HP Labs Singapore

Francis Lee, Director of the Service Platform Lab, Professor at NTU

HP Labs has 7 global labs and about 600 staff.

Main areas of research are:

• Digital commercial print: low cost, high quality
• Content transformation: paper to digital, next gen displays
• Immersive interaction: HCI, digital collaboration
• Information management: database, business intelligence
• Analytics: security, operations, personalization
• Sustainability: data centers
• Cloud computing: enterprise, social, cloud services
• Intelligent infrastructure: storage, networking

Focus of Singapore lab is in Cloud Computing.

Two labs: Service Platform Lab, Appliced Cloud Computing Service Lab

Layers of the cloud: infrastructure (EC2), platform (GAE), software (Salesforce)

Projects undertaken by HP Labs Singapore.

Model-based Service Integration Environment aka Cloud dashboard. Provides a single console to interface with several different IaaS providers.

Cells as a Service.

Industrial postgraduate programme

• 4 years
• by default no bond but company may impose
• Singapore citizens or PR

Projects at HP Labs Singapore (HPLS)

• contain log data size growth in cloud computing

  • current approach is compression and archival systems

• capturing cloud-scale snapshots

  • no available method

• discover social intelligence from large-scale data in the prescence of high

• noise with real-time response (influencer identification)

• consistency reasoning framework in cloud

  • consistency semantics, optimization engine

• explorative visualisation techniques for big data

• dynamic optimization of cloud applications for resilience in PaaS

  • real-time performance

• multi-tenancy support in Database as a Service (DaaS)

• a framework for rich mobile applications

  • issues: offline use, rich functionality, easy of development
  • workflow model for mobile cloud apps
  • mobile cloud transport protocol
  • efficient and economically-viable mobile-cloud system
  • when to do computation on the phone or send it to the cloud for
  • processing

• software versioning in the cloud