Speaker: Dr. Manish Parashar, Associate Professor of Electrical and
Computer Engineering at Rutgers University
Title: Enabling Next Generation Knowledge-based Data-driven
Scientific Investigation
Date and Time: February 24 (Thursday), 2005, 3:30 pm
Place: Room 338, Johnston Hall, LSU
Abstract:
Knowledge-based data-driven scientific investigation, enabled by
the emerging computational and information Grid, symbiotically and opportunistically
combines computations, experiments, observations and data to provide dramatic insights
into complex phenomenon. However the scale, complexity, heterogeneity and dynamism of
these applications and the underlying Grid environment present a new generation of
computational grand challenges. In this talk I will investigate autonomic self-managing
solutions, based on strategies used by biological systems, to address these challenges.
I will first introduce Project AutoMate, a recent research effort investigating conceptual
models and implementation architectures for enabling the development and execution of
self-managing Grid applications. I will then focus on the Accord
programming system, which enables the development of applications that can detect and
dynamically respond to changing requirements, state and execution context by adapting
their computational behaviors and interactions
About the Speaker:
Manish Parashar is Associate Professor of Electrical
and Computer Engineering at Rutgers University, where he is also director of the Applied
Software Systems Laboratory. He received a BE degree in Electronics and Telecommunications
from Bombay University, India in 1988, and MS and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Engineering
from Syracuse University in 1994. He has received the NSF CAREER Award (1999) and the
Enrico Fermi Scholarship from Argonne National Laboratory (1996). His current research
interests include parallel and distributed computing (including autonomic, Grid and
peer-to-peer computing) with applications to computational science and engineering,
networking and software engineering. Manish is a member of the executive committee of
the IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Parallel Processing (TCPP), part of the
IEEE Computer Society Distinguished Visitor Program (2004-2006), and a member of ACM.
He is also the co-founder of the IEEE International Conference on Autonomic Computing (ICAC).
Manish has co-authored over 140 technical papers in international journals and conferences,
has co-authored/edited 6 books/proceedings, and has contributed to several others in the
area of computational science and parallel and distributed computing.
For more information please visit
http://www.caip.rutgers.edu/~parashar .
