Dr Pratap Pattnaik,
Senior Manager, Scalable Systems Group, IBM Research
Keynote
Keynote address on : Server Design for Tomorrow’s Data Center
Dr. Pratap Pattnaik is currently Senior Manager of the Scalable Systems group in the IBM Research Division. Over the past ten years, he and his team have developed a number of key technologies for IBM's high end Servers.
His current research work includes the development and design of computer systems, including system and processor hardware, operating systems and autonomic components for IBM’s UNIX and mainframe Servers. In the past he has worked in the field of parallel algorithms for Molecular Dynamics, solutions of linear systems, Quantum Monte Carlo and theory of High Temperature Superconductivity, communication subsystems, fault management subsystems, etc. He also has over ten years of research experience in various aspects of integrated circuit design and fabrication, silicon processing, and condensed matter theory.
Topic: Server Design for Tomorrow’s Data Center
Abstract:
The main driving forces behind the unprecedented integration of information technologies (IT) into the world economy are the globalization of the enterprises, and the desire for high programmer-productivity. The ability to yield high programmer-productivity stems partly from the development and deployment of containerized and composable software components, and partly from the significant advancements in VLSI technologies, systems architecture, network bandwidth, and disk storage capacity. These advancements are changing the architectures and the operations of the data centers, which in turn are causing significant changes in the designs of enterprise servers. This talk will elaborate on the factors driving the architectural changes in tomorrow’s data centers, and the key attributes of their designs, e,g, robustess, resiliency, virtualization, dynamic feedback, etc. We will present some of the server technchologies that are needed to provide these attributes of tomorrow’s data center, particularly the needs and ways to autonomically obtain high performance and robustness from the hardware and the operating systems.
Dr Umesh Dayal,
HP Fellow, Director, Intelligent Enterprise Technologies Lab, HP Labs, USA
Keynote
Keynote address on : Trends and Challenges in Enterprise-Scale Business Intelligence
Abstract: In today's competitive and highly dynamic environment, enterprises rely on business intelligence technologies (data integration, data warehousing, data mining, and analytics) to gain an understanding of how their business is performing, to predict outcomes and trends, and to optimize business processes. As the industry evolves towards the ideal of the "real-time enterprise", t he traditional off-line data warehousing, analysis, and reporting that characterize BI today are no longer adequate: users now demand easy-to-use, massively scalable, intelligent platforms and applications that can improve enterprise performance by better and timelier decision making, enabled by the availability of up-to-date, high quality information. There are many challenges in realizing this goal. These include the integration of real-time data feeds from operational data sources; the adaptive tuning and management of complex, mixed workloads; and the scaling of analytic operations. Futher, it is becoming increasingly important for enterprises to integrate data from non-traditional sources (unstructured data, live data feeds, Web data) into decision making, and this poses additional challenges. In this talk, we will describe some of these challenges and promising approaches to meeting them.
About the speaker
Umeshwar Dayal is HP Fellow and Co-Director of the Advanced Business Intelligence Lab at Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, Palo Alto, California. Umesh has nearly 30 years of research experience in data management. His current research interests are in enterprise-scale data warehousing and business intelligence, data mining, business process management, and decision support technologies. Prior to joining HP Labs, he was a senior researcher at DEC's Cambridge Research Lab, Chief Scientist at Xerox Advanced Information Technology and Computer Corporation of America, and on the faculty at the University of Texas-Austin. He has published over 150 papers and holds over 25 patents in the areas of database systems, transaction management, workflow systems, data mining, and information visualization. He is on the Editorial Board of several international journals, has edited two books, and has chaired and served on the Program Committees of numerous conferences. Most recently, he served as General Program Chair of VLDB 2006. ]He has been a member of the Board of the VLDB Endowment, a founding member of the Board of the International Foundation for Cooperative Information Systems, and a member of the Steering Committee of the SIAM Data Mining Conference. In 2001, Umesh and two co-authors received the VLDB 10-year Best Paper Award for their 1991 paper on a transactional model of long-running activities. He can be reached at umeshwar.dayal AT hp.com
Dr Peter Hofstee,
IBM Distinguished Engineer Chief Scientist for the Cell Broadband Engine
Keynote
Keynote : "Beyond multicore: Cell/B.E. and trends in heterogeneous computing."
The programming community is being confronted with an unprecedented degree of change in microprocessor architecture. Limited growth in single thread performance now requires nearly all applications on all platforms to pursue concurrency to achieve application performance increases. A next step is heterogeneous multicore. Driven by the need to further increase efficiencies and level of integration, CPU/GPU integration may soon be commonplace. Cell/B.E. can be seen as a forerunner of this trend. As a community we have to find the right programming paradigms to ensure portability of applications across this wide variety of processors. This talk will focus on the experiences with Cell/B.E. and place them in this broader context.
Peter Hofstee is an IBM Distinguished Engineer, and the Chief Scientist for the Cell Broadband Engine used in the PlayStation(R)3, IBM server blades and other computing platforms. Peter received his PhD from the California Institute of Technology in 1994 and spent the two years on the Caltech faculty. In 1996 Peter joined the IBM Austin Research Laboratory to work on high-performance microprocessors where he helped build the world's first GHz CMOS microprocessor in 1997. In 2000 Peter helped develop the concept for the Cell Broadband Engine and during its development acted as the chief architect of one of its key components; the Synergistic Processor Element of which there are 8 on Cell/B.E. . Peter is an IBM Master inventor with some 100 patents issued or in process and a member of the IBM Academy of Technology. He has published widely and is a frequent keynote speaker at technical conferences. Peter is currently focused on the broader use of Cell/B.E. and on concepts for a next generation of Cell processors.
Pradeep K. Khosla,
Dean, College of Engineering, and Director,
CyLab, CMU, USA
Title: CyberSecurity: Opportunities and Challenges
Abstract
This talk will address the current state of cybersecurity and argue that
this is one of the fields that requires an integration of technologies from
various disciplines to create a solution. We will describe some results
from the areas of software attestation, biometrics, packet tracing and
bring these all together to show how no single technology can result in
security but rather an integration of several technologies may offer the
opportunity to create a solution. The talk will be motivated by several
questions, such as, why can we not reduce spam, etc. In addition, the talk
will make the case that cybersecurity is one of the few areas that require
technology, policy, business, and legal issues to be addressed
simultaneously in order to be effective.
Speaker Bio
Pradeep Khosla is currently the Dean of the College of Engineering and
Founding Director of CyLab. CyLab is a university wide effort that
involves 30 faculty and 100 PhD students and the research portfolio in
CyLab spans technology, policy, and business issues.
Prior to occupying his current position, Dr. Khosla served as the Head of
Electrical and Computer Engineering and Director of the Information
Networking Institute. He is the recipient of several awards including the
McDowell award from IEEE Computer Society, the George Westinghouse award
for education from ASEE, and the Cybersecurity education award from the
Business Software Alliance. Dr. Khosla is a Fellow of IEEE, AAAI, and AAAS
and was elected as member of the National Academy of Engineering for his
contributions to research and education.
Dr. Khosla serves on the advisory boards of several universities, and
venture capital funds. He is a member of the board of Directors of the
Pittsburgh Technology Council, The Childrens Institute, and Quantapoint Inc.
