An Intelligent IT Infrastructure for the Future

Prith Banerjee

Senior Vice President of Research at Hewlett-Packard, and Director of HP Labs

ABSTRACT

An intelligent IT Infrastructure will deliver extremely high performance, adaptability and security to users in the future. Building on the advancements in utility computing, smart data centers, automation, virtualization and intelligent networks, Hewlett Packard Labs is positioning itself to redefine datacenters, networks, software and devices. This talk will provide an overview of research being performed at HP Labs on four areas that will enable an Intelligent Infrastructure : Computing, storage, networking and nanotechnology.

1) We're helping transition computing to exascale computing, in which every processor chip has multiple CPU cores, and a new generation of software puts these parallel processes to good use;

2) We're building a cloud-scale, intelligent storage system that is self-managed and enterprise-grade;

3) A programmable wired and wireless network platform will make the introduction of new features quick, easy and cost-effective;

4) And breakthroughs in nanotechnology are going to revolutionize the way data is collected, stored and transmitted, using technologies such as the memristor and photonic interconnects.

BIO

Prith Banerjee is senior vice president of research at HP and director of HP Labs, the company's central research organization. In these roles, he assists the HP executive vice president of strategy and technology in charting technical strategies for the company, and he heads HP Labs, which has seven locations worldwide. Most recently, Banerjee was dean of the College of Engineering at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He also is the founder, chairman and chief scientist of BINACHIP Inc., a developer of products and services in electronic design automation. Previously, Banerjee was the Walter P. Murphy Professor and chairman of electrical and computer engineering at Northwestern University. Prior to that, he was the director of the Computational Science and Engineering program and professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. In 2000, Banerjee founded AccelChip Inc., a developer of products and services for electronic design automation, which was sold to Xilinx Inc. in 2006. Banerjee's research interests are in very-large-scale integration (VLSI) computer-aided design, parallel computing and compilers, and he is the author of about 300 research papers in these areas. Banerjee is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Association for Computing Machinery and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers and a recipient of the 1996 American Society for Engineering Education Terman Award and the 1987 National Science Foundation Presidential Young Investigator Award. He received a Bachelor of Technology in electronics and electrical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology in Kharagpur, India, and a Master of Science and Ph.D. in electrical engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.