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Keynote
Address 1
Wednesday, 6 June, 0900hrs
"Grid
Adoption - Perspectives and Direction"
Speaker: Mark
Linesch (President,
Open Grid Forum)
Abstract
Grids are at the heart of an overall industry journey
- from statically bound application and resource
silos managed by manual processes to a new world
of shared, dynamically provisioned resources that
reliably delivers application services to users.
During this session, Open Grid Forum (OGF) President,
Mark Linesch, will discuss the state of grid adoption
around the world. He will describe the mission of
OGF in accelerating grid adoption and discuss key
areas of focus for the organization including the
important role the international community plays
in influencing OGF directions and standards.
Biodata
Mark Linesch
was named President/CEO of the Open Grid Forum (OGF)
in June 2006.The Open Grid Forum (OGF) was formed
from the recently announced merger of the Global
Grid Forum (GGF) and the Enterprise Grid Alliance
(EGA). The
Open Grid Forum is a non-profit consortium of business,
scientific and academic organizations and individuals
dedicated to accelerating the pervasive adoption
of grids worldwide. Prior
to this assignment, Linesch was Vice President for
the Adaptive Enterprise program, which is HP's
strategy for helping enterprise customers synchronize
business and IT to capitalize on change. Formerly
with Compaq, Linesch served as the Vice President
responsible for Internet, eCommerce and Infrastructure
solutions for Compaq's Enterprise and Service Provider
customers. With
more than 20 years in the industry, Mark has held
executive positions in strategic planning, business
development, product and solutions marketing, as
well as, solutions and software engineering. Originally
from Ohio, Linesch graduated with highest honors
from the University of Cincinnati and is a recipient
of the University of Cincinnati Scholarship Award
for academic excellence.
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Keynote
Address 2
Wednesday, 6 June, 1330hrs
"The Workflow Ecosystem: Why
Plumbing is Not Enough"
Speaker: Prof.
Carole Goble (University
of Manchester, United Kingdom)
Abstract
Workflows have
become the fashionable, de facto, mechanism
for linking together scientific resources, coordinating
and orchestrating services and scheduling jobs
over grids. A plethora of systems are available,
aimed at different layers of the software stack,
covering a spectrum of capabilities and catering
for a range of situations. These systems, including
our own workflow workbench, Taverna, are becoming
routinely used by scientists.
Workflows
are intended to ease the routine and repetitive
burden of plumbing together components. But just
enabling good plumbing is not enough. Ecosystems
of tools, methods, mechanisms and components surround
workflows, the scientific objects that accompany
them, their workflow systems and workflow e-Scientists'
that use them. The services orchestrated could
be third party "in the wild" and out of the workflow
environment's control. Tools are needed that support
the whole scientific method, including design,
discovery, and publication of workflows, their
components and the resources they flow work through.
A scientist should be able to mix and match workflows,
regardless of their host system, and straightforwardly
mash workflows onto their own applications. Workflows
are valuable knowledge assets in their own right,
to be pooled, shared and remixed as easily as citizens
share photos and videos on the Web. myExperiment,
for example, is our new initiative to create a
social networking site for encouraging workflow
workers to share and discuss scientific workflows
and their related scientific objects, and to harness
this social intelligence for the common good. Drawing
on my practical experiences from the myGrid/Taverna
and
myExperiment projects, I will explore
this workflow ecosystem, and in particular the
technical and social implications of releasing
workflows, and their outcomes, "into the cloud".
Biodata
Professor Carole
Goble is a full Professor at the University of
Manchester, UK. She co-leads the Information Management
Group of some 70+ researchers (http://img.cs.man.ac.uk).
Her research interests are in ontologies, the Semantic
Web and the Semantic Grid, and their application
to e-Science. She was one of the founding leaders
of the UK's e-Science activity, participating in
numerous e-Science project, most notably in the
Life Sciences. She is the Director of the myGrid
e-Science project (http://www.mygrid.org.uk),
which includes the popular Taverna Workflow Workbench
and a new initiative called myExperiment
(http://myexperiment.org),
a social network space for workflow exchange and
scientific gossip. She is the chair of the Open
Middleware Infrastructure Institute-UK (http://www.omii.ac.uk),
an institute of software engineers for hardening
and supporting the outcomes of the UK's e-Science
programme. She also co-directs the e-Science North
West Regional Centre (http://www.esnw.ac.uk).
In Europe she is the Technical Director of the
OntoGrid EU FP6 project (http://www.ontogrid.net)
which has devised the first reference (and deployed)
architecture for the Semantic Grid.
She
was also until recently the Research Director of
the Knowledge Web network for orchestrating research
on the Semantic Web throughout Europe (http://knowledgeweb.semanticweb.org).
She has published over 160 papers, has served on
all the prestigious conferences in the various
fields she embraces, and has given numerous keynote
talks in Semantic Web, Web, Life Sciences and Grid
Computing, covering most of the top conferences.
This year she her keynotes include: IJCAI07, the
3rd Intl e-Social Science Conference, Integrative
Biology 2007, Grid 2007 the Semantic Web and Life
Sciences workshop and the Biology Open Source Conference
2007. In 2006 she was the co-PC chair of the WWW
Conference. She currently serves on 17 international
advisory committees in semantics, grid, publishing
and e-Science.
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Keynote Address 3
Thursday, 7 June, 0900hrs
"High Productivity Computing"
Speaker: Kyril Faenov (GM,
Microsoft Corporation)
Abstract
HPC has
undergone a revolution with the advent of commodity
compute clusters. Where once HPC was the domain
of a specialized few researchers, now virtually
any enterprise can gain access to large aggregates
of processing power - holding out the promise of
truly "personal supercomputing." Personal
supercomputing will enable scientists and engineers
to interactively employ massive computational and
data processing resources to solve complex technical
problems. They will be able to assemble complex
models from best of breed scientific applications
and most recent data sources that might span organizations
and institutions, while integrating with the collaborative
and business workflows. To make this revolution
complete we need to reach out to organizations
and users with an environment that is familiar
and easy to use and exploit. This is where Microsoft
products, user interfaces, and developer tools
add value, by integrating these specialized resources
into an environment that allows seamless computing,
communication, collaboration and ultimately creativity
and productivity.
Biodata
Kyril Faenov
is an entrepreneur, technologist and executive with
a 15 year career in the high technology industry.
Presently, Faenov is a General Manager at Microsoft
Corporation, leading the Windows Server High Performance
Computing product unit in its strategy to bring HPC
to the mainstream. Prior to founding the HPC business
in 2004, he held responsibilities of incubation management
in the CTO office, senior executive technical staff,
competitive analysis, Windows development and program
management. Faenov joined Microsoft in 1998 as the
result of acquisition of Valence Research, a clustering
software startup he co-founded and grew to profitability.
He was a principal technical member of two other
parallel systems startups, as well as a consultant
to Intel. Faenov holds BS and MS degrees in computer
science and an MBA in Technology Management. Faenov
grew up in Moscow, Russia, where he trained with
the Olympic Reserve swimming team and studied physics
and mathematics. He now resides in Seattle, WA with
his wife and daughter. For the past 8 years Faenov
has been active in the Seattle community as an angel
investor and advisor to early stage startups, and
as a member of the Alliance of Angels and Social
Venture Partners organizations.
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Keynote
Address 4
Thursday, 7 June, 1315hrs
"International Science: Realizing
the Potential of Grids and High-end Computing"
Speaker: Prof.
Daniel Reed (Director,
Renaissance Computing Institute (RENCI) & Chancellor's
Eminent Professor for IT, University of North
Carolina – Chapel
Hill, USA)
Abstract
Large-scale Grids containing
thousands of sites are being contemplated, developed
and deployed. Similarly, node counts for terascale
systems have grown to tens of thousands, with petascale
system likely to contain hundreds of thousands of
nodes. In addition, a tsunami of new experimental
and computational data poses equally vexing problems
in analysis, transport, visualization and collaboration.
We must rethink traditional assumptions about software
scaling, component integration and hardware reliability
if we are to realize the vision of distributed, collaborative
scientific discovery. This talk describes the computing,
science, management and politics needed to integrate
large Grid integration and their implications for
large-scale science and engineering.
Biodata
Daniel A. Reed is the Chancellor's Eminent Professor
at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill,
and the Director of the Renaissance Computing Institute
(RENCI), which exploring the interactions of computing
with the sciences, arts and humanities. Dr. Reed
is a member of President Bush's Council of Advisors
on Science and Technology (PCAST), charged with providing
advice on science and technology issues and challenges
to the President. He is chair of the board of directors
of the Computing Research Association, which represents
the major academic departments and industrial research
laboratories in North America. He was previously
Director of the National Center for Supercomputing
Applications (NCSA) and of the principal investigators
and chief architect for the NSF TeraGrid.
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Keynote
Address 5
Friday, 8 June, 0900hrs
"Commercial
Strength Grids: Past, Present, and Future"
Speaker: Dr.
Bill Nitzberg (CTO,
Altair Grid Technologies Inc)
Abstract
Grid Computing
has its roots in technologies spanning the past 30
years: in network operating systems, distributed
systems, metacomputing, and clusters. The promise
of Grids--seamless access to computing power and
information resources, regardless of ownership--is
still emerging. After stripping away all the myth
and hype, the reality is that Grids are, in fact,
delivering substantial benefits in real production
settings. Grid technology is at the core of the
world's most powerful and demanding computing environments
making computing easy to use and hard to break on
all 7 continents. In the early 1990s, NASA built
one of the first production Grids. Since then, advances
in Grid technology and virtualization have allowed
us to exploit the unique qualities and raw power
of modern systems, and leverage recent developments
in Grid standards which promise a new wave of interoperable
software.
Biodata
Dr. Bill Nitzberg is the CTO of Altair Grid Technologies
at Altair Engineering, Inc. With over 20 years in
the computer industry, spanning commercial software
development to high-performance computing research,
Dr. Nitzberg is an internationally recognized expert
in parallel and distributed computing. Dr. Nitzberg
currently serves on the Board of the Open Grid Forum.
He co-architected NASA's Information Power Grid,
edited the MPI-2 I/O standard, and has published
numerous papers on distributed shared memory, parallel
I/O, PC clustering, job scheduling, and Grid computing.
In his spare time, Bill tries to reduce his pack
weight for his long-distance hiking trips. |
