"Emerging Systems for Operating Data Centers"

Sven Graupner
Hewlett-Packard Laboratories
Palo Alto, California, USA


This talk first motivates the emergence of a class of systems that is
automating the operation of data center environments in commercial
enterprises. The talk then introduces to a research prototype of such a
system developed at HP Labs.

Similarly like "machine" operating systems perform tasks of resource
management and run-time control, those tasks must be performed in data
centers. But they are mainly manual today with operating systems yet
to emerge. However, increasing automation in data center operation will
lead to a new quality of integrated management systems, a new category
of operating systems.
Basic techniques are similar such as resource scheduling, process control,
or virtualization, yet they apply to a different (significantly coarser)
granularity of resources and applications. Other issues occur such as
capacity planning that have not been considered in operating systems.

The talk concludes with a discussion of implications those systems will
have on how IT solutions will be built and operated, significantly deeper
based on formal descriptions and techniques. They will enable introducing
design tools into the creating IT solutions, like those tools have emerged
in other industries before such as circuit design and lead to a substantial
increase in productivity and scale of systems.


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Bio:
Dr. Sven Graupner is a Senior Scientist at HP Labs, Palo Alto, California.
At HP Labs, he has had leading roles in several technologies: E-Speak,
an early web services middleware in the late 90's, System Factory, a
design tool for large-scale services networks, Topology Designer, a tool
that introduced formal design methods in the creation of IT solutions,
and recently QM, an adaptive data center automation system.

He is also engaged in applying emerging Grid technology to commercial data
center environments. He defined the technical underpinning of HP's Enterprise
Grid strategy and created the first Grid standards-based control interface
for a commercial data center product.

He holds a Ph.D. in Operating Systems from Chemnitz University of Technology,
Germany (1997). He has authored over 50 publications and recently co-authored
a book: "Web Services in the Enterprise: Concepts, Standards and Management"
(to be published by Springer later in 2004).

He is member of the Steering Committee and PC Vice Chair of CCGrid’2005. He
is invited to panels and chaired workshops at international conferences.
He has filed patents in areas of enterprise management, large-scale system
management and utility computing.
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