BIO
Dr. Pratap Pattnaik is an IBM Fellow, and is currently the Senior Manager of the Scalable Systems group in the IBM Research Division. Over the past ten years, he and his team have developed a number of key technologies for IBM's high end Servers.
His current research work includes the development and design of computer systems, including system and processor hardware, operating systems and autonomic components for IBM's UNIX and mainframe Servers. In the past he has worked in the field of parallel algorithms for Molecular Dynamics, solutions of linear systems, Quantum Monte Carlo and theory of High Temperature Superconductivity, communication subsystems, fault management subsystems, etc. He also has over ten years of research experience in various aspects of integrated circuit design and fabrication, silicon processing, and condensed matter theory.

ABSTRACT
Over past few years the, information technology (IT) has played a key role in the world economy and in up lifting many peoples from a life of poverty. This talk will briefly discuss some of these recent developments in the IT and how it affects the entire stack (Hardware, software, algorithms, and operations). It will give an example of how the changes permeate in to details of the processor micro architecture. Also it will touch on the opportunities to create a Smarter Planet that will significantly improve the yield per unit of resource consumed (i.e. value to mankind). It is already happening, at a moderate scale, at various isolated areas around the globe. The driving force behind it is our ability to faithfully represent a large amount physical events & data in high fidelity digital form. It is ushering a new phase for mankind like the Industrial revolution did by improving the production per unit of labor, through the deployment of and advances in mechanical & electrical technology. The talk will identify some of areas of research needed in support of smarter planet path.