CONVENED MONDAY November 02, 9:00am - 10:30am | Oak/Fir Ballroom
KEYNOTE: Impact of Cloud Computing on Extreme Scale Analytics Platforms
Hamid Pirahesh, Ph.D. - IBM/ACM Fellow
Information technology is going through a fundamental change, influenced primarily by (1) Flexible provisioning and scalability of Cloud Computing, (2) Accelerated pace of analytics around semi-structured and unstructured data in the context of semantically rich data objects in the main stream data processing, (3) Much increased human interaction with the web due to the use of GPS enabled mobile devices, and its application in our daily lives, from social networking to conducting financial transactions, (4) Web Scale programming community with Web 2.0, search and open software, (5) Rise of SaaS (Software As A Service). There is particular emphasis on breaking the complexity barrier of today's solutions through simplification. The lifetime cost of ownership of solutions is dominated by the human time spent in building, operating, and evolving these solutions. Much increased compute power in cloud computing enables us to reduce this complexity by reducing the use of fragile, complex, and partially manually optimized programs in favor of simpler and more stable and scalable ones. Flexibility and much quicker provisioning of cloud computing combined with much reduced cost per terra byte/flop are key factors in much faster deployment of solutions. High scale cloud platforms play an increasingly bigger role in the strategy of NSF and other government agencies. IBM-google cloud is an example of an effort that provides cloud services for universities. Societal smarter planet applications, such as Smart Traffic, energy grids, healthcare, cities are increasingly important for both government and commercial companies. Commercially viable high scale compute and storage infrastructure is a key enabler for these applications. As such, in the context of the data intensive applications, there are significant opportunities in optimizing multicore chips and hardware/storage systems.
Bio:Hamid Pirahesh, Ph.D., is an IBM Fellow, ACM Fellow and is a senior manager responsible for the exploratory database research department at IBM Almaden Research Center. Pirahesh is an IBM master inventor, and is a member of IBM Academy. He is a core member of IBM Information Management Architecture board, and has direct responsibilities in various aspects of IBM information management products, including IBM DB2 product.
