Title: “CROWN project: a
Service-oriented Grid middleware and its challenges”
Dr. Jinpeng Huai,
Abstract:
Peer-to-peer (P2P) and grid computing are widely considered as the next wave of distributed computing, which promise to enable the federation of heterogeneous and geographically dispersed computing resources to provide more powerful, reliable and uniform services in an open Internet with the self-organizing and dynamic nature. They strive to integrate various resources on the virtual organization, including computational power, data storage, communications, software and even expertises. P2P and grid technologies are evolving rapidly with the progress of Web Service.
This talk will first discuss a service grid middleware system, CROWN(China R&D Environment Over Wide-area Network) project supported by NSFC. As the two kernel points of the middleware,an overlay based distributed grid resource management mechanism is proposed,the policy-based distributed access control mechanism with the capability of automatic negotiation of the access control policy and a trust management and negotiation mechanism is also discussed. Meanwhile, the talk will discuss some new challenges for future Distributed Computing because Client/Virtual Computing Environment is a promising direction with the development of distributed computing and the huge requirement of its applications, and “Soft” issues, such as Availability, Reliability, Integrity, trustworthiness and Maintainability, are not soft compared to hard issues in an open Internet. So what are big challenges for future Distributed Computing/Virtual Network Computing? The answer is that Service-oriented computing with dependability will be a Choice in the near future.
Short Biography:
Dr. Jinpeng Huai is a Professor and Vice President of Beihang University. He serves on the Steering Committee for Advanced Computing Technology Subject, the National High-Tech Program (863) as Chief Scientist. He is a member of Consulting Committee of the Central Government’s Information Office, and Chairman of the Expert Committee in both the National e-Government Engineering Taskforce and the National e-Government Standard.
Dr. Huai and his colleagues are leading the key projects in e-Science of the National Science Foundation of China (NSFC) and MOST. He has published over 100 papers and received more than 40 patents. His research interests include Service-oriented computing and Middleware, distributed computing, trustworthiness and security.