13th January 2010 4 p.m. Newhaven Lecture Theatre, e-Science Institute, 15 South College Street, Edinburgh
eSI Visitor Seminar: Addressing Complexity in Emerging Cyber-Ecosystems - experiments with autonomic computational science
Professor Manish Parashar
Electrical and Computer Engineering, Rutgers University
- Web page
- http://www.nesc.ac.uk/esi/events/1043/
- Submitter
- Deborah Guy
Prof Manish Parashar
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.
There is no need to register for this event and those attending the lecture are invited to join us for tea and coffee at 17:00.
This lecture will be available via web cast.