Uppsala: eSSENCE seminars – a series organised jointly by eSSENCE and UPPMAX

Talk: Elastic computers, IT in the cloud, and other everyday commodities in 2015
Speaker: Professor Erik Elmroth, Dept. of Computing Science, Umeå University
Time: 15:15 Wednesday 25 May 2011
Room: Ångström 2004

Abstract:
We all use internet services to a rapidly increasing extent, be it video-streaming or social network activities from YouTube and Facebook, live news and sports video streaming from CNN, Al-Jazeera or SVT Play, filing the tax return, or on-line shopping. The provision of such services has become a new challenge for data centers and network providers due to the enormous scale and often extreme and rapid variations in load. Imagine, for example, the challenge to meet the extreme load increases for the CNN news video streaming service when airplanes flew into the towers in New York, the tsunami hit the Japanese coast, or the revolution begun in Egypt. The next generation so-called cloud computing technology is proposed as a convenient solution, combining virtual machines and distributed systems technology to create large-scale virtual IT capacity that automatically – in minutes, not in days or months – can scale up or down capacity with magnitudes, or in real-time without service interruption move services closer to end-users to make better use of network capacity.

This presentation will give a first (and non-technical) introduction to the area of cloud computing and illustrate some of research challenges we need solve to make the fully automated, elastic and distributed cloud infrastructure a reality. You may not be aware of it, but you are probably using early cloud
technology already today…

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WELCOME!

The eSSENCE seminar committee
maya.neytcheva, ingela.nystrom, sverker.holmgren, kersti.hermansson, biplab.sanyal

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