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PAPERBACK price:$40.00 add to cart Rights & Permissions Free PDF Access Sign in to download PDF book and chapters Free Resources Display this book on your site! Related Titles Frontiers of Engineering: Reports on Leading-Edge Engineering from the 2004 NAE Symposium on Frontiers of Engineering NASA Space Technology Roadmaps and Priorities: Restoring NASA's Technological Edge and Paving the Way for a New Era in Space Other Related Titles Frontiers of Engineering: Reports on Leading-Edge Engineering from the 2010 Symposium (2010) Citation Manager Export the bibliographic data for this book in your chosen format Web Search Builder Use this book's key terms to search within this book, across our collection, or across the Web. Skim This Chapter Skim this chapter and use this chapter's key terms to search within this book. Reference Finder Paste in your own text to find books that relate to your topic. Citation Manager . "Introduction--Ali R. Butt and Dilma Da Silva ." Frontiers of Engineering: Reports on Leading-Edge Engineering from the 2010 Symposium. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press, 2010. Please select a format: Page 3   E-mail Share on facebook Facebook Share on delicious Delicious Share on stumbleupon Stumble Share on twitter Twitter More Sharing ServicesMore The following HTML text is provided to enhance online readability. Many aspects of typography translate only awkwardly to HTML. Please use the page image as the authoritative form to ensure accuracy. Introduction ALI R. BUTT Virginia Tech DILMA DA SILVA IBM Research Cloud computing is emerging as a disruptive technology that will change the way users, especially scientists and engineers, design, develop, deploy, use, and disseminate their applications and data. By decoupling lower-level computer system details from application development, and freeing users to focus on their technical and scientific missions, cloud computing is likely to have a profound impact on our lives. Computer-based simulations and applications are considered a “third-pillar” of scientific discovery, which complements the traditional pillars of theory and experimentation. Currently, these simulations and applications, which require significant investment in the acquisition and maintenance of system infrastructure, are used only by seasoned computer scientists. Cloud computing promises to lower the entry barrier and allow for the easy integration of knowledge gained from scientific observation and for predictions of future responses or outcomes. The speakers in this session highlight some recent advances in technologies that are shaping the modern cloud-computing paradigm. Their talks cover a wide range of “cloud aspects,” from designing innovative computer systems to how such systems can be used and configured in an energy-efficient way. Armando Fox (UC-Berkeley) begins with an overview of how next-generation clouds should look. Based on user feedback and a survey of requirements, he discusses the major trends as computer scientists work toward realizing future clouds and making them amenable to wide-scale use and adaptation, enabling the democratization of supercomputing. Next, Luiz Andre Barroso (Google) describes the basics of cloud computing—how such systems are realized, the challenges to providing transparent interfaces to users while maintaining unfathomable scale, Page 3 Front Matter (R1-R12) CLOUD COMPUTING (1-2) Introduction--Ali R. Butt and Dilma Da Silva (3-4) Opportunities and Challenges of Cloud Computing--Armando Fox (5-14) Warehouse-Scale Computing: The Machinery That Runs the Cloud--Luiz André Barroso (15-20) Developing Robust Cloud Applications--Yuanyuan (YY) Zhou (21-26) Green Clouds: The Next Frontier--Parthasarathy Ranganathan (27-38) ENGINEERING AND MUSIC (39-40) Introduction--Daniel Ellis and Youngmoo Kim (41-42) Very Large Scale Music Understanding--Brian Whitman (43-46) Doing It Wrong--Douglas Repetto (47-50) Digital Instrument Building and the Laptop Orchestra--Daniel Trueman (51-60) Demystifying Music and Its Performance--Elaine Chew (61-72) AUTONOMOUS AEROSPACE SYSTEMS (73-74) Introduction--Michel Ingham and Jack Langelaan (75-76) Intelligent Autonomy in Robotic Systems--Mark Campbell (77-88) Challenges and Opportunities for Autonomous Systems in Space--Chad R. Frost (89-102) Health Awareness in Systems of Multiple Autonomous Aerospace Vehicles--Stefan Bieniawski (103-110) Certifiable Autonomous Flight Management for Unmanned Aircraft Systems--Ella M. Atkins (111-124) ENGINEERING INSPIRED BY BIOLOGY (125-126) Introduction--Mark Byrne and Babak Parviz (127-128) The Current Status and Future Outlook for Genomic Technologies--Mostafa Ronaghi and Jeffrey Fisher (129-138) Engineering Biomimetic Peptides for Targeted Drug Delivery--Efrosini Kokkoli (139-148) Autonomous Systems and Synthetic Biology--Henry Hess (149-158) APPENDIXES (159-160) Contributors (161-164) Program (165-168) Participants (169-178)

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Frontiers of Engineering: Reports on Leading-Edge Engineering from the 2010 Symposium Introduction ALI R. BUTT Virginia Tech DILMA DA SILVA IBM Research Cloud computing is emerging as a disruptive technology that will change the way users, especially scientists and engineers, design, develop, deploy, use, and disseminate their applications and data. By decoupling lower-level computer system details from application development, and freeing users to focus on their technical and scientific missions, cloud computing is likely to have a profound impact on our lives. Computer-based simulations and applications are considered a “third-pillar” of scientific discovery, which complements the traditional pillars of theory and experimentation. Currently, these simulations and applications, which require significant investment in the acquisition and maintenance of system infrastructure, are used only by seasoned computer scientists. Cloud computing promises to lower the entry barrier and allow for the easy integration of knowledge gained from scientific observation and for predictions of future responses or outcomes. The speakers in this session highlight some recent advances in technologies that are shaping the modern cloud-computing paradigm. Their talks cover a wide range of “cloud aspects,” from designing innovative computer systems to how such systems can be used and configured in an energy-efficient way. Armando Fox (UC-Berkeley) begins with an overview of how next-generation clouds should look. Based on user feedback and a survey of requirements, he discusses the major trends as computer scientists work toward realizing future clouds and making them amenable to wide-scale use and adaptation, enabling the democratization of supercomputing. Next, Luiz Andre Barroso (Google) describes the basics of cloud computing—how such systems are realized, the challenges to providing transparent interfaces to users while maintaining unfathomable scale,

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Frontiers of Engineering: Reports on Leading-Edge Engineering from the 2010 Symposium and support for user applications in a seamless, world-wide “supercomputer” (i.e., the cloud). In the third talk, YY Zhou (UC-San Diego) describes the challenges of building robust applications in the cloud. Finally, Parthasarathy Ranganathan (HP Labs) describes the environmental and energy implications of using hundreds of thousands of computing nodes at a central location. He also discusses how building architecture and software design can be done in ways that reduce the carbon footprint of the supporting cloud infrastructure.