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EE 598: ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING RESEARCH SEMINAR COURSE #8

Speaker: Alok Kumbhare, PhD Student, Computer Science, USC Viterbi School of Engineering

Talk Title: Dynamic Dataflows & Resilient Execution on Clouds

Series: EE598 Seminar Course

Abstract: The emergence of “Big Data”, due to improvements in scientific processes, deployment of pervasive sensors, and connected devices, coupled with improvements in communication technologies as well as storage and processing capabilities, has led to the need for development of data-intensive applications and application frameworks to analyze this huge collection of stored and continuous streams of Data. In this talk, we discuss the notion of Continuous Dataflows, as an extension to traditional workflows, for processing continuous data streams. In addition, we introduce the concept of Dynamic Dataflows to allow for both domain-driven and infrastructure-driven changes to the application at runtime. In this context, we discuss several challenges due to the dynamic nature of the application as well as the underlying Cloud infrastructure and present several opportunities and preliminary solutions to address those.

Biography: Alok Kumbhare is a PhD student working with Prof. Viktor K. Prasanna and Prof. Yogesh Simmhan in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles. His research focuses on distributed data and computing platforms, especially on the Cloud computing infrastructure. His current research interests include dynamic dataflow programming abstractions and their resilient execution on the dynamic infrastructure provided by the Cloud. In addition, he is working on a distributed Graph oriented file system and to leverage the dynamic dataflows for efficient execution of graph algorithms on extremely large data sets. He earned his BS degree in Computer Science and Engineering from Indian Institute of technology Guwahati in 2008.

Host: Professor Viktor K. Prasanna

More Information: Course Announcement_EE598_Focused on parallel and distributed computing_(Spring 2013) 2.pdf

Location: Hughes Aircraft Electrical Engineering Center (EEB) - 248

Audiences: Everyone Is Invited

Contact: Janice Thompson