Manish Parashar
Center for Advanced Information Processing
Rutgers University
New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA
Significant strategic investments are quickly realizing a pervasive
computational infrastructure that integrates computers, networks, data
archives, instruments, observatories, and embedded sensors and
actuators.
This in turn has the potential for enabling new paradigms and
practices in
computational science and engineering ? those that symbiotically and
opportunistically combine computations, experiments, observations, and
real-time information. However the ability of scientists to realize this
potential is being severely hampered primarily due to the increased
complexity and dynamism of the applications and computing environments.
Autonomic computing has the potential to fundamentally address these
challenges. In this talk, I will motivate autonomics for computational
science and engineering. I will then describe research efforts at TASSL,
Rutgers University as part of the NSF Center for Autonomic Computing
aimed
at enabling autonomic scientific and engineering applications that can
address the challenges of (and benefit from) pervasive computational
ecosystems.
Biography: Manish Parashar is Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Rutgers University, where he also is director of the NSF Center for Autonomic Computing (CAC) and director of the Applied Software Systems Laboratory. He received a BE degree in Electronics and Telecommunications from Bombay University, India and MS and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Engineering from Syracuse University. He has received the IBM Faculty Award (2008) Rutgers Board of Trustees Award for Excellence in Research (2004-2005), NSF CAREER Award (1999) and the Enrico Fermi Scholarship from Argonne National Laboratory (1996). His research is in the broad area of applied parallel & distributed computing and computational science, and specifically on solving science and engineering problems on very large systems. For more information please visit http://www.ece.rutgers.edu/~parashar/.