Abstract :
Summary form only given, as follows. While digital device and digital information become immersive, internet computing as a discipline is at a turning point. Modern computing and communication systems are unprecedented powerful and, in the meantime, unprecedented complex. On one hand, new computing paradigms, such as cloud computing, internet of things, cyberinfrastructure, and data centric computing, continue emerging to utilize technological advances. On the other hand, timely challenges, such as reliability, security, power consumption, and coordination and consistency, have to be addressed to meet the ever increasing user demand. High performance computing (HPC) is moving from Peta-flops era to Exa-scale era. How the changing will influence data center based distributed computing, and vice visa. We are at a historical point to ask: what are the challenges and opportunities of HPC-based distributed systems? This is especially true for Far East, where China just historically reached the first place on the HPC top500 list and launched a unique program in Internet of Things. This panel invites outstanding leaders around the world to explore deliberations regarding the strategic value of HPC-based distributed systems and discuss disruptive technologies and innovations most likely to overturn today?s internet computing landscape. A record of the panel discussion was not made available for publication as part of the conference proceedings.
