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Speaker: Arvind Jain
Google India
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Abstract:
I will talk about Google's search cluster architecture that uses more
than 15000 commodity class PCs to deliver superior search performance at
a fraction of the cost of a system built from fewer, but more expensive,
high-end servers. I'll mention some of the challenges we have faced in
making such large scale deployment of commodity hardware work well. In
particular, I will talk about some of our distributed systems software
infrastructure that we have built to manage the underlying unreliable
hardware and make rapid development and deployment of new scalable web
services like Gmail, Google Earth etc.
Profile:
Arvind Jain is a member of Google's systems laboratory and currently the
head of Google India R&D center. At Google, he has worked on various
infrastructure projects including the crawl and indexing system,
distributed file replication system, and compression techniques for
large scale storage systems. Before joining Google, he was the founding
engineer at Riverbed Corporation, a networking startup that builds
caching and compression based appliances to speed up WAN interactions
from remote offices in an enterprise. Prior to Riverbed, he was the
architect of the streaming and storage division at Akamai Technologies
where he helped build Akamai's distributed video on demand and live
broadcasting service. He started his career at Microsoft Corporation
where he worked on various components in the Windows NT kernel. He holds
an M.S. and BTech in Computer Science from University of Washington and
Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, respectively.
Speaker: Dr Debasis Dash
Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology (CSIR), Delhi, India
Abstract:
GenoCluster: A novel platform for Comparative Genomics
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Profile:
Debasis Dash completed his PhD in Biophysical Chemistry from the
University of Delhi (1998). He is currently working as a scientist in
the Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology, Delhi, India in
Genome Informatics division. He has made significant contributions
towards development of in silico tools for large scale comparative
genomics studies and some of the software developed by him are being
commercially available and are being extensively used by academic
institutes. His major contribution is in the development of a functional
annotation tool PLHOST, CoPS database and GenoCluster. He has also
contributed towards identification of functional signature and
structural determinant using the concept of peptide library. He has been
responsible for the development of the software platform and portal for
Indian Genome Variation that integrates phenotype-genotype data of
normal Indian subpopulations. He has been awarded the CSIR Young
Scientist Award (2004).
Speaker: Srikanth Sundarrajan
Software Engineering and Technology Labs (SETLabs),Infosys, India
Abstract:
As Grid moves beyond the traditional HPC and scientific
computational problems and reaches out to the enterprises, there is a
distinct set of issues to be addressed. System virtualization at the
infrastructure layer promises to provide the isolation, fault tolerance
and quality of service guarantees that traditional grid systems fail to
address completely. The dedicated Grid R&D team at Infosys has a
specific focus on system virtualization and how that can complement Grid
in taking this exciting technology forward. Focus of the presentation
would be to deliberate on the need for system virtualization at the
infrastructure layer and some insights into our research direction in
this area.
Profile:
Srikanth Sundarrajan is a Technical Architect with the High
Performance Computing Division at the Software Engineering and
Technology Labs (SETLabs), Infosys, leading the virtualization research.
Prior to joining Infosys, he was architecting and building enterprise
web solutions around Microsoft technologies. He has earned his MS in
Computer Engineering from the University of Southern California. His
special interests include architecting distributed systems and
networking technologies. He has contributed to a few open source
projects including NS-2.
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