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Planet Scale Computing Infrastructure - Challenges and Opportunities

Series: Big Data Public Lecture Series

Speaker: Dr. Rama Govindaraju Director of Engineering, Google

Date/Time: Dec 20 15:00:00

Location: CSA Seminar Hall (Room No. 254, First Floor)

Abstract:
There are at least a dozen applications from Google that are used by over a billion users worldwide regularly. We will discuss a sketch of how a Planet Scale Computing Infrastructure was architected and designed by Google to enable billions of users worldwide seamless access to these services. We will discuss the organizational sketch, and what we have learned from the experience of developing a Planet Scale Computing infrastructure. We will outline the key challenges and opportunities we see going forward that will need critical and broad innovation to ensure that an affordable computing infrastructure continues to be available to users. We will make the case that addressing these challenges to enable the large class of emerging applications and disruptions that we envision in an AI/ML driven technology landscape is the need of the hour.

Speaker Bio:
Rama is a Director of Engineering at Google where he leads the Systems Infrastructure Architecture team. Before that Rama was a Distinguished Engineer at IBM responsible for leading the Software Architecture at IBM's Supercomputing Lab where he led the development of 5 generations of Supercomputers. Before that Rama received his MS and Phd in Computer Science from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in New York and BE in Computer Science from BIT Mesra, Ranchi, India.

Host Faculty: Arkaprava Basu