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Future Computing Group
Key Aims
Future Computing Research targets the next generation computing paradigms and their applications. The group has been working on Grid/Cloud Computing (Internet II), Green Computing, and Virtual Computing for many years. One of our projects, a developed Grid/Cloud Computing platform conforms to the Internet standard and can universally accelerate Office/Database/Web/Media applications by a factor up to ten. This work won an ACM/IEEE Super Computing Finalist Award.
The Group's other important work is on environment-friendly Green Computing through utilizing a revolutionary element - memristor. Most recently, the Group has discovered that memristor has a peculiar effect (they named it "delayed switching" in an IEEE paper). It is demonstrated that power-saving memristors can be packed at least twice as densely as semiconductors, achieving a significant breakthrough in computer storage density.
Areas of Research Activity
Research grants associated with members of this group are available. Members are engaged in the following areas of research (research areas in more detail) .
| * | Future Computing | * | Grid/Cloud Computing (Internet II) |
| * | Green Computing (through utilizing memristor) | * | Virtual Computing |
| * | e-Science & e-Engineering | * | Data Storage & Data Communication |
| * | Data Mining and Data Warehousing | * | Biologically-inspired Computing |
Some suggestions of possible postgraduate research projects are also available.