HotMetrics 2009: Program

Invited Talk: Krishna Kant, NSF and Intel Research

Modeling Challenges in Distributed Energy Adaptive Computing

Fueled by burgeoning online services, power and thermal issues are becoming a substantial issue in terms of cost and environmental impact both on the server (or data center) side and  client side.  This talk shall motivate an approach that puts power/thermal issues at the heart of distributed computing, and strives to dynamically adapt to energy related constraints in order to deliver an acceptable user experience. The talk will address how such an approach can enhance the sustainability of computing and will lay out algorithmic and modeling challenges in realizing the vision.

Speaker Bio:
Dr. Krishna Kant has been with Intel Corp since 1997 where he has worked in a variety of research areas including traffic characterization, security/ robustness in the Internet, data center networking, utility computing, and power control of computer systems.  He is currently on a visiting appointment with the National Science Foundation. From 1991 to 1997, he was with Telcordia Technologies (formerly Bellcore) and worked on SS7 signaling and congestion control. Prior to this, he was an Associate Professor of Computer Science at Penn State University. He is the author of the graduate text book "Introduction to Computer System Performance Modeling", McGraw Hill 1992. He received his Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from University of Texas at Dallas in 1981.