| Grid
Computing Seminar Series for the Layman
Grid
is Good : Unleashing Grid Computing to Power Business,
Education
& Life
From Grid to Pervasive Computing : Where is the breakthrough
of next IT boom ?
Prof. Xian-He Sun
Department of Computer Science
Illinois Institute of Technology, USA
8
June 2006 (Thursday)
1900 hours @ National Library Board
Visitors' Briefing Room, Level 1
100 Victoria Street
Singapore 188064
Abstract
After
the recent IT bubble, what is the trigger point of next
IT boom? In addition to making computing
devices ever smaller and faster, what can the IT industry
offer to its users? Technology advances tell us the so-called
IT era is not yet over. Scientists are cumulating knowledge
and building the technical foundations for the next IP boom.
New disciplines of computing are emerging. In this talk,
we introduce two new concepts of computing: Grid Computing
and Pervasive Computing. Grid computing mimics electrical
power grid by bringing remote computing power to the users.
Pervasive computing emphasizes anywhere, anytime services
and `human-centered’ view of computing. It forms the
`smart space’ in which IT service naturally available
as the air we breathe. In additional to the general introductions,
we also will discuss the current technical issues and challenges
of both grid and pervasive computing and their implication
in providing the next generation `must have’ IT services.
Biodata
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Xian-He
Sun is a professor of computer science and the director
of the Scalable Computing Software laboratory
at Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT), a guest faculty
in the Mathematics and Computer Science Division at the
Argonne National Laboratory, and a visiting scientist of
the Fermi National Laboratory.. Before joining IIT, he
worked at DoE Ames National Laboratory, at ICASE, NASA
Langley Research Center, was a professor of the Louisiana
State University – Baton Rouge, and was an ASEE fellow
at Navy Research Laboratories. Dr. Sun's research interests
include parallel and distributed processing, software systems,
pervasive computing, and scientific computing.
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He received the ONR and ASEE Certificate of Recognition award
in 1999, the Best Paper Award from the International Conference
on Parallel Processing (ICPP01) in 2001, and the Best Poster
Award at IEEE International SuperComputing Conference in 2003.
An IETF Internet standard (RFC--RFC3910) was released in 2004
based on his novel concept of cross-network service.
Registration
Admission
is Free. All
are Welcome.
Please click here to
register by 1200 hours on 8 June 2006.
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