SoulPad: Personalized Computing with Minimal Infrastructure
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Date: 01-19-2005
Start Time:
2:00pm
End Time: 3:00pm
Speaker: Ramon Caceres
From:
IBM Research
Location: CEPSR Interschool Lab
Hosted by:
Distributed Network Analysis (DNA) Lab
The ability to walk up to any computer, personalize it, and use it as one's own has long been a goal of mobile computing research. This talk presents SoulPad, a new approach based on carrying an auto-configuring operating system along with a suspended virtual machine on a small portable device. With this approach, the computer boots from the device and resumes the virtual machine, thus giving the user access to her personal environment, including previously running computations. SoulPad has minimal infrastructure requirements and is therefore applicable to a wide range of conditions, particularly in developing countries. This talk reports on experience implementing SoulPad and using it on a variety of hardware configurations.
This is joint work with Casey Carter, Chandra Narayanaswami, and Mandayam Raghunath.