Keynote Speaker:
Jon Weissman
University of Minnesota, USA
Email: jon :: cs-umn-edu
Title: Clouds@Grid
In this talk, we explore two opportunities for uniting the emerging cloud computing paradigms with volunteer PCGrids. In the first, we describe how a proxy network comprised of volunteer nodes can accelerate applications spanning one or more clouds. In the second, we describe how several classes of cloud applications might be better suited to an on-demand cloud comprised of distributed volunteer resources, versus the alternative of a monetized commercial cloud. The talk will focus on the big-picture challenges needed to realize these two visions of Cloud@Grid computing, and possible solutions to these challenges, including progress we have made within our own research group.
Bio:
Jon Weissman is a leading researcher in the area of high
performance
distributed computing. His involvement dates back to the
influential
Legion project at the University of Virginia during his
Ph.D. He is
currently an Associate Professor of Computer Science at the
University
of Minnesota where he leads the Distributed Computing
Systems Group.
His current research interests are in Grid computing,
distributed
systems, high performance computing, resource management,
reliability,
and e-science applications. He works primarily at the
boundary between
applications and systems. He received his B.S. degree from
Carnegie-Mellon University in 1984, and his M.S. and
Ph.D. degrees
from the University of Virginia in 1989 and 1995,
respectively, all in
computer science. He is a senior member of the IEEE and
awardee of the
NSF CAREER Award (1995).