Computer Science Department Events
There will be a Colloquium on Friday February 24 at 10:00 AM by David Hung-Chang Du
FRIDAY FEBRUARY 24 E&CS Building Auditorium 1st FloorTIME: 10:00 AMTITLE: A New Era for the Convergence of Network Centric and Data Centric ComputingSPEAKER: David Hung-Chang Du
Qwest Chair Professor of Computer Science and Engineering
University of Minnesota, MinneapolisAbstract:
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 a dominant part of our Internet. Many imaging, audio and video data are converted from analog to digital and digital data are generated at an alarming rate. As a result, unprecedented amount of data are available. How to manage and look for the desired information becomes a great challenge. How to preserve these data becomes a crisis. 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. 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 NSF I/UCRC Center on Intelligent Storage. These projects include data deduplication, long-term data preservation, data center power management, and flash memory based solid state drives.
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