The elasticity of cloud resources, global-on-demand availability, and the transfer of capital and operating costs to the cloud operator, are some of the compelling reasons to pursue a cloud deployment and allow institutions to focus on their raison-d’être. This paradigm shift in computing is irresistible, explaining why high technology companies are laser-focused on cloud deployment. However, for science and engineering problems, the potential and procedures for cloud computing are not obvious. One reason for this is the high data dependencies, when compared, for example, with search algorithms or typical enterprise resource simulations. Furthermore, highly complex, coupled, nonlinear partial differential equations have to be solved. The historical high-performance computing (HPC) procedures employed for these kinds of problems have not been cast in a cloud computing framework before. This talk will discuss pioneering work by the speaker and his colleagues on combining standard cloud computing procedures with HPC in science and engineering. One resulting cloud application will be demonstrated live, using several high-speed aerospace applications, including an aerodynamic analysis over complete Boeing 747-200 aircraft. Problem set up, analysis, and three-dimensional visualizations on the cloud will be demonstrated (in Beijing, China) on a server farm located in New York, USA.

Dr. Ladeinde received a B.Sc. degree (First Class Honours) from the Faculty of Technology, University of Ibadan in 1979. He also received a Master of Science degree (1984), Master of Engineering degree (Mechanical Engineering, 1986), and a Ph.D. degree (Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, 1988), all from Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, USA. After his Ph.D. program, he worked for three years as a full-time high-performance computing (HPC) software developer in Indianapolis, Indiana, USA. He joined the Stony Brook University in New York in 1991 as an Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering, where he has since been promoted and tenured. Dr. Ladeinde’s areas of research include fluid dynamics and aerospace engineering, high-energy physics, software engineering, and high-performance computing (HPC). He is a visiting professor and a faculty fellow of the United States (U.S.) Air Force and the U.S. National Research Council (NRC), and a visiting scientist at the U.S. Department of Energy Brookhaven National Laboratory. Dr. Ladeinde is a Life Member and an Associate Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) and has for two terms chaired the External Review Board of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Center for Aerospace Research at North Carolina A&T University, Greensboro, NC, USA. He consults for many major U.S. Defense companies, has produced over 172 publications in internationally-recognized archival journals and peer-reviewed conference proceedings. He was the PI or Co-PI of grants and contracts totaling over US$20 million. Dr. Ladeinde is an Associate Editor of the prestigious AIAA Journal, the flagship journal of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics. Dr. Ladeinde’s paper on scramjets won the 2010 AIAA Best Paper Award. He is a member of the Nigerian Computer Society and a weekly columnist on IT/ICT for the Daily Trust newspaper.