Keynotes

Keynotes

Prof. Randy H. Katz (University of California at Berkeley)

Prof. Carl Kesselman (Center for Grid Technologies, University of Southern California)

Dave McNamee (Director of Engineering, Cisco Systems)

Gabriel Sidhom (VP Technology Development, Orange Labs San Francisco)

Paul Gleichauf (CTO Network Management Technology Group, Cisco)

Prof. Raouf Boutaba (University of Waterloo, Canada)

Dr. Mazin Yousif (Principal Engineer, Systems Technology Labs, Intel Corp, USA)

[ Prof. Randy H. Katz (University of California at Berkeley) ] Title: Research Directions in Internet-scale Computing Abstract: Building modern scalable Internet services -- for example, the next YouTube -- requires a massive development and deployment effort in terms of processing, networking, and applications infrastructures and frameworks. To build the next EBay requires building a company the size of EBay. Is there a better way? In this talk, I present a new research vision that seeks to apply machine learning techniques to manage resources in complex Internet service environments. The goal is to develop technology that can support a small team --ultimately a single individual -- in developing, deploying, and operating Internet-scale services that must scale rapidly. At its core, such a research agenda encompasses the intersection of research in applications, systems architecture, operating systems, networking, and machine learning. Bio: Randy Katz received the A.B. degree from Cornell, and the M.S. and Ph.D. from Berkeley. He is currently the United Microelectronics Corporation Distinguished Professor at Berkeley. He is a Fellow of the ACM and the IEEE, and a member of the National Academy of Engineering and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He has over 250 refereed publications, and has supervised 43 M.S. theses and 38 Ph.D. dissertations. His recognitions include thirteeen best paper awards, three best presentation awards, the IEEE Reynolds Johnson Information Storage Award, the ASEE Frederic E. Terman Award, the ACM Karl V. Karlstrom Outstanding Educator Award, and the ACM Sigmobile Outstanding Contributor Award. With colleagues at Berkeley, he developed RAID, a $15 billion/year storage industry sector.

[ Prof. Carl Kesselman, Center for Grid Technologies, University of Southern California ] Title: Dynamic Infrastructure for Virtual Organizations Abstract: Increasingly, innovation in science, engineering and commerce takes place within the context of dynamic, distributed inter-organizational collaborations that are often called "Virtual Organizations." These collaborations are distinguished in that integration of IT resources is fundamental to the work and operation of the collaboration. The dynamic and multi-institutional nature of these collaborations an equally dynamic and multi-institutional approach to the underlying infrastructure that supports these organizations. One must be able to dynamically allocate, provision and deploy services and deliver them to the diverse individuals and organizations that are participating in the collaboration. In this talk, I will describe the current state of the art in virtual organizations and describe some of the new techniques that are being developed to support the dynamic infrastructure requirements of these collaborations. Bio: Dr. Carl Kesselman is Fellow in the Information Sciences Institute at the University of Southern California. He is the Director of the Center for Grid Technologies at the Information Sciences Institute and a Research Professor of Computer Science at the University of Southern California. He received a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of California, Los Angeles, a Master of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Southern California, and Bachelors degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the University at Buffalo. Dr. Kesselman also serves as Chief Scientist of Univa Corporation, a company he founded with Globus co-founders Ian Foster and Steve Tuecke. Dr. Kesselman's current research interests are all aspects of Grid computing, including basic infrastructure, security, resource management, high-level services and Grid applications. He is the author of many significant papers in the field. Together with Dr. Ian Foster, he initiated the Globus Project(tm), one of the leading Grid research projects. The Globus project has developed the Globus Toolkit(r), the de facto standard for Grid computing. Dr. Kesselman received the 1997 Global Information Infrastructure Next Generation Internet award, the 2002 R&D 100 award, the 2002 R&D Editors choice award, the Federal Laboratory Consortium (FLC) Award for Excellence in Technology Transfer and the 2002 Ada Lovelace Medal from the British Computing Society for significant contributions to information technology. Along with his colleagues Ian Foster and Steve Tuecke, he was named one of the top 10 innovators of 2002 by InfoWorld Magazine. In 2003, he and Dr. Foster were named by MIT Technology Review as the creators of one of the "10 technologies that will change the world." In 2007, Kesselman and his collaborators were recognized with an Internet2 Idea award and ComputerWorld's Horizon Award. In 2006 Dr. Kesselman received an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Amsterdam.

[ Paul Gleichauf (CTO Network Management Technology Group, Cisco) ] Title: Virtualization quo vadis Abstract: Virtualization of computing resources, especially in the data center, has been largely propelled by the ability to increase utilization of computer resources. That's not what is most interesting or likely to be most useful about virtualization going forward. This informal talk will explore some prospects for virtualization in the large and in the small, in the network itself as well as in conjunction with servers and clients, and how can we hope to manage the mobile proliferation of resources. Bio: Paul Gleichauf is the Chief Technical Officer of the Network Management Technology Group at Cisco. The focus of the CTO includes anticipating significant systems problems that transcend management. The CTO organization develops concepts from feasibility study through prototype, and when successful transition to product groups across the company. CTO office also drives architectural design and tooling for the suite of Cisco management products. Standards strategy and coordination are a significant responsibility for the CTO staff. Paul has been at Cisco since 2000 originally working as a technology strategist in Strategic Alliances, later initiating several advanced projects for the company before moving into Network Management. He came to Cisco from the Justsystem Pittsburgh Research Center where he was a member of the founding research staff. He came to JPRC after doing research at Carnegie Mellon University in software engineering of next-generation computer languages and tools for rapid development including LISP, Dylan and Java. Paul was trained as a physicist and mathematician at the University of California at San Diego, the Universitat Gottingen in Germany, and the University of Texas at Austin, in addition to computer science studies at Carnegie Mellon.

[ Dave McNamee (Director of Engineering, Cisco Systems) ] Title: The Challenges and Evolution of Instrumentation and Manageability in a Web 2.0 World Abstract: Traditionally, the Web 1.0 world has been one of static communication between information providers and information consumers. The move to the newer dynamic and participative model of Web 2.0 raises new opportunities and challenges for the role of instrumentation and management of the underlying networks and services. As networking devices become more complex and end users continue to use the network and services in previously un-imagined ways, management capabilities will be challenged to stay in front. At the same time, there is opportunity to utilize this newer and more powerful environment to offer better manageability than was possible before. The keynote will outline some of the associated opportunities and challenges. Bio: Dave McNamee is a Director of Engineering at Cisco Systems, where he is currently responsible for the direction and implementation of management instrumentation for Cisco IOS devices. He has been involved with network and system management since the mid-90s, starting as a system adminstrator and system architect, and moving to the development of network management applications and device instrumentation. His work has spanned from protocol servers such as RADIUS, TACACS+, DNS and DHCP to Service Provider-oriented Management Applications targeted at Voice over IP, MPLS and IPSEC VPN, and finally to current and next generation device instrumentation and management interfaces, including CLI, SNMP, syslog, XML-based interfaces, intelligent agents, and instrumentation development tooling. Dave holds a Bachelor of Science in Aerospace Engineering from San Jose State University.

[ Gabriel Sidhom (VP Technology Development, Orange Labs San Francisco) ] Title: Overcoming the Limits of Intelligent Networks with End-to-End Virtualization Abstract: Intelligent Networks (IN) have been a key enabler towards allowing rapid service deployment, standard interfaces and service customization. Today, virtualization technologies provide the flexibility to allow for rapid service deployment and the ability to provide high availability with inexpensive infrastructure. In much the same way that Intelligent Networks managed call routing and arbitration for voice networks, virtualization promises to allow automated service creation for multimedia based rich services, global load distribution and HA/DR for all-IP networks and services. By applying the two sets of technologies together, we are able to imagine truly agile infrastructures. Bio: Gabriel Sidhom was named VP – Technology Development for France Telecom Research & Development, LLC in September 2004. Previously he was in charge of Technology Analysis and Implementation for the unit, a position he was named to in April, 2001. He also represents France Telecom as a elected Member of the Board Directors of the Metro Ethernet Forum. Previously, he held the position of vice president for France Telecom’s European-based business wholesale services division. Mr. Sidhom was formerly vice president, Marketing & Business Planning for GlobeCast, France Telecom’s satellite broadcasting service subsidiary. From 1993 to 1996, he directed France Telecom’s international data and voice product management and development, operational marketing, advertising and sales support as vice president, International Business Marketing. From 1991 to 1993, he served as vice president, marketing for France Telecom New York, overseeing activity for the company’s North American operations. Before joining France Telecom, Mr. Sidhom worked with GTE in a variety of executive-level marketing and development roles from 1980 to 1991. Mr. Sidhom holds a BA in Monetary Economics & Political Science from Occidental College in California, and a MA in Industrial Organization & Financial Markets from UCLA.

[ Prof. Raouf Boutaba (University of Waterloo, Canada) ] Title: Distributed Search Revisited: Resolving the Conflict of Efficiency and Flexibility Abstract: Peer-to-peer technology has impacted a wide range of distributed systems beyond simple file-sharing. Distributed XML databases, Distributed computing, server-less web publishing and networked resource/service sharing are only a few to name. Despite the diversity in applications, these systems share a common problem regarding searching and discovery of information. This commonality stems from transitory peer population and volatile peer content. As an effect users do not have the exact information about what they are looking for. Rather queries are based on partial information, which requires the search mechanism to be flexible. On the other hand to scale with network size the search mechanism is also required to be bandwidth efficient. Since the advent of P2P technology experts from industry and academia have proposed a number of search techniques - none of which is able to provide satisfactory solution to the conflicting requirements of search efficiency and flexibility. Structured search techniques, mostly DHT-based, are bandwidth efficient while semi(un)-structured techniques are flexible. But, neither achieves both ends. This talk will introduce a generic framework called Distributed Pattern Matching to address the search problem in distributed environments while achieving both search flexibility and efficiency. Bio: Raouf Boutaba is currently a Professor of Computer Science at the University of Waterloo and a David R. Cheriton faculty fellow. Before that he was the Director of the Telecommunications and Distributed Systems Division of the Computer Science Research Institute of Montreal. He held Visiting Professor Positions at the University of Toronto (Canada), the University of Pierre et Marie Curie (France), the University of Versailles (France), POSTECH (Korea), and ENST-Paris (France). He is currently a distinguished speaker of the IEEE Communications Society and served in the past as a distinguished speaker of the IEEE Computer Society. He is the Chairman of the IEEE Communications Society Technical Committee on Information Infrastructure and the IEEE Communications Society Technical Sub-Committee on Autonomic Communications, and the Director of the Related Societies Board of the IEEE Communications Society. He is a Past Chair of the IFIP Working Group on Networks and Distributed Systems, Past Director of the standards board of the IEEE Communications Society, and Past Vice Chair of IEEE Communications Society Technical Committee on Information Infrastructure. He is the founder and Editor in Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management, on the advisory editorial board of the Journal of Network and Systems Management, and on the editorial board of other journals including the KIKS/IEEE Journal of Communications and Networks, and the Journal of Computer Networks. He acted as the general or program chair for many conferences including NOMS, MANWEEK, NETWORKING, and ICC/GLOBECOM Symposia. His research interests include network, resource and service management in multimedia wired and wireless networks. He has published more than 200 papers in refereed journals and conference proceedings and received several journal and conference Best Paper awards and other recognitions such as the Premier's Research Excellence Award, two NORTEL research excellence Awards, and a fellowship of the Faculty of Mathematics at the University of Waterloo.

[ Dr. Mazin Yousif (Principal Engineer, Systems Technology Labs, Intel Corp, USA) ] Title: Autonomic Computing in the Virtualized Enterprise Abstract: Current datacenters deployments are commonly static, provisioned for peak and rely on somewhat simple centralized management infrastructure. This increases the datacenter’s Total Cost of Ownership (TCO). It is our belief that virtualization, autonomics and modularity will be essential pillars for future enterprises. This talk will first lay the foundation of future enterprises then focus on the autonomic aspects of the enterprise enumerating the necessary autonomic features that need to be implemented including Security & Auditing, dynamic resource allocation, power management, utility SLA and simplified management. I’ll pick selected features and discuss them including resources discovery; policy-based power management; Virtual Machines (VM) migration; metering in virtualized environments and SLA auditing. Bio: Mazin Yousif is in the Corporate Technology Group of Intel Corporation in Hillsboro, OR. He leads a team that focuses on platform provisioning & virtualization to enable platform autonomics in a scale-out environment. Prior to that, Mazin was in the Enterprise Product Group focusing on InfiniBand, datacenter I/O interconnects and datacenter applications workload characterization. During his involvement with the InfiniBand Architecture, Mazin was chairing the InfiniBand Trade Association (IBTA) Management Working Group. Mazin finished his Masters and Ph.D. degrees from the Pennsylvania State University in 1987 and 1992, respectively. From 1993 to 1995, he was an assistant professor in the Computer Science Department at Louisiana Tech University. Mazin worked for IBM’s xSeries Server Division in Research Triangle Park (RTP), NC, from 1995 – 2000. During his tenure in industry, Mazin served as an adjunct professor at Duke, NCSU and currently OGI. His research interests include Computer Architecture, Autonomics, Workload-driven platform architectures, Networking and Performance Evaluation. He has published 50+ articles in his areas of research. Mazin has chaired several conferences and workshops, was in the program committees of many others, and led several panels. He serves in the advisory board and editorial board of several journals.