From Supercomputing to Cluster Computing to Grid Computing to Cloud Computing─Challenges and Solutions

From Supercomputing to Cluster Computing to Grid Computing to Cloud Computing─Challenges and Solutions

时间：2010年11月4日 地点：九龙湖校区计算机楼301室

报告简介：

Cloud computing has emerged rapidly as a growing paradigm of on-demand access to computing, data and software utilities using a usage-based billing model. Users essentially rent resources and pay for what they use and everything including software, platform, and infrastructure is as a service. Cloud computing overlaps some of the concepts of cluster, distributed, grid, service, ubiquitous, utility and virtual computing; However it outgrows from these computing domains and has its own meaning now. Many mature technologies used in other computing models are also employed as components in cloud computing. Clearly, there are still many unresolved and open problems due to its unique characteristics which are different from supercomputing, cluster computing, grid computing, utility computing and service computing. In this talk, I will give a review of supercomputing, cluster computing, grid computing and cloud computing. Since the first supercomputer was developed 40 years ago, there have been many technological changes and many programming models developed. Hence, a review of technologies and approaches used in supercomputing, cluster computing, grid computing will be helpful for us to identify issues and approaches in cloud computing. Comparisons of these computing domains, their limitations and potential solutions will be included in this talk.

报告人简介：

Yi Pan is the chair and a professor in the Department of Computer Science and a professor in the Department of Computer Information Systems at Georgia State University. Dr. Pan received his B.Eng. and M.Eng. degrees in computer engineering from Tsinghua University, China, in 1982 and 1984, respectively, and his Ph.D. degree in computer science from the University of Pittsburgh, USA, in 1991. He is also a guest professor of many universities including Tsinghua University and Beijing University. Dr. Pan's research interests include parallel and distributed computing, optical networks, wireless networks, and bioinformatics. Dr. Pan has published more than 100 journal papers with 40 papers published in various IEEE journals. In addition, he has published over 100 papers in refereed conferences (including IPDPS, ICPP, ICDCS, INFOCOM, and GLOBECOM). He has also co-authored/co-edited 34 books (including proceedings) and contributed several book chapters. His pioneer work on computing using reconfigurable optical buses has inspired extensive subsequent work by many researchers, and his research results have been cited by more than 100 researchers worldwide in books, theses, journal and conference papers. He is a co-inventor of three U.S. patents (pending) and 5 provisional patents, and has received many awards from agencies such as NSF, AFOSR, JSPS, IISF and Mellon Foundation. His recent research has been supported by NSF, NIH, NSFC, AFOSR, AFRL, JSPS, IISF and the states of Georgia and Ohio. He has served as a reviewer/panelist for many research foundations/agencies such as the U.S. National Science Foundation, the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, the Australian Research Council, and the Hong Kong Research Grants Council. Dr. Pan has served as an editor-in-chief or editorial board member for 15 journals including 5 IEEE Transactions and a guest editor for 10 special issues for 9 journals including 2 IEEE Transactions. He has organized several international conferences and workshops and has also served as a program committee member for several major international conferences such as INFOCOM, GLOBECOM, ICC, IPDPS, and ICPP. Dr. Pan has delivered over many keynote speeches at international conferences. Dr. Pan is an IEEE Distinguished Speaker (2000-2002), a Yamacraw Distinguished Speaker (2002), a Shell Oil Colloquium Speaker (2002), and a senior member of IEEE. He is listed in Men of Achievement, Who's Who in Midwest, Who's Who in America, Who's Who in American Education, Who's Who in Computational Science and Engineering, and Who's Who of Asian Americans.

计算机网络和信息集成教育部重点实验室（东南大学）