Date : 16 May 2012
Time : 11:00 am - 12:00 noon
Venue : Room PQ703, 7/Floor, PQ core, Mong Man Wai Building
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Abstract:

In the information era, high-performance computing (HPC) is a key paradigm for taming the ever-increasing data volume and users' expectation on the performance of computation. In this talk, I will present my research effort, iHPC, towards a vision that everyone can take advantage of HPC anywhere and anytime.

I have explored two thrusts under the context: HPC@home and HPC@cloud. HPC@home develops the hardware and software infrastructure on personal computers using commodity hardware, whereas HPC@cloud utilizes the current technology of cloud computing to perform HPC in the public data center. Specifically, I will present our recent research efforts in those two thrusts. Finally, I will outline the research opportunities in iHPC.

The Speaker:

Dr. Bingsheng He is currently an Assistant Professor at Division of Networked and Distributed Systems, School of Computer Engineering, Nanyang Technological University. Before that, he was worked for Microsoft Research Asia (2008-2010), where his major research was building high performance cloud computing systems for Microsoft. He got the Bachelor degree in Shanghai Jiao Tong University (1999-2003), and the Ph.D. degree in Hong Kong University of Science & Technology (2003-2008). His current research interests include cloud computing, database systems and high performance computing (with a focus on GPGPU). His papers are published in prestigious international journals and proceedings such as ACM TODS, IEEE TKDE, ACM SIGMOD, VLDB/PVLDB, ACM/IEEE SuperComputing, ACM PACT, ACM SoCC, CIDR and USENIX HotOS. He has been awarded with IBM Ph.D. fellowship (2007-2008) and NVIDIA Academic Partnership (2010-2011).

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