KEYNOTE SPEAKER

Cloud Computing: Benchmarking Cloud Services and Cloud Resource Management

Prof. Thomas Fahringer
Institute of Computer Science
University of Innsbruck, Austria

Abstract

Industry and academia have made substantial progress in the area of Cloud computing, and yet most success stories are largely limited to business and industry applications. In part, expectations have been raised high by claims that the Cloud can meet today's needs for generic, planet-wide distributed computing and delivery of results. Many of these claims have been demonstrated through pilot projects which increasingly comprise also scientific applications.
This presentation will start with a survey and classification of Cloud computing environments. Benchmarking results will be presented to examine the Cloud as a computing infrastructure for scientific applications. A Cloud resource manager will be introduced that enables scientists to execute scientific workflow applications on the Cloud. Finally, we go beyond academic and scientific applications by examining the Cloud for hosting online games.

Biography of the Keynote Speaker

Thomas Fahringer is a Professor of Computer Science at the University of Innsbruck in Austria. He is leading a research group in the area of distributed and parallel processing which develops the ASKALON system to support researchers worldwide in various fields of science and engineering to develop, analyse, optimize and run parallel and distributed scientific applications.
Before joining the University of Innsbruck, Fahringer worked as an Associate professor at the University of Vienna where his research focused on compiler technology and tools for high performance applications. Fahringer is a graduate of the Technical University of Vienna with a doctorate in computer science. Fahringer was involved in numerous national and international research projects including PPPE, Apart, EGEE 1-2, ASG, K-Wf Grid, CoreGrid, edutain@grid, HIPEAC, Shiwa which were all funded by the European Union. His group has coordinated two EU projects (edutain@grid, EC-GIN). Fahringer has published 3 books, 30 journals and magazines and more than 150 reviewed conference papers including 3 best/distinguished IEEE/ACM papers.