Intelligent infrastructure

Intelligent infrastructure

Research opportunities and challenges

Intelligent Infrastructure describes the design of smarter, more secure enterprise computing devices, networks, and storage using scalable architectures that work together, connecting individuals and businesses to an exponentially expanding array of dynamic content and services.

Modern enterprises create and process information at ever-expanding volume and accelerating rates. Today’s infrastructure, built on old protocols, is strained by enterprise requirements to support bandwidth-hungry applications, mobility, security, and manageability. Infrastructure elements requiring innovation include:

  • Computing architectures based on parallel computing, in which every processor chip has multiple CPU cores, requiring a new generation of software applications and firmware to exploit the new technology.
  • Networks must scale to support datacenter growth. This drives demand for a robust, programmable wired and wireless network platform that makes the introduction of new features quick, easy and cost-effective.
  • Storage must become capable of self-management and meet all the demands of the next generation enterprise computing infrastructure.
In addition, nanotechnology has the potential to revolutionize the way data is collected, stored and transmitted, with the potential to provide higher-density, lower-power, higher-bandwidth systems.

» Exascale Computing Lab

Build compute fabrics for next-generation IT solutions utilizing a cross-layer, inter-disciplinary approach across conventional divisions.

 

» Information and Quantum Systems Lab

Create technologies for a new information ecosystem: a trillion nanoscale sensors and actuators embedded in the environment.

 

» Storage and Information Management Platforms Lab

Research and build platforms and services to create, host, manage and provide the next generation of storage and information sources and services for enterprise and user-controlled information.

 

» Multimedia Communications and Networking Lab

Create compelling networked media experiences that fundamentally change how people communicate, collaborate, socialize and entertain.