Cloud computing: recent advances and challenges at infrastructure and application levels

Speaker: Rodrigo Calheiros

Affiliation: University of Melbourne

Time: Wednesday 09/03/2016 from 13:30 to 14:30

Venue: Access Grid UWS. Presented from Parramatta (EB.1.32), accessible from Campbelltown (26.1.50) and Penrith (Y239).

Abstract: In 2013, the Australian Academy of Science identified cloud computing as one of the main enablers of solutions of the Grand Challenges in Computer Science for the next 10-20 years. Nevertheless, applications cannot benefit from cloud capabilities, such as on-demand scaling and elasticity without changes in the way they are designed, implemented, and deployed. At the same time, new resource management techniques in the cloud can help in reducing the effort of application developers to leverage its benefits and at the same time make resource utilization more efficient. In this talk, I will discuss recent progress in these two fronts: infrastructure-level techniques rationalizing the use of the cloud infrastructure and applications tackling Grand Challenges and other relevant domains. I will conclude the talk with exciting open challenges in the area.

Biography: Dr. Rodrigo N. Calheiros is a Research Fellow in the Department of Computing and Information Systems, The University of Melbourne, Australia. Since 2010, he is a member of the CLOUDS Lab of the University of Melbourne, where he researches various aspects of cloud computing. He works in this field since 2008, when he designed and developed CloudSim, an Open Source tool for simulation of cloud platforms used by HP Labs, Huawei, Xerox PARC, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and the Chinese Academy of Science, among other institutions and companies. His research interests also include Internet of Things, Big Data, SDN, Mobile Cloud computing, and other applications for cloud platforms.