COLLOQUIUM
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
University of South Carolina
 
Building Sustainable e-Infrastructure for Research and Education

 Wolfgang Gentzsch

 DEISA-2 Consortium (Distributed European 
Infrastructure for Supercomputing Applications)

Date: February 25, 2011 (Friday)
Time: 1430-1530 (2:30-3:30pm)
Place: Swearingen 1A03 (Faculty Lounge)

Abstract

The presentation starts with an overview on architectures, components,
and applications of e-Infrastructures (or Cyberinfrastructures),
including servers, grids, and clouds, to research and education. We
then elaborate on some of the most important benefits of and barriers
for building and operating these infrastructures, and on factors
affecting their wider acceptance. We continue with presenting ten
rules that may help to develop sustainable infrastructures for
research and education. Finally, we examine several important aspects
beyond technological issues, such as sharing of resources, sensitive
data, optimizing applications, open source, liability, licensing, and
intellectual property, which can prevent further development and
acceptance of these new technologies.

Dr. Wolfgang Gentzsch is a strategic consultant for HPC, Grid, and
Cloud infrastructures for governments, research, and industry
world-wide. He is Director At Large of the OGF Open Grid Forum for
e-Infrastructure Standards and advisor to the Distributed European
Infrastructure for Supercomputing Applications (DEISA). From
2004–2008, he was a member of US President's Council of Advisors
for Science and Technology, PCAST. He directed the $150 Mio German
D-Grid Initiative, and was a professor of Computer Science at Duke
University in Durham, NC State in Raleigh, North Carolina, and the
University of Applied Sciences in Regensburg, Germany. He was a
visiting scientist at the RENCI Renaissance Computing Institute at UNC
Chapel Hill, North Carolina, and held leading positions in the US
industry (at Sun, MCNC, and Gridware Inc.) and in Germany (at Genias
Software and the Aerospace and Aeronautics Center DLR). Dr. Gentzsch
studied Mathematics and Physics at the Technical Universities in
Aachen and Darmstadt in Germany.  He obtained a Ph.D. in Applied
Mathematics from the Technical University of Darmstadt.