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ISC'08 Opening Keynote
ISC'08 Keynote, Wednesday, June 18, 11:10 am – 11:55 am
Prof. Dr. Satoshi Matsuoka
Tokyo Institute of Technology, Global Scientific Information and Computing Center, Japan
Satoshi Matsuoka received his Ph. D. from the University of Tokyo in 1993. He became a full Professor at the Global Scientific Information and Computing Center (GSIC) of Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo Tech / Titech) in April 2001, leading the Research Infrastructure Division Solving Environment Group of the Titech campus.
He has pioneered grid computing research in Japan the mid 90s along with his collaborators, and currently serves as sub-leader of the Japanese National Research Grid Initiative (NAREGI) project, that aim to create middleware for next-generation CyberScience Infrastructure. He was also the technical leader in the construction of the TSUBAME supercomputer, which has become the fast supercomputer in Asia-Pacific in June, 2006 at 85 Teraflops (peak) and 38.18 Teraflops (Linpack, 7th on the June 2006 list) and also serves as the core grid resource in the Titech Campus Grid.
He has been (co-) program and general chairs of several international conferences including ACM OOPSLA'2002, IEEE CCGrid 2003, HPCAsia 2004, Grid 2006, CCGrid 2006/2007, as well as countless program commmittee positions, in particular numerous SC technical papers committee duties including serving as the network area chair for SC2004. He has been a Steering Group member and an Area Director of the Global Grid Forum since 1999.
He has won several awards including the Sakai award for research excellence from the Information Processing Society of Japan in 1999, and recently received the JSPS Prize from the Japan Society for Promotion of Science.
He serves several editorial positions of international journals including Concurrency: Practice and Experience, and the Journal of Grid Computing.
ISC'08 Keynote Presentation: 'Everybody Supercomputes in the Next Generation Cyber-Science Infrastructure'
Abstract:
Computing has reached the end of the von Neumann era, an era characterized by computers that seem to execute one instruction at a time and that are programmed in languages that rely on this behavior. Now, the foundations of computer science and engineering must be reshaped to deal with the ubiquitous deployment of parallel processors in desktops, laptops, and smartphones. While there is general consensus that computing platforms underlying the grid infrastructures for next-generation cyber-science will continue to evolve, variance in the speed of technology acceleration in HPC is causing many of the assumptions made in the early days of grid to no longer hold. Such divergence in the metrics, as well as wider proliferation of related technologies such as Web 2.0, will be changing the optimal design of the overall grid infrastructure towards more centralization. Moreover, with increased demand for capacity as well as stable operations with rapidly growing number of users, we should turn more to the success model of the Internet itself, where scalability is actually achived via two-tier architecture of highly concentrated and massive datacenters are servers to thin clients, with generic protocols and SOA to hide its mutual locations and the underlying resource placements. This goes in accord with increased density and capacity concentration of modern-day supercomputers---so, supercomputers should no longer be designed to be dedicated to a few selected elites, but should act very much like Internet backend resources. Based on our recent experiences with our TSUBAME supercomputer, which is currently Asia-Pac's fastest machine according to the Top500, and its next petascale generation design thereof, we will discuss the future design of multi-petascale grids with such machines being constituent massive resource nodes supporting SOA instead of vast distribution of smaller resources as envisioned by others. Such an architecture will finally allow "everybody to supercompute" ubiquitously just as people access the Internet today.
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