Speaker: Professor Micah Beck, Computer Science University of Tennessee
Abstract:
Traditional networking (e.g. the Internet) implements a shared
communication fabric that is used in Distributed Domputing environments
(e.g. today's
"Computational Grid") to tie together storage resources that reside at
massive Data Centers. However, as scientific datasets has grown to
terabytes, with petabytes an approaching reality, the need to manage
data in transit as it flows between network endpoints is emerging as a
real concern that is not addressed by conventional data managmeent
tools. Logistical Networking is a new networking paradigm that enables
users to express and control the location of data while it is in
transit, using shared storage resources. As such, it represents an
application of the principles and organizing principles of networking to
storage resources, which are becoming cheap, dense and ubiquitously
available. This talk will introduce the concepts and explain the basic
mechanisms of Logistical Networking, and will explain how it is being
used to apply new approaches to difficult problems in Data Intensive
Distribute Computing environments.