Research Seminar by Prof. Shikharesh Majumdar, of the Department.

Abstract: The use of cloud computing that provides resources on demand and empowers its users with the ability to increase or shrink their resource requirements dynamically is growing rapidly. The pay as you go model employed by the cloud and its ability to unify geographically dispersed virtualized resources are spreading its deployment to multiple domains that include big data analytics in the context of both enterprise and scientific and engineering applications as well as the management of smart facilities such
as sensor-equipped bridges and buildings and smart industrial/aerospace machinery. An effective management of resources is crucial in each of these scenarios to effectively harness the power of the underlying resource pool and achieve high system performance. Focusing on resource management this talk will address the various challenges and potential solutions in the context of a cloud deployed in these various application scenarios. Techniques and systems for unification of geographically dispersed resources and the management of resources in the context of latency sensitive data analytics applications will be discussed.