Kai Hwang. University of Southern California, Los Angeles. Abstract: This
keynote describes the evolution of massively distributed computing systems and
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KEYNOTE I Massively Distributed Systems : From Grids and P2P to Clouds Kai Hwang University of Southern California, Los Angeles Abstract: This keynote describes the evolution of massively distributed computing systems and their key techniques. Clusters of computers now prevail, expand, and become the core components in large-scale computational/information/data Grids. The Open Grid Service Architecture, specifying the Grid software, protocol, and service standards, are only partially implemented in Globus and other Grid toolkits. Grid security demand globalization among various PKI authorities and interoperability between wired and wireless networks. Very little progress being made in special networks, hardware, languages, and operating systems for Grid/Cloud computing. Business Grids/Clouds are under development by Google, IBM, Sun, Microsoft, etc., and widespread acceptance is hindered by selfish behavior and security concerns. Briefly, the keynote includes rise and fall of computing technologies and hot paradigms in the last 35 Years, and presents the implication that computing clouds over the Internet will be the next battlefield among competitors. About the speaker: Kai Hwang is a Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and Director of Internet and Grid Computing Laboratory at the University of Southern California. He received the Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley in 1972. Prior to joining USC in 1985, he has taught at Purdue University for many years. He has served as a distinguished Chair Professor during his sabbatical visits at the Univ. of Minnesota, National Taiwan Univ., and Univ. of Hong Kong. He is the founding Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing. He is also an editor of IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems. Dr. Hwang has authored or coauthored 4 books and 200 scientific papers in refereed Journals and conferences. His past teaching and research work on scalable multiprocessors and parallel processing has been summarized in two of his latest books, Scalable Parallel Computing (McGraw-Hill, 1998) and Advanced Computer Architecture (McGraw-Hill 1993), which are used worldwide and translated into Spanish, Chinese, Japanese, and Korean editions. He was elected an IEEE Fellow in 1986 for making significant contributions in computer architecture, digital arithmetic, and parallel processing. His work was ranked by the CiteSeer Continuity in August 2006 among the top 0.25% most cited authors in Computer Science out of 790,329 authors in the database. He received the K. S. Fu Award in 2004 from China Computer Federation for his outstanding achievements in high-performance computing research and higher education.
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