Critical Data Grid Computing and Application for Managing Large Scales Data
Resources and Information Effectively in Distributed Environment
Assoc. Prof Dr Noraziah Ahmad
-Faculty of Computer Systems & Software Engineering, University Malaysia Pahang-
Urgent requirement to obtain solutions for managing the critical data and application
effectively, due large scales data resources and information in distributed environment.
Data replication is one of the key components in data grid architecture as it enhances data
access and reliability. Data grid deals with the efficient transaction management,
placement and replication of large amounts of data. Synchronous replication can be
categorized into several schemes, i.e., all data to all sites (full replication), all data to some
sites and some data to all sites. In addition, question has been raised, is it Cloud
Computing is just a new name for Grid? There is a common need to be able to manage
large facilities. Due to the scalability issue and relevant to these scenarios, researcher
becomes concern on what will happen in the event of disaster, how to manage when the
server receive too many transactions, overloaded and impact the bottleneck of the system.
The ability to preserve the delivery of expected services despite the presence of
fault-caused errors within system itself called fault tolerance. Organizations need to
provide current data to users who may be geographically remote and request distributed
data around multiple sites in data grid. The challenges will be faced to those who design,
maintain and manage the data grid is in ensuring the efficient access of replicated data to
such a huge network and widely distributed.
This talk covers on the following issues:
1.
Managing large scale data resources in distributed database environment.
2.
Data Infrastructure - synchronous versus asynchronous replication model.
3.
Strict semantic and critical data using Binary Vote Assignment Grid (BVAG) model.
The implementation of this scientific BVAG is currently financial supported by
research funds/external grants under Fundamental Research Grant Scheme
(FRGS), Exploratory Research Grant Scheme (ERGS), and Special Top/Down
FRGS Grants (Best 2010 Fundamental Research Grant Scheme Project Output)
by Ministry of Education Malaysia. BVAG also won the National Intellectual
Property Awards 2014 by Intellectual Property Corporation of Malaysia (MyIPO),
Ministry of Trade and Industry Malaysia.
4.
Example case study using artefact social research networking eco-system for
Malaysian Greater Research Network (MyGRANTS), sub-project under database
research group using BVAGQ-AR.
5.
Future projects and way forwards @ invitation collaboration projects includes
research projects related to data mining, disaster recovery, load balancing, cloud
computing and etc. - sharing some suggestions by Best 2010 Fundamental
Research Grant Scheme Awards judges; National IP Awards 2014 judges; and
research exhibition competition MTE2014 judges.
BIOGRAPHY:
Noraziah Ahmad was born on 1980. She has received PhD Comp Sc. (Database) and
currently is appointed as Associate Professor in Faculty of Computer Systems & Software
Engineering, University Malaysia Pahang. She has published more than 200 papers
(including International and national journals, conference papers, book chapters and
articles). She has supervises 20 postgraduate students, with 8 postgraduate students have
been graduated. Besides, she also serving to 240 committee members in conferences and
reviewer of proceedings and journal; she is currently the members in professional societies
include SDIWC, IEEE, IAENG, IACSIT, IDES and MNCC. Her current research interests
are distributed database systems, data grid, data mining, Cloud Computing, modelling and
simulation, and biofeedback.
Assoc Prof Dr Noraziah Ahmad has received 100 awards and recognitions in International
and National, which 8 awards include the Gold Medal and Special Awards such Diploma
De Merit, The Best Excellence, Grand Prix Archimedes Moskova 2013 in Moscow
International Salon of Inventions and Innovation Technologies (ARCHIMEDES 2013),
Gold Medal in 12th Malaysia Technology Expo (MTE2013) with invention title “Effective
Persistence Layer Synchronous Replication for Heterogeneous Distributed Database
Environment.” In Feb 2014, she joined the research exhibition competition in 13th Malaysia
Technology Expo (MTE2014), with the invention title “Preserving Data Imputation
Consistency of Distributed Database using BVAG-AR Replication System”. This project
won the Gold Medal in MTE2014, and has been selected to join the research competition
in Seoul International Invention Fair (SIIF2014) 2014 on Nov 2014. Recently, she received
the Special Top/Down FRGS Grants on March 2014, due to outperform of Best 2010
Fundamental Research Grant Scheme Project Output. This is the ONLY project selected
by Higher Educational Department, Ministry of Higher Education Malaysia under
Technology and Communication Cluster in 2013-2014, out of 100 nominated/presented
for FRGS Best Award 2010. She was also selected to be the Winner for National
Intellectual Property Award 2014 on June 2014. Her project has been shortlisted among
other 7 finalist under Copyright Category by Intellectual Property Corporation of Malaysia
(MyIPO), Ministry of Trade and Industry Malaysia.
-LAST UPDATED ON 12/8/2014-