation also has started a major effort, called GENI (Global
Environment for Networking Innovations) to resign the Internet from
scratch. However, how the future Internet should look like is still
undetermined.  In this talk, we will present a vision of content
addressable future Internet. What are the essential changes in data
representation, information retrieval, storage systems and networking
design will be discussed.  We believe an object-oriented intelligent
storage is an essential part of the solution to this new computing and
communication environment. We will also present a number of research
projects that are currently under investigation in our Intelligent Storage
Consortium. These projects include data deduplication, long-term data
preservation, data center power management, and solid state drives.


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Biography:

Dr. David Du is currently the Qwest Chair Professor of Computer Science
and Engineering at University of Minnesota, Minneapolis. He has served as
a Program Director (IPA) at National Science Foundation CISE/CNS Division
from March 2006 to September 2008. At NSF, he was responsible for NeTS
(networking research cluster) NOSS (Networks of Sensor Systems) Program
and worked with two other colleagues, Karl Levitt and Ralph Wachter, on
Cyber Trust Program. He is also the Director of a newly funded NSF I/UCRC
Center on Intelligent Storage. Dr. Du received a Ph.D. degree from
University of Washington (Seattle) in 1981. He joined University of
Minnesota as a faculty since 1981.

Dr. Du has a wide range of research expertise including multimedia
computing, mass storage systems, high-speed networking, sensor networks,
cyber security, high-performance file systems and I/O, database design,
and CAD for VLSI circuits. He has authored and co-authored over 210
technical papers including 100 referred journal publications in these
research areas.  He has graduated 50 Ph.D. and 80 M.S. students in the
last 30 years.  Dr. Du is an IEEE Fellow (since 1998) and a Fellow of the
Minnesota Supercomputer Institute.  He is currently serving on the
Editorial Boards of several international journals. He has also served as
Conference Chair and Program Committee Chair for several major conferences
in multimedia, networking, database and security areas. Currently he is
the General Chair of the 30th IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy
(2009) and Program Committee Co-Chair for the 37th International
Conference on Parallel Processing (2009). He has had research grants from
many federal funding agencies including NSF, DARPA, ONR, and DOE. He has a
strong tie with many industrial researchers and has collaborated with a
number of companies including IBM, Intel, Cisco, Symantec, Seagate, Sun
Microsystems, Honeywell, etc.