eSI Visitor Seminar: "Addressing Complexity in Emerging Cyber-Ecosystems – Experiments with Autonomic Computational Science" by Manish Parashar

13 January, 2010 04:00 PM - 05:00 PM

e-Science Institute, 15 South College Street, Edinburgh

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Professor Manish Parashar Electrical and Computer Engineering Rutgers University The e-Science Institute is delighted to host a seminar with Professor Manish Parashar. The seminar is open to all interested parties in academia and industry. There is no need to register for this event and those attending the seminar are invited to join us for tea and coffee at . This Seminar is scheduled to be webcast live. For further information see below.

Professor Manish Parashar

Abstract

Significant strategic investments are quickly realizing a pervasive computational cyberinfrastructure that integrates large-scale computing, high-speed networks, massive data archives, instruments, observatories, experiments, and embedded sensors and actuators, and to catalyze new thinking, paradigms and practices in computational science and engineering - those that are collaborative and information/data-driven. However the ability of scientists to realize this potential is being severely hampered by the complexity of the applications and infrastructure, which together present unprecedented development, configuration and management challenges. Autonomic computing has the potential to fundamentally address these challenges. The goal of autonomic computing is to design and engineer systems and applications that are capable of managing themselves, adapting their resources and operations to workloads and execution context, and anticipating needs, all with minimal involvement of users. In this talk I will explore the role of autonomics in computational science and engineering. I will then describe research efforts, as part of the e-Science Institute Research Theme on Distributed Programming Abstractions, aimed at enabling autonomic scientific and engineering applications that can address the challenges of (and benefit from) pervasive cyber-ecosystems.

Biography

Manish Parashar is Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Rutgers University, and is also co-director of the NSF Center for Autonomic Computing. He is affiliated with CAIP, WINLAB, CBIMand IMCS, and holds a joint research appointment with the Center for Subsurface Modeling,  The University of Texas at Austin , and current holds visiting postions at the eScience Institute at Edinburgh, UK and the Laboratoire d’InfoRmatique en Images et Systemes d’information (LIRIS) , Lyon France. He has been a visiting fellow at the Department of Computer Science and DOE ASCI/ASAP  Center, California Institute of Technology, at the DOE ASCI/ASAP FLASH Center, University of Chicago, and at the Max-Plank Institute in Potsdam , Germany . His research interests are in the broad area of parallel and distributed computing and include pervasive computational systems, autonomic computing, Grid peer-to-peer computing, scientific computing and software engineering. A key focus of his current research is on solving scientific and engineering problems on very large systems and the integration of physical and computational systems.

Webcast

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