Basser Seminar Series, School of Information Technologies, USYD:

Resource Allocation for Energy Efficient Large-Scale Distributed Systems

Speaker:        Professor Albert Zomaya
                School of IT, The University of Sydney

Time:           Friday 4 September 2009, 4:00-5:00pm
                Refreshments will be available from 3:30pm

Location:       The University of Sydney, School of IT Building, Lecture
Theatre (Room 123), Level 1

ABSTRACT
Global warming and climate change trends call for urgent action to manage
information and communication technologies in a sustainable manner by
minimizing energy consumption and utilizing resources more efficiently.
Distributed computing environments have become the de facto platforms for many
applications. These systems bring a range of heterogeneous resources that
should be able to function continuously and autonomously. However, distributed
systems expend a lot of energy which raises a range of important research
issues related to the use and virtualisation of ICT resources in a way offers
significant potential to contribute to the goal of what has been described as
'green computing'.

This talk will highlight some of the important questions related to the
development of new algorithms and tools for energy-aware resource management
allocation for large-scale distributed systems enabling these systems to become
environmentally friendly. Also, the talk will review the mission of the newly
established Sydney University Centre for Distributed & High Performance
Computing.

SPEAKER?S BIOGRAPHY
Albert Y. Zomaya is currently the Chair Professor of High Performance Computing
and Networking in the School of Information Technologies, The University of
Sydney. He is the author/co-author of seven books, more than 350 publications
in technical journals and conferences, and the editor of eight books and eight
conference volumes. He is currently an associate editor for 16 journals, such
as the IEEE Transactions on Computers, IEEE Transactions on Parallel and
Distributed Systems and the Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing. He
is also the Founding Editor of the Wiley Book Series on Parallel and
Distributed Computing and was the Chair the IEEE Technical Committee on
Parallel Processing (1999-2003) and currently serves on its executive
committee. He also serves on the Advisory Board of the IEEE Technical Committee
on Scalable Computing and IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society Technical
Committee on Self-Organization and Cybernetics for Informatics and is a
Scientific Council Member of the Institute for Computer Sciences,
Social-Informatics, and Telecommunications Engineering (in Brussels).

Professor Zomaya is also the recipient of the Meritorious Service Award (in
2000) and the Golden Core Recognition (in 2006), both from the IEEE Computer
Society. He is a Chartered Engineer, a Fellow of the American Association for
the Advancement of Science, the IEEE, the Institution of Engineering and
Technology (U.K.), and a Distinguished Engineer of the ACM. His research
interests are in the areas of distributed computing, parallel algorithms and
mobile computing.


LOCATION DETAILS:
The School of Information Technologies is located in the new School of IT
Building (J12), 1 Cleveland Street at the eastern end of the Darlington campus
of the University of Sydney.