Computer Science Seminar Series
Managing Adaptive Virtual Distributed Environments on a Shared Infrastructure
3:00 p.m. Wednesday, October 1, 2008
Weir Hall, Room 235
Dongyan Xu
Associate Professor
Department of Computer Science
Purdue University
Biography:
Dongyan Xu is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at Purdue University. He is also affiliated with the Center for Education and
Research in Information Assurance and Security (CERIAS). He leads a research group that focuses on the development of virtualization
technologies for distributed computing and for computer malware defense. Dongyan received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University
of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
He received the NSF CAREER Award in 2006, the Best Paper Award from the International Symposium on Recent Advances in Intrusion
Detection
in 2008, and three Seed for Success Awards from Purdue University in 2004 and 2008. He is an associate editor of the Springer Cluster
Computing Journal. His research has been supported by the NSF, IARPA, Microsoft Research, Southwest Research Institute, and Purdue Research
Foundation.
Abstract:
By federating resources from multiple domains, a shared infrastructure provides aggregated computation resources to a wide range of users. With rapid advances in virtualization technologies, we propose the concept of virtual distributed environment as a new sharing paradigm for a shared physical infrastructure. Such virtual environments provide users with private, customized networked platforms to run unmodified distributed applications and experiments. In this talk, I will focus on the enabling of advanced management capabilities for virtual distributed environments, including automatic adaptation and provisioning, live migration and snapshot, and non-intrusive monitoring and logging. I will identify new research challenges in enabling these management capabilities and report our on-going efforts and preliminary results in two application contexts: cyberinfrastructure computing and computer malware investigation.