Dr. LI Tao of University of Florida was invited to visit School of Computer Science and Technology of USTC on 6 May 2013, and gave a lecture in the academic hall of the school this afternoon. Prof. CHEN Enhong chaired the lecture.
In the lecture entitled “Towards Renewable Energy Powered Sustainable and High-Performance Cloud Datacenters”, Dr. LI first analyzed the trend and feasibility of powering cloud data centers with renewable energy. The uncertainty in the generation of renewable energy and the load complexity posed challenges in reliability, usability, and performance of data centers. Also, how to ensure the quality of management and scheduling of high-efficiency loads for data centers with renewable energy became a pressing issue. Dr. LI’s work, the unification of distributed energy production based on smart grids, ongoing batteries, and server load, had achieved this.
Dr. LI Tao, an associate professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Florida and also the founder of Intelligent Design of Efficient Architectures Lab (IDEAL), received a Ph.D. in computer engineering from the University of Texas at Austin and accepted the invitation of School of Computer Science and Technology of USTC as the visiting professor in 2013. His research interests include computer architecture, virtualization, energy-efficient, sustainable and dependable data center, cloud computing platforms, the impacts of emerging technologies and applications on computing, and evaluation of computer systems. Dr. LI had gone into some original work in high-performance computing with renewable energy, and co-authored a paper that won the Best Paper Award in HPCA 2011.
