KEYNOTE

Title:

New Frontiers in Cloud and Edge/Fog Computing for Big Data & Internet-of-Things Applications

Speaker:

Prof. Rajkumar Buyya
Director, Cloud Computing and Distributed Systems (CLOUDS) Lab,
The University of Melbourne, Australia

CEO, Manjrasoft Pvt Ltd, Melbourne, Australia

ABSTRACT

Computing is being transformed to a model consisting of services that are commoditised and delivered in a manner similar to utilities such as water, electricity, gas, and telephony. Several computing paradigms have promised to deliver this utility computing vision. Cloud computing
paradigm has turned this vision of "computing utilities" into a reality. It offers infrastructure, platform, and software (application) as services, which are made available as subscription-based services in a pay-as-you-go model to consumers. Cloud application platforms need to offer (1) APIs and tools for rapid creation of elastic applications and (2) a runtime system for deployment of applications on geographically distributed computing infrastructure in a seamless manner.

The Internet of Things (IoT) paradigm enables seamless integration of cyber-and-physical worlds and opening up opportunities for creating new class of applications for domains such as smart cities. The emerging Fog computing paradigm is extends Cloud computing model to edge resources for latency sensitive IoT applications.

This keynote presentation will cover (a) 21st century vision of computing and identifies various IT paradigms promising to deliver the vision of computing utilities; (b) innovative architecture
for creating elastic Clouds integrating edge resources and managed Clouds, (c) Aneka, a Cloud Application Platform, for rapid development of Cloud/Big Data applications and their deployment on private/public Clouds with resource provisioning driven by SLAs, (d) a novel FogBus software framework with Blockchain-based data-integrity management for facilitating end-to-end IoT-Fog(Edge)-Cloud integration for execution of sensitive IoT applications, (e) experimental results on deploying Cloud and Big Data/Internet-of-Things (IoT) applications in engineering, and health care, satellite image processing, and smart cities on elastic Clouds; and (f) directions for delivering our 21st century vision along with pathways for future research in Cloud and Edge/Fog computing.

SPEAKER BIOGRAPHY AND PHOTO

Dr. Rajkumar Buyya is a Redmond Barry Distinguished Professor and Director of the Cloud Computing and Distributed Systems (CLOUDS) Laboratory at the University of Melbourne, Australia. He is also serving as the founding CEO of Manjrasoft, a spin-off company of the University, commercializing its innovations in Cloud Computing. He has authored over
650 publications and seven text books including "Mastering Cloud Computing" published by McGraw Hill, China Machine Press, and Morgan Kaufmann for Indian, Chinese and international markets respectively. Dr. Buyya is one of the highly cited authors in computer science and software engineering worldwide (h-index=127, g-index=275, 84,300+ citations).  "A Scientometric Analysis of Cloud Computing Literature" by German scientists ranked Dr. Buyya as the World's Top-Cited (#1) Author and the World's Most-Productive (#1) Author in Cloud Computing. He is named in the recent Clarivate Analytics’ (formerly Thomson Reuters) Highly Cited Researchers and “World's Most Influential Scientific Minds” for three consecutive years since 2016. Dr. Buyya is recognized as Scopus Researcher of the Year 2017 with Excellence in Innovative Research Award by Elsevier and recently received "Lifetime Achievement Awards" from two Indian universities for his outstanding contributions to Cloud computing and distributed systems.

Software technologies for Grid, Cloud, and Fog computing developed under Dr.Buyya's leadership have gained rapid acceptance and are in use at several academic institutions and commercial enterprises in 40 countries around the world. Dr. Buyya has led the establishment and development of key community activities, including serving as foundation Chair of the IEEE Technical Committee on Scalable Computing and five IEEE/ACM conferences. These contributions and international research leadership of Dr. Buyya are recognized through the award of "2009 IEEE Medal for Excellence in Scalable Computing" from the IEEE Computer Society TCSC. Manjrasoft's Aneka Cloud technology developed under his leadership has received "Frost & Sullivan New Product Innovation Award". He served as founding Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing. He is currently serving as Editor-in-Chief of Software: Practice and Experience, a long standing journal in the field established ~50 years ago. For further information on Dr.Buyya, please visit his cyberhome: www.buyya.com

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KEYNOTE

Title:

Any Growth is Bounded - On the Future of Performance Scaling

SPEAKER:

Prof. Holger Fröning

Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science at the Ruprecht-Karls University of Heidelberg (Germany)

Abstract:

The end of Moore's law has been predicted for many years, in combinations with statements about exaggerations of its end. However, we are currently observing a phase of substantial slow-down in key metrics associated with silicon device manufacturing, and, as a result, huge issues with sustained performance scaling. In this talk, we will review the most important recent and current trends in computer architecture, in particular in the light of diminishing returns from feature size scaling. Ultimately, we will see that energy efficiency is and will be key for a continuous performance scaling, and explore a couple of promising ideas in this context. The talk will conclude with a couple of anticipated directions, both for researchers but also practitioners.

Bio: Holger Fröning is a full professor at the Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science at the Ruprecht-Karls University of Heidelberg (Germany), and leads the Computer Engineering Group at the Institute of Computer Engineering. His research interests focus on machine learning and high-performance computing, and include hardware and software architectures, programmability, co-design, data movement optimizations, and associated power and energy aspects. Previously, he was associate professor at the same university. In 2016, he was with NVIDIA Research (Santa Clara, CA, US) as visiting scientist, sponsored by Bill Dally. Early 2015 he was visiting professor at the Graz University of Technology (Austria), sponsored by Gernot Kubin. From 2008 to 2011 he reported to Jose Duato from the Technical University of Valencia (Spain). He has received his PhD and MSc degrees 2007 respectively 2001 from the University of Mannheim, Germany. He was awarded a Google Faculty Research Award in 2014. Four of his publications have received a best paper award, and parts of his research results have been commercialized. He chaired tracks for EuroPar 2015 and International Supercomputer Conference 2017, and recently served as program committee member for IPDPS2019/18, CCGRID2019/18, SC2017, ICPP2020/19/18/17/16, CLUSTER2018/16, and Euro-Par2019. His recent sponsors include BMBF, DFG, FWF, NVIDIA, SAP, and Xilinx. For more information, visit his website: http://www.ziti.uni-heidelberg.de/compeng