Construct System Software for Big-data Computation

Speaker:	Dr. Lin GU
		Department of Computer Science & Engineering
		Hong Kong University of Science & Technology

Title:		"Construct System Software for Big-data Computation"

Date:		Monday, 13 May 2013

Time:		4:00pm - 5:00pm

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

Abstract:

It has been widely speculated that “big data” will be an important 
development in the years to come. However, computing technology is not yet 
ready for conducting complex computation on petabytes of data at an easily 
affordable cost. Overcoming this challenge requires sophisticated system 
design and, very likely, significant innovations at several layers of the 
technological hierarchy. In this talk, we will first briefly review what 
big-data computation is, why it is important, and how the current 
technologies tackle the problem. Then we will introduce a new C-like 
programming language we have developed for large-scale distributed 
computation and compare its performance with MapReduce/Hadoop, which is 
the most widely accepted cloud and big-data computing technology today. 
Finally, we argue that a fine cloud computing system we should envision to 
build a few years from now should be able to conduct non-trivial 
computation on one petabyte data within one second.

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Biography:

Lin Gu is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Computer Science and 
Engineering at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST). 
He received B.S. from Fudan University, M.S. from Peking University, and 
Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Virginia. His research 
interest includes cloud computing, operating systems, computer networks, 
and wireless sensor networks. His research has led to the development of 
several innovative systems, including Virtk (a.k.a. t-kernel), the 
Extended VigilNet, and CCMR, and attracted funding from leading industrial 
firms including Huawei Technologies and Microsoft. He participated in 
organizational and referee services in more than fifty academic 
conferences and journals.