Moving to a New World: To keep what we’ve had or to start anew
SPEAKER Prof Sam H NOH
Professor
School of Electrical & Computer Engineering
Ulsan National Institute of Science &
Technology
Korea
DATE 19 January 2016 (Tuesday)
TIME 10:00 am - 11:00 am
VENUE CS Seminar Room, Y6405, 6th Floor
Yellow Zone, Academic 1
City University of Hong Kong
83 Tat Chee Avenue
Kowloon Tong
ABSTRACT
We are in the midst of a dramatic change in what computer systems look like. Our traditional view of
computer systems composed of the CPU, main memory, and very slow storage device has recently
been challenged with the advent of SSDs. Today, with the advent of nonvolatile memory, we are,
possibly, anticipating an even more dramatic change in what computers of the future will look like.
Such anticipated changes raise the question on how operating systems and their major components
that, by nature, run on these systems will have to adapt to accommodate these changes. Should we
continue to adapt and evolve the system that was designed 40-50 years ago based on our traditional
view of computers, or should we start anew? Though I do not have the answer to this question, in this
talk, I will share some of our experience on this topic based on some very initial studies that we have
conducted.
BIOGRAPHY
Sam H (Hyuk) Noh received the BS degree in computer engineering from the Seoul National University,
Seoul, Korea, in 1986, and the PhD degree from the Department of Computer Science, University of
Maryland, College Park, MD, in 1993. He held a visiting faculty position at the George Washington
University, Washington, DC, from 1993 to 1994 before joining Hongik University, Seoul, Korea, where he
was a professor in the School of Computer and Information Engineering until the Spring of 2015.
Starting from the Fall of 2015 he joined the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at UNIST (Ulsan
National Institute of Science and Technology) where he is a Professor. From August 2001 to August
2002, he was also a visiting associate professor with the University of Maryland Institute of Advanced
Computer Studies (UMIACS), College Park, MD.
He has also served or serves as General Chair, Program Chair, and Program Committee Member on a
number of technical conferences and workshops. Most recently, he was General Chair of the ACM
LCTES 2015, PC member for USENIX FAST from 2013 to 2016, and HotStorage in 2015. He is currently the
PC Chair for HotStorage 2016, a member of the PC for ACM ASPLOS 2016 and USENIX OSDI 2016. He
also serves as Associate Editor of the ACM Transactions on Storage. His current research interests
include operating system issues pertaining to embedded/computer systems with a focus on the use of
new memory technologies such as flash memory and persistent memory. He is a member of the ACM,
IEEE, USENIX, and KIISE.
All are welcome!
In case of questions, please contact Dr Jason Xue at Tel: 3442 9815, E-mail: jasonxue@cityu.edu.hk, or visit the CS
Departmental Seminar Web at http://www.cs.cityu.edu.hk/news/seminars/seminars.html.