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A Canadian Testbed for SmartCities
The dramatic trend of the first decade of the 21st century in the information technology industry was the
emergence of society?scale systems: online services such as Google, eBay, iTunes, Yahoo!, Twitter, and Facebook
that routinely served millions of simultaneously?connected users. These systems gave rise to entirely new
programming models and systems problems: management of the data center as a single, unified, “warehousescale”
computer, each of which had more raw computing power than existed on the planet as late as 1990;
programming models for loosely?coupled, data?intensive parallel operations; vast, highly?efficient distributed data
stores; the re?emergence of virtualization of time, space, and computing, to permit services to migrate instantly
around the globe, and radically new notions in networking to support the new programming and management
models. The way to explore these issues – networking, sensors, data management, the computational cloud…
Faculty Supervisor:
Yvonne Coady
Student:
Partner:
Barrodale Computing Services Ltd;Hewlett-Packard (USA) Ltd
Discipline:
Computer science
Sector:
Professional, scientific and technical services
University:
University of Victoria
Program:
Accelerate
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