Network

NINTH INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON MODELING, ANALYSIS AND SIMULATION OF COMPUTER AND TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS

August 15-18, 2001, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
Sponsored by IEEE Computer Society
In Cooperation with ACM SIGSIM and SIGARCH

Network-Based Computing: Issues, Trends, and Challenges

Dhabaleswar Panda (Ohio State University)

The current decade is seeing rapid growths along three major directions: 1) low-cost and commodity workstations/PCs, 2) commodity networking technologies, and 3) Web technology. This trend is forcing us to a new computing paradigm called "Network-Based Computing". This tutorial will provide an in-depth look at this emerging trend. It will provide an overview of the driving applications from different areas (such as databases, digital library, multimedia, tele-medicine, visualization, collaborative computing, meta-computing, electronic commerce, virtual reality, digital leisure, and community information network) behind this new trend. Three categories of network-based computing systems to support the above applications will be introduced. Basic research issues (such as networking technologies, fast communication, programming environments, security, QoS, and interfacing) in designing and using such systems will be investigated. Suitability of the current and emerging networking technologies like Gigabit Ethernet, ATM, Myrinet, and Fibre Channel for designing network-based computing systems will be analyzed. An overview of some representative network-based computing systems/environments/testbeds will be outlined. The tutorial will conclude with a discussion of the upcoming challenges in designing future network-based computing systems with the availability of gigabit networking technologies, multi-way SMP systems, and Internet II.

Brief Biography of Dr. Dhabaleswar Panda

Dhabaleswar K. Panda is a Professor of Computer Science at the Ohio State University. He obtained his Ph.D. in computer engineering from the University of Southern California, USA, in 1991. His research interests include parallel computer architecture, network-based computing, interprocessor communication and synchronization, and high-performance computing. He has published over 90 papers in major journals and international conferences related to these research areas. Dr. Panda has served on Program Committees and Organizing Committees of several parallel processing conferences. He was a Program Co-Chair of the 1999 International Conference on Parallel Processing, the Founding Co-Chair of the 1997 and 1998 Workshops on Communication and Architectural Support for Network-Based Parallel Computing (CANPC), and a Co-Guest-Editor for two special issue volumes of Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing on ``Workstation Clusters and Network-based Computing''. He also served as an IEEE Distinguished Visitor Speaker, and an IEEE Chapters Tutorials Program Speaker during 1997-2000. Currently, he is serving as an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Computing, General Co-Chair of the 2001 International Conference on Parallel Processing, and Program Co-Chair of the 2001 Workshop on Communication Architecture for Clusters (CAC). Dr. Panda is a recipient of the NSF Faculty Early CAREER Development Award, the Lumley Research Award at Ohio State University (1997 and 2001), and an Ameritech Faculty Fellow Award. Dr. Panda is listed as a distinguished scientist in "Who'sWho in America" and in "American Men & Women of Science".

Home page: http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/~panda