Multi-Scale Computing: the greatest challenge for this decade? Open Directions for Research and Innovation

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Multi-Scale Computing the greatest challenge for
this decade? Open Directions for Research and
Innovation
Lionel Brunie National Institute of Applied
Sciences (INSA) LIRIS Laboratory/DRIM Team UMR
CNRS 5205 Lyon, France http//liris.cnrs.fr/lione
l.brunie
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Top 10 Trends IEEE, 2013

• Internet of Things
• Cybersecurity
• Big Data Visualization
• Cloud Computing in Science and Engineering
• Mobile Computing Meets the Cloud
• Internet Censorship and Control
• Interactive Public Displays
• Next-Generation Mobile Computing
• 3D Imaging Techniques and Multimedia Applications
• Safety-Critical Systems The Next Generation

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Life / Hype Cycle of Emerging Technologies
http//postscapes.com/internet-of-things-history
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From a Multiplicity of Technologies to a Mix of
Technologies

• Internet of Things
• Mobile devices
• P2P
• Clouds
• Supercomputers
• MANETs / VANETs / Opnets / DTNs /
• SOA
• But a single user!
• The frontier integrating separate digital
  ecosystems into a single user-centric digital
  ecosystem

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Some key elements for the future

• Mobility / Ubiquity of the user
• Collaborative distributed systems (clouds, grids,
  P2P)
• Things, smart objects and the Internet of Things
• Heavy data and processing loads
• Need for semantics
• Open environments
• User-centricity, context-awareness, and content
  adaptation
• Security and privacy

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A Mix of Technologies

• Ubiquity is provided by mobile devices and mobile
  networks
• Grids and clouds bring their infrastructure and
  their resources
• Things bring the context
• Recipe mix all these ingredients
• Approaches to mixing
• standards
• collaboration protocols
• services and SOA
• autonomous organization
• focus on user intention!

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Pervasive Grid/Cloud (Contd) / Multi-Scale
Computing?

• Examples of candidate applications
• Personal healthcare sensors at home medical
  records at a health center smart devices
  (phone, TV) a private cloud to process the
  data
• Crisis management sensors GIS (gridified -
  cloudified) DBs/data stores computing
  grid/cloud mobile devices
• Patient care a physician (at his office, during
  visits, at the hospital) just needs the
  information, wherever she/he is, wherever the
  requested information is stored, whoever the
  patient is gt local health network grid
  distributed patient data (inter-)national
  health grids interconnection (with secure access)
  data adaptation (e.g. PDA, laptop) medical
  sensors adaptive HMI

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Multi-Scale Computing some Open Issues

• Security, Privacy, Trust, Identity
• Interconnection and Interoperability Routing and
  Dissemination Protocols
• Data Interoperability and Mediation
• Data Integration
• Data Indexing and Searching
• Data Precision
• Data and Application Adaptation
• Fault Tolerance
• Service Composition
• Social Computing

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Bring your Creativity and enthusiasm!