Computer Science

Colloquium Details

The Emerging Cyberinfrastructure

Abstract

Today, computation and information infrastructure has become a first-class tool for science and engineering. Some of the most difficult problems and fundamental advances in biology, physics, chemistry, astronomy, and many other disciplines are being addressed through the coordination of computation, data management, networking, visualization, scientific instruments "glued together" by integrative software systems - also known as Cyberinfrastructure.

Today, there is an evolving effort among the science and engineering community to build an enabling, persistent and rich infrastructure to support the next generation of discoveries and results. In this talk, we discuss the challenges and opportunities of building the Cyberinfrastructure required to enable a new era of science and engineering advances.

Biography

Dr. Fran Berman is Professor and High Performance Computing Endowed Chair at U.C. San Diego, Director of the San Diego Supercomputer Center and a Fellow of the ACM. Dr. Berman's research over two decades has focused on High Performance and Grid Computing, in particular in the areas of programming environments, adaptive middleware, scheduling and performance prediction. She has served on numerous editorial boards, steering committees, and program and conference committees in the areas of Parallel and Grid Computing. Dr. Berman is one of the Principal Investigators of the NSF-supported TeraGrid, and directs NSF's National Partnership for Advanced Computing Infrastructure (NPACI).