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Industry Track DETAILS
Session: Shared Services Abstract
In this session, Open Grid Forum (OGF) President, Mark Linesch, will discuss the growing trend to focus horizontally within and across organizations for collaborative research and design; process and data integration, resource and information sharing. He will describe his perspectives on grid computing and related technologies such as virtualization, automation and service orientation. He will discuss how these technologies are enabling IT organizations and Service Providers to provide flexible shared and utility-oriented services when and where needed to better support today's dynamic business environments. Biodata
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Time Information in a Shared Services World" Abstract . . . Abstract SaaS Provider plays main role in this service offering as in the current scenarios as the entire product range are not tailor-made to offer Software as a Service. The transparent business layer created between Customer & Service offering by SaaS Provider is the complete offering which takes care of the Business requirement of customer rather than product or Application requirement. Biodata
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Dr. Terence Hung is a Programme
Manager at the Institute of High Performance
Computing (Singapore), with an adjunct associate
professorship at the Nanyang Technological University.
He leads a programme that carries out research
in areas such as grid computing, HPC, data mining
and visualization. Besides co-directing the SSP
research initiative, Terence sits on various
committees to drive national level grid activities.
He also served as external proposal reviewer
for NSERC (Canada) and consultant to Gerson Lehrman
Group on HPC trends. Terence's research interests
include efficient multi-core algorithms, adaptive
parallelism and software as a service. He is
PI/co-PI in various local and international grant
projects. Terence has a PhD in Electrical Engineering
from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
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. Abstract Biodata ___________________________________________________________________________ Session: Utility Computing "Sun Grid Utility Computing" Abstract Biodata . . . "Mainstream HPC Solution" Abstract . . . "Shared Services in Government
- An Oracle Point-of-View" Abstract Biodata . . . "Utility
Computing in the Enterprise with Grid - A Majority
Review" Biodata ___________________________________________________________________________ Session: PC-Grid for Industry "Introduction to PC-Grid Computing" Abstract Biodata . . . "PC-Grid Initiatives in Singapore" Abstract Biodata
"PC-Grid Computing: Application
Showcases" Biodata . . . "PC-Grids:
The Future Computing Paradigm" Biodata ___________________________________________________________________________ Session: Grid Economics "Building a Grid Marketpalce" Abstract Biodata . . . Abstract Biodata ___________________________________________________________________________ Session: Virtualization Technology for Grid "On Demand Deployment of Windows & Linux
Guest Virtual Machines" Biodata . . . Abstract Biodata . . . Abstract Biodata . . . Abstract Biodata . . . "Virtualization:
Ready for Prime Time?" Biodata
Session: Enterprise Grid Computing Chair: Lim See Seng (PTC Systems) Biodata . . . "Grid
Computing with Oracle" Abstract Biodata . . . "Grid Architecture: Enterprise
Solutions for Infrastructure Simplification" Abstract Biodata . . . "Utility Grids - A Pragmatic
View" Abstract Biodata . . . "A Service-oriented Storage
Grid: Beyond Storage Virtualization" Abstract Biodata
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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.
Professor
Lawrence Wong is the Head of the Communications & Information
Engineering Group in the Electrical & Computer
Engineering Department, National University
of Singapore (NUS). He was Executive Director
of the Institute for Infocomm Research (November
2002 - November 2006), where he also held the
secondary appointment of Director of National
Grid Office (April 2004 - November 2006). Since
joining NUS in 1983, he served in various positions
in NUS, including Director of the Computer
Centre (June 2000 - November 2002) and Director
of the Centre for Instructional Technology
(June 1998 - June 2000). Prior to joining NUS,
he was a Member of Technical Staff at AT&T
Bell Laboratories in New Jersey, USA. He has
been actively involved in promoting grid adoption
in Singapore since 2003.
Laurence Liew
graduated from the National University of Singapore
with First Class Honors in Mechanical Engineering. He
holds a Masters in Knowledge Engineering from Singapore's
Institute of Systems Science. Laurence has been actively
involved with Linux and high performance computing
(HPC) clusters since 1998 and has been involved with
the design and deployment of HPC clusters in some of
APAC foremost R & D and commercial organizations.
Prior to joining Platform Computing, Laurence was the
CTO of Scalable Systems-a company that specializes
in HPC cluster management software. Scalable was the
co-developer (2000 - 2006) of a popular open source
cluster software project which has won several HPCWire
awards for "innovation"
and "most-valuable" in 2005 and 2006. At
Platform Computing, Laurence is responsible for the
Open Source Grid Development Centre (
Bjorn Andersson
brings over 20 years of experience in the computer
industry to his position as Director of High Performance
Computing (HPC) and Integrated Systems at Sun Microsystems,
Inc. He directs
a company wide initiative for HPC, including delivering
Grid Computing solutions for HPC. He also heads up
a team managing Sun's business for Integrated Systems,
including Sun Grid Rack System and Customer Ready Systems.
He has previously held several sales, technology and
marketing positions and has also been intimately involved
in setting the strategic direction for Sun. In the
past, Mr. Andersson was the regional manager for product
marketing in the Nordic and Baltic countries. He then
transferred to the worldwide headquarters and was instrumental
in bringing Sun's Ultra workstation series and graphics
products to the world wide market. Mr. Andersson holds
a master's degree in Engineering Physics and Computer
Technology from the University of Uppsala in Sweden.
Mr.
Tan is the Director from Oracle's Global Industries
Business Unit in Public Sector, with focus in eGovernment
and Shared Services in the Asia Pacific region. Leveraging
on over a decade of consulting and implementation
experiences in eGovernment and Shared services programmes,
Mr. Tan's key focus is to assist Government agencies
in the region implement their eGovernment and Shared
Services programmes by working closely with the country
teams to engage the agencies in the respective countries.
He is also responsible for developing Oracle's thought
leadership and collaterals and articulating its point
of view on eGovernment and Shared Services in Asia
Pacific countries. Prior to joining Oracle, Mr. Tan
was a member of Accenture's Government Market Unit's
management team and Change Management team in Singapore.
He has extensive consulting and implementation experiences
and has project managed mid- to large-scale eGovernment
programmes with Accenture. 
Eric Schnatterly leads IBM's strategic Systems and
Technology initiatives across key growth segments worldwide.
Mr. Schnatterly is focused on key Unix/Linux and
Advanced Virtualization growth opportunities within
the emerging markets of Asia Pacific. Along with
other portfolio's he is also responsible for partnering
with key technology companies that offer innovative
industry solutions that facilitate the exploitation
of IBM's scalable Systems and Virtualization solution
portfolio. Mr. Schnatterly brings over two decades
of experience, working with clients to better utilize,
leverage, and manage their IT assets. Over his 23
year IT career, Mr. Schnatterly has held various
Engineering, Sales, Sale Management, Consulting and
Executive positions. Mr. Schnatterly has also worked
with Clients from the Retail, Consumer Packaging,
Travel & Transportation, Wholesale Distribution,
Insurance, Banking, and Telecommunications segments. 
Benjamin has
been involved with High Performance Computing (HPC)
since 2000 beginning with SGI. Since then
he has deployed cluster from IBM using tools such
as OSCAR, ROCKS, CSM, XCAT and many more. He has designed
and implemented Grid architectures in countries such
as Australia, China and Singapore. He left IBM as
an Asia Pacific Grid Architect and joined the
Institute of High Performance Computing (A*STAR)
in Singapore as part of a research team in Grid Computing
architectures and middleware. Since then he has implemented many
more clusters and Grids including visualization clusters
and distributed computing infrastructures on many
platforms. He is now in Apple Computer as a senior
consultant in enterprise solutions and HPC on
the Apple platform.
Jon
Lau Khee Erng, Assistant Director at the National
Grid Office, is also technical manager of the National
Grid Pilot Platform and leads the Access Grid initiative
in Singapore. Jon Lau obtained his Bachelors of
Science (Information Systems & Computer Science)
and his Masters of Technology (Knowledge Engineering)
from National University of Singapore.
Ong Guan Sin
is Grid Manager of SCS, responsible to develop its
grid business from scratch since 2003. He built his
first grid system in 1997 when he participated in RC5
cracking effort on the Internet. Prior to joining SCS,
he was with Singapore Management University as Senior
Operations Manager, building the university's infrastructure
and operations from a small setup to a highly available
environment today. Earlier, he spent his entrepreneurial
years building multilingual Internet addressing technologies
and e-commerce ventures.
Melvin Koh is currently a Grid Technical Specialist
in Asia-Pacific Science and Technology Centre, Sun
Microsystems. He received his Degree in Computer Science
from National University of Singapore in 2002. Melvin
Koh is actively involved in many Grid research projects
and has collaborated with many research institutes
and universities world-wide. His current research focus
is on Grid security, distributed identity management
and Grid economics.
Frank
Feldmann is working for Novell's Asia Pacific Alliances
team as a Senior Technical Specialist. In his role
he is responsible for looking after the technical relationships
with Global Strategic Partners such as IBM, HP, Dell,
SGI etc for the Asia Pacific region. Before joining
Novell AP Alliances in Singapore, Frank was working
for Novell in New Zealand as a Technical Strategist
for Linux and Security & Identity.
Before relocating to Z in 2005, Frank managed a Java
services company called JNet in the Netherlands for
3 years specializing in Open Source and JBoss technology.
Prior to this Frank worked for SilverStream Software
for 4 years which Novell acquired in mid 2002. Frank
has a business degree in computer science & economics
and has been involved in many product and technology
shaping activities throughout his career. 
Francis
Nai is a Consultant in the Technology and Planning
Group in the Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore
(iDA). Prior to that, he is a faculty member in the
University of Wollongong and Temasek Polytechnic. His
PhD research involves the application of computational
techniques, high throughput and high performance computing
to the biomedical domain. He has worked extensively
in the distributed systems and bio-computing space.
SS Lim is the managing director of PTC System (S) Pte
Ltd., a leading vendor in enterprise data management
and content delivery.
20 years experience in the IT industries. He holds
a Bachelor of Science in business administration,
diploma in electrical and engineering and diploma
in marketing. PTC offers information technology solutions
that combine various technology and consulting services
to achieve exceptional performance for our customers.
Our knowledge domain is the ability to manage mission
critical data. We offer consultancy to our customers
on issues on complexity of IT infrastructures, bandwidth
resources, disaster recovery, storage growth of data
and others, Our solutions simplify data management,
data access and improve IT performance. 
Hemant leads IBM's Competitive Solutions Sales Business
for the Systems and Technology Group in the ASEAN/SA
region. He has special focus on Grid, Virtualisation
and Linux as key technologies supporting the evolving
trends in IT Infrastructure. He also looks after
the Deep Computing segment of the market in ASEAN/SA.
Hemant has been IBM's evangelist for Linux, Open
Source and GRID in Singapore and ASEAN/SA for over
four years, and now evangelises something that IBM
does best of all: Solutions. Hemant has had an extended
and varied career in IT environments in the automobile,
and consumer electronics industries. His AP wide
experience in large corporate environment helps him
feel the customer's pain as his own and be passionate
in his pursuit of bringing the "solutions" relief
to IBM's customers in fulfillment of IBM's Systems
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