December 2022

Dr. Rama Govindaraju, Director of Engineering at Google gave a talk on Planet Scale Computing Infrastructure – Challenges and Opportunities  on 12 December. 

A brief summary of  Dr. Rama Govindaraju’s  talk in his words: 

There are at least a dozen applications from Google that are used by over a billion users worldwide regularly. We will discuss a sketch of how a Planet Scale Computing Infrastructure was architected and designed by Google to enable billions of users worldwide seamless access to these critical services. We will discuss the organizational sketch, and what we have learned from the experience of developing a Planet Scale Computing infrastructure. We will outline the key challenges and opportunities we see going forward that will need critical and broad innovation to ensure that an affordable computing infrastructure continues to be available to users. We will make the case that addressing these challenges to enable the large class of emerging applications and disruptions that we envision in an AI/ML driven technology landscape is the need of the hour.

Dr. Rama Govindaraju is a Director of Engineering at Google where he leads the Systems Infrastructure Architecture team. Prior to that  Dr. Govindaraju was a Distinguished Engineer at IBM responsible for leading the Software Architecture at IBM’s Supercomputing Lab where he led the development of 5 generations of supercomputers. Dr. Govindaraju received his MS and Ph.D in Computer Science from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in New York and BE in Computer Science from BIT Mesra, Ranchi.