Grid Asia 2007

International Collaboration Track


SGF Round Table Discussion (Invitation Only)
Monday, 4 June
1400
Welcome
by Prof. Lawrence Wong (President, SGF)
1405
Welcome
by Mark Linesh (President, Open Grid Forum)
1410
Self-introduction of Participants & their Organizations
1430
"Overview of OGF and Affiliate Program"
by Mark Linesh (President, OGF)
1500

Discussion on Promoting GFs in the Asia Pacific
(such as Objectivies, Approaches, Membership, Initiatives and Programs, and Action Items)

1730
Wrap-Up & Closing Remarks

APEC TEL Grid Experts Committee Meeting (Invitation Only)
Tuesday, 5 June

Time: 0900 - 1730 hours
Place: Level 3, The Matrix @ Biopolis
URL: http://gridasia.ngp.org.sg/2007

Programme

  1. Welcome & Introduction
    • Purpose
    • Desired outcomes
    • Expected deliverables
  2. Project Proposal 1 - Data Grid for Archival of Digital Assets (Facilitator: Singapore)
  3. Project Proposal 2 - Access Grid for Distance Learning (Facilitator: Singapore)
  4. Project Proposal 3 - Geo-Science Grid (Facilitator: Chinese Taipei)
  5. Project Proposal 4 - PC Grids (Facilitator: Korea)
  6. Other proposals
  7. Any Other Business

Logistics

We will use a VTC room for this day-long meeting. We will also cater coffee/tea breaks, lunch and invite the participants to attend the evening reception. There is no charge for participation, though the participants will have to underwrite their own air travel, local transport, accommodation, and other expenses.

Hotels

The participants are encouraged to use Grand Plaza Park Hotel City Hall (one of the several GridAsia 2007 hotels), which provides daily shuttle service to and from the Biopolis.

Attending GridAsia 2007

Though the primary purpose is the APEC TEL Grid Meeting, the participants are welcome to attended the GridAsia 2007 events. Most of these events are free, except for some which are organized separately and are co-located with GridAsia 2007. They can register for this event via the online registration form.


Grids Around Asia
Wednesday, 6 June

Chair: Dr. Lee Hing Yan (National Grid Office)
1030-1100

The APAC Grid Program - Building a National Grid for Australia
by A/Prof. Andrew Rohl (iVec, Australia)
1100-1130 ASEAN Science & Technology Research & Education Network Alliance
by Dr. Saiful Husain (Universiti Brunei Darussalam, Brunei)
1130-1200 ChinaGrid: National Education and Research Cyber-infrastructure in China
by Prof. Hai Jin (Huazhong Science & Technology University, China)
1200-1230 Grids in Japan
by Satoshi Sekiguchi (Advanced Industrial Science & Technology, Japan)

 
  Chair: Jon Lau (National Grid Office)
1415-1445 Vision for Building a Cyber-infrastructure in Korea
by Dr. Jongsuk Ruth Lee (KISTI, Korea)
1445-1510 Grid in Malaysia - 1
by A/Prof. Suhaimi Napis (Universiti Putra Malaysia, Malaysia)
1510-1530 Grid @ MIMOS
by Luke Jingyuan (MIMOS)

 
  Chair: Dr. Lee Hing Yan (National Grid Office)
1600-1630 Philippine e-Science Grid Program
by Rey Vincent Babilonia (Advanced S&T Institute, Philippines)
1630-1700 Grids in Taiwan - 1
by Dr. Simon Lin (Academic Sinica Grid Center, Taiwan)
1700-1730 Grids in Taiwan - 2
by Dr. Fang-Pang Lin (NCHC,Taiwan)
1730-1800 Driving Innovation with a National Grid Infrastructure
by Dr. Putchong Uthayopas (Thai National Grid Project, Thailand)

UK-Singapore Partnership in Science Workshop on eScience & Grid Computing
Thursday 7 June
  Chair: Dr. Lee Hing Yan (National Grid Office)
0945-1000 Overview of UK-Singapore Partners in Science Programme
by Brian Ferrar (British High Commission in Singapore)
1000-1030 TBA
by Prof. Yike Guo (Imperial College, UK)

 
  Chair: Dr. Lee Hing Yan (NGO)
1100-1130 The Expo Ontology: Describing Scientific Experiments
by Prof. Ross D King (University of Wales, Aberystwyth, UK)
1130-1200 TBA
by Dr. Tom Oinn (European Bioinformatics Institute, UK)
1200-1230 Classifying Proteins with myExperiment: myOntology
by Dr. Robert Stevens (University of Manchester, UK)

 
  Chair: A/Prof. Tan Tin Wee (National University of Singapore)
1400-1430 TBA
by Prof. David De Roure (University of Southampton, UK)
1430-1500 The Grid Service Market: Economics of the Next Generation Internet and Grid
by Dr. Colin Richardson (Imperial College, UK)
1500-1530 Discussion

EGEE Asia Federation Meeting
Thursday, 7 June

1. Welcome & Introduction
2. EGEE Application and Collaboration
3. Call for Participation: Drug Analysis
4. Overview of ASGC Services
5. Discussion


Gelato Meeting
Friday, 8 June
Chair: Jon Lau (National Grid Office)
0945-1035 Welcome & Overview of Itanium's Market position, and Gelato Federation's Role to Advance Itanium
by Dr. Mark Smith (Gelato Federation, USA)
 
  Chair: Dr. Mark Smith (Gelato Federation, USA)
1100-1130 Preparing for LHC Turn-on--ALICE in Grid-land
by Prof. Lawrence Pinsky (University of Houston, USA)
1130-1200 Itanium and Grid Computing - A Vendor's Perspective
by Jeff Adie (SGI Asia Pacific)
1200-1230 Infomediation and Markets in Transition
by Kumaran Pillai (Protege Software Pte Ltd)

 


Organized byAgency for Science, Technology and Research Infocomm Development Authority of SingaporeNational Grid Nanyang Technological University National University of SingaporeSingapore Grid ForumSingapore Management University
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