Abstract
Delivering on the promise of Cloud Computing requires an infrastructure able to flexibly handle a large number of requests in real-time. As the world's largest system/server company, IBM has built a virtual IT cloud infrastructure in our Silicon Valley Lab. In this talk, I will describe IBM's implementation of a cloud computing infrastructure, with an emphasis on provisioning, cluster management, and use of open-source solutions.
About the Speaker
Eugene Hung is a senior software engineer at IBM's Silicon Valley Laboratory in San Jose, CA. His current work focuses on enabling the development of Internet-scale applications for cloud computing, a model for massively parallel systems handling enormous amounts of data. To support cloud computing, Eugene co-authored an Eclipse plug-in that interfaces with Hadoop, an open-source implementation of Google's Map/Reduce framework, to give university students experience in developing cloud computing applications. He was also lead developer on Sonoma, a capacity planning tool for IBM machines. Eugene completed his PhD on mobile agent templates at the University of California, San Diego and has been working at IBM since graduation. Outside of work, he has achieved recognition for winning two collegiate bridge championships, building the worst fantasy baseball team in the world, and discovering that IBM is not the right answer for everything on Jeopardy!
