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Session: APEC TEL Grid Session on "Sensor Grids for Environmental Monitoring"
"Experiences and Practices in Grids for Environmental Study" (Video Conference)
Speaker: Dr Fang-Pang Lin (National Centre for High Computing, Chinese Taipei)
Biodata
 Fang-Pang Lin is a key developer for developing a national cyber-infrastructure, namely Knowledge Innovation National Grid (KING). He initiated the Ecogrid project within PRAGMA as well as within KING to overarch international collaboration and extended development of KING for the year 2003. His recent major efforts include Grid-based Lake Metabolism research and Telescience in PRAGMA, World Wide Meta-computing with HLRS (Germany) and workflow model with AIAI, Edinburgh University. Fang-Pang Lin obtained his PhD in University of Wales at Swansea (UK). He worked in Rolls-Royce University Computing Center in Oxford University as a research scientist after one-year postdoctoral research in Swansea. He joined NCHC in 1997 and has been working in numerical simulation and software engineering regarding application integration.
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"Live E! Project: The Activities of Weather Sensor Network in Japan"
Speaker: Dr Seiichi Kato (Hyogo University of Health Sciences, Japan)
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 Dr Seiichi Kato is a lecturer of Hyogo University of Health Sciences in Kobe, Japan. He majored in astrophysics by numerical simulation using supercomputers. After obtaining his PhD degree from the University of Tokyo, he worked at the Osaka University Cybermedia Center, managing a shared supercomputer and the campus network and participated in a few collaborative projects, including the Live-E Project! He currently leads the technical working group and application working group of the Live-E! Project.
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"Synergy of satellite remote sensing and sensor networks on GEO Grid"
Speaker: Dr Yoshio Tanaka (Information Technology Research Institute, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science & Technology)
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 Dr Yoshio Tanaka received his B.E. in 1987, his M.E. in 1989 and his Ph.D.(Eng.) degree in 1995 all in mathematics from Keio University. He was working at Real World Computing Partnership from 1996 to 1999. His research theme was performance evaluation of parallel systems and development of programming models for cluster of SMPs. In 2000, he joined the Electrotechnical Laboratory. In 2001, the Electrotechnical Laboratory was re-organized as the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST). He is currently a principal research scientist of Information Technology Research Institute of AIST. His current research interests include Grid programming tools, developments and managements of Grid Testbed, and Grid security. He is in particular leading the Ninf project being developed as a reference implementation of current GridRPC GGF standard draft and the Asia Pacific Grid Partnership. He is also the chair of the Asia Pacific Grid Policy Management Authority and the Certificate Operations Working Group of the Open Grid Forum. He served an editorial position of the Transactions of Computing Systems of the Information Processing Society of Japan and is a member of steering committee of Japan Grid Consortium. He is a member of ACM and IPSJ.
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"Recent Activities of NZNEES, an e-Science Approach to Earthquake Engineering in New Zealand" (Video Conference)
Speaker: Dr Quincy Ma (University of Auckland, New Zealand)
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 Quincy Ma obtained his lectureship at the Department of Civil Engineering in 2006 and is the co-principal investigator for the NZNEES@Auckland facility. (www.nznees.auckland.ac.nz). Quincy has wide interest in the field of structural dynamics and earthquake engineering, specifically the mechanics of rocking structures for seismic protection, nonlinear structural analysis, finite element analysis, pseudo-dynamic and hybrid testing and in-situ monitoring of structures.
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"From e-Science to Smart e-Science for Environmental Monitoring"
Speaker: Dr Lim Hock Beng (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)
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 Dr Lim Hock Beng is program director of the Intelligent Systems Centre at Nanyang Technological University. He received his BS in Computer Engineering, MS in Electrical Engineering, and PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and an MS in Management Science and Engineering from Stanford University. His research interests include sensor networks and Grids, parallel and distributed computing, wireless and mobile networks, embedded systems, computer architecture, performance evaluation, and information security.
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Session: Grids Around Asia
"Data Services within the Australian Research Collaboration Service" (Video Conference)
Speaker: Florian Goessmann (ARCS, Australia)
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The Australian Research Collaboration Service (ARCS) is an Australia wide joint-venture of eight providers of advanced computing and eResearch facilities. WIthin ARCS, Data Services is responsible for processes and systems relating to data movement, storage and access. For most use cases these services are provided by the ARCS Data Fabric. The Data Fabric is a nation wide SRB Federation with nodes connected to large scale storage systems at each of the members of ARCS. Researches can access this system using a variety of client tools, file transfer protocols and authentication methods. The system allows Australian researches and their collaborators to easily store, manage and share data. In addition to the Data Fabric, ARCS Data Services supports a number of other technologies and services such as GridFTP and LDR in order to be able to allow researches to choose the best tool and service for a given task.
Biodata
 Florian Goessmann is the ARCS Data Services Manager. He is a staff member of Curtin University, fully seconded to iVEC for this role. He has been heavily involved in the planning and deployment of the ARCS Data Services and in particular the ARCS Data Fabric since the beginning of ARCS. Florian holds a Masters in Physics from Curtin University of Technology.
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"Recent Activities and Future Directions of E-Science in Japan "
Speaker: Dr Yoshio Tanaka (Information Technology Research Institute, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science & Technology)
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An IT platform that federates geographically distributed data sets with independent owners' policy and processes them on high performance computing systems to produce meaningful results are now demanded by many communities such as geosciences, biology, high energy physics, astrophysics, and so on. The methodology is called “E-Sciences" and now constitute the most advanced mode of the sciences. The key technology is the Grid that enables the sharing of geographically distributed resources such as supercomputers, databases, and experimental devices. Focusing on GEO (Global Earth Observation) Grid as an example, this talk summarizes the recent activities and future directions of research and development in E-Science in Japan. GEO Grid is primarily aiming at providing an E-Science infrastructure for worldwide Earth Sciences community. In the community there are wide varieties of existing data sets including satellite imagery, geological data, and ground sensed data that each data owner insists own licensing policy. Also, there are so many of related projects that will be configured as virtual organization (VO) enabled by Grid technology. The GEO Grid is designed to integrate all the relevant data virtually, again enabled by Grid technology, and is accessible as a set of services. This talk presents design principles of the GEO Grid that are determined based on accommodating users requirements for publishing, managing, and using data. Then, software architecture and its implementations are shown where we take the Grid computing and Web service technologies as the core components that comply with standard set of technologies and protocols. Although the talk will focus on GEO Grid, the fundamental concept should be common in various fields of science which needs federation of distributed data and computations.
Biodata
Dr Yoshio Tanaka received his B.E. in 1987, his M.E. in 1989 and his Ph.D.(Eng.) degree in 1995 all in mathematics from Keio University. He was working at Real World Computing Partnership from 1996 to 1999. His research theme was performance evaluation of parallel systems and development of programming models for cluster of SMPs. In 2000, he joined the Electrotechnical Laboratory. In 2001, the Electrotechnical Laboratory was re-organized as the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST). He is currently a principal research scientist of Information Technology Research Institute of AIST. His current research interests include Grid programming tools, developments and managements of Grid Testbed, and Grid security. He is in particular leading the Ninf project being developed as a reference implementation of current GridRPC GGF standard draft and the Asia Pacific Grid Partnership. He is also the chair of the Asia Pacific Grid Policy Management Authority and the Certificate Operations Working Group of the Open Grid Forum. He served an editorial position of the Transactions of Computing Systems of the Information Processing Society of Japan and is a member of steering committee of Japan Grid Consortium. He is a member of ACM and IPSJ.
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"Grid Research Initiative in Korea "
Speaker: Jaegyoon Hahm (Cyber Network Infrastructure Division, KISTI, Korea)
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The K*Grid project is an initiative in grid researches in Korea. The main objective of K*Grid project is to provide an extremely powerful research environment to high performance computing applications from both industries and academia. To achieve the goal, we are constructing a tera-scale national grid infrastructure in production level with the advanced grid technologies. Especially, the research and development of grid middleware are being carried out to improve the quality of services of grid infrastructure. Various application researches from both area of business and science are also being executed on the K*Grid infrastructure and middleware to provide better grid services for end users. In this talk, the speaker will introduce the recent activities in K*Grid project including TIGRIS which is a national grid infrastructure, KMI which is a middleware for building a computational grid environment, Korea@Home which is Internet-based distributed computing environment with desktop PCs, and pilot applications on grid environment.
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 Jaegyoon Hahm is a senior researcher in CI Middleware Research Team, Cyber Network Infrastructure Division, KISTI (Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information), Korea. He has been involved in K*Grid project since 2002, the start of the project. He has mainly participated in development of a middleware toolkit and package named "KMI (K*Grid Middleware Initiative)". His current research interests include grid computing, cyber-infrastructure, and parallel/distributed computing.
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"TBA "
Speaker: Thillai Raj(Software Development & Central Engineering MIMOS Berhad, Malaysia)
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 Thillai Raj is vice president of software development and central engineering at MIMOS Sdn Berhad, Malaysia.
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"MYREN Phase 2 as Cyberinfrastructure for Grid among Academic Institutions: An Update"
Speaker: Dr Suhaimi Napis (Plant Molecular Biology & Bioinformatics, Infocomm Development Centre Universiti Putra Malaysia)
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 Suhaimi Napis is an associate professor in the Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, Faculty of Biotechnology & Biomolecular Sciences as well as Director, InfoComm Development Centre, Universiti Putra Malaysia. He is also a Director, E-Research Area, MYREN.
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"Grid Initiatives in Singapore"
Speaker: Dr Lee Hing Yan (National Grid Office, Singapore)
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The National Grid initiative in Singapore is currently in its Phase 3 (2008 – 2010), after its move to the Infocomm Development Authority. While its National Grid Pilot Platform continues to be used by the R&D community and as a testbed by business users, a concerted effort to establish industry-strength grid services provisioning commenced in late 2007 through the issue of a Call-for-Collaboration. This has resulted in the appointment of several grid service providers that provide software, compute, and storage on a utility pricing basis. In addition, a SaaS incubation centre has been established.
Biodata
 Hing Yan is Program Director of National Grid Office at the Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore, where he directs, plans and coordinates the national initiative to realize a cyber-infrastructure for sharing and aggregating compute resources for R&D, business and industry. He is concurrently Project Director of the National Grid Pilot Platform, besides managing the National Grid Competency Centre and the National Grid Operations Centre. He spends considerable amount of his time promoting Grid Computing to potential users and meeting stakeholders. Prior to this, Hing Yan was Deputy Director of National Grid Office at the Agency of Science, Technology And Research as well as Principal Scientist at the Institute for Infocomm Research. He was previously Director of Knowledge Lab and Deputy Director of Japan-Singapore Artificial Intelligence Centre at the Kent Ridge Digital Labs (KRDL). He oversaw and managed industry collaborations and applied R&D in machine translation, spoken language dialogue, expert systems on the Internet, knowledge discovery, and other knowledge-driven efforts. Prior to KRDL, Hing Yan was Deputy Director at the Information Technology Institute, the applied R&D arm of the National Computer Board.
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"e-Science Development in Taiwan and Asia"
Speaker: Eric Yen (Academia Sinica Grid Centre, Taiwan)
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e-Science is about global collaboration in key areas of science and the next generation of infrastructure that will enable it." Realization of this evolution lies on the push of orchestration of information and communication technology and the pull of e-Science applications.
Challenges of e-Science development in Asia include: the divergence of networking infrastructure, production e-infrastructure operation, close interaction with user community, and the collaboration culture. As the global e-Science infrastructure is establishing very quickly, we have to take advantage of the progress by addressing the challenges of regional cooperation in Asia Pacific region.
In this talk, the work to promote collaboration in E-Science and scientific research between Europe and Asia and within Asia itself will be presented. By leveraging the exist application communities and infrastructure created by WLCG, EGEE, and EUAsiaGrid, many regional collaborations are participating with real benefits such as biomedical, disaster mitigation, e social sciences, computational chemistry, high energy physics and cultural heritage, digital archives, etc. Furthermore, our works on facilitating the regional e-Science infrastructure and application development, and coordinating the regional collaborations will be described.
Biodata
 Eric Yen is Technical Manager conducting the e- Science infrastructure, core technology and application development in Academia Sinica Grid Center, and to support broader collaboration within Taiwan and with Asia and Europe.
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"Recent Developments of the National Grid Project in Thailand"
Speaker: Dr Piyawut Srichaikul (Knowledge Engineering Technology Program National Electronics & Computer Technology Center, Thailand)
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Grid, cluster, cloud, and many forms of distributed computing environments are now a vital part of modern IT infrastructure. In addition, the ever growing need to collect, store, analyses, and share massive amount of data to gain more insight and knowledge becomes normal for any organization to maintain their competitiveness. During the past 3 years, Thai National Grid Project has created a great momentum in academic and industry in Thailand in term of the awareness and adoption of grid and high performance computing technology to enhance their competitiveness. Anyway, most of the grid usage and adoption is still happened mostly in academic world. Thus, the next drive for Thai National Grid is to strengthen the academic adoption of the grid and stimulate the grid usage in industries. This talk will briefly summarize the key activities and results during the first three years of the project, then, presenting the new strategy toward the next phase of the project. Experiences learned during the project will be discussed along with the best practice that can be used to solve all the challenges.
Biodata
 Dr. Piyawut Srichaikul is a Bangkok native. He received his Bachelor of Science from Chulalongkorn University in 1986. He earned his PhD in solid state physics from Auburn University, Alabama, USA in 1995. Later that year, he joined NECTEC as a researcher in High Performance Computing Lab. Currently, he is an acting program director of Knowledge Engineering Technology.
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Jun-Weon Yoon has been working at KISTI Cyber Network Infrastructure division as a researcher since January 2007, where his effort in the Korea@Home (a PC grid project in Korea) development and maintenance, such as Korea@Home software and applications management.
Jon Lau, 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.
Chee Chiang's involvement in HPC and research computing started about 20 years ago when he was pursuing his Master of Engineering degree at the National University of Singapore (NUS). After joining NUS Computer Centre in 1993, he was tasked to set up a central HPC and scientific visualization facility, introduced the first Cray Vector supercomputer on campus. Since then, he has been playing a major role in driving the introduction of various other new HPC technologies and services to the research community that include the remote visualization system, the HPC Portal, the cycle-harvesting compute Grid and the InfiniBand based multi-core blade clusters. The cycle-harvesting Grid project was honored with the CIO Asia awards by the CIO Magazine in 2006. His current focus is on developing an Enterprise Architecture and a HPC Data Centre for research computing at NUS.
Deepak Setty leads the HPC initiative at Microsoft for Asia Pacific region and is responsible for sales, marketing, product definition and strategic collaborations. Deepak has been actively engaged in HPC domain for the last 5+ years between Europe and Asia. Deepak has a special interest in ramping adoption of technical computing in the commercial sector and building an outreach into the Asian research and academic institutions.
Dr Terence Hung is a Program Manager at the Institute of High Performance Computing (Singapore). He manages a group of researchers and provides management and technical leadership in areas such as HPC, grid computing, data mining, digital modeling and visualization. He holds an adjunct associate professor position with the School of Computer Engineering at the Nanyang Technological University of Singapore. Since 2006, Terence serves as council member of the Gerson Lehrman Group, providing consultancy in HPC and grid computing. He was also invited as external grant proposal reviewer for the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada and the Chilean Research Fund Council. In 2008, Terence is appointed as the Asia/Pacific Director of the HP-CAST (Hewlett-Packard Consortium for Advanced Scientific and Technical computing user group) board.
Prof. Yoshio Oyanagi is Dean of the Faculty of Informatics at Kogakuin
University. He retired from the University of Tokyo in 2006, where he was professor in the Dept. of Computer Science, upon having reached the age limit of 62. His current subjects include high performance computing, numerical analysis, parallel numerical algorithms, performance evaluation of
supercomputers, scientific data analysis, computational physics, and parallel computing in physics applications. Oyanagi obtained his BS, MS and PhD degrees in Physics from the University of Tokyo in 1966, 1968 and 1971, respectively.
Lim Teck Sin founded KOOPrime in 2000, one of the first companies that focus on life science informatics. Since then, Mr Lim has setup a subsidiary to provide Validation and Compliance services across Asia, a bioinformatics centre that focus on herbal genomics research in Hong Kong, and sales office at Malaysia. The shareholders include National University of Singapore, Glaxo Smith Kline, Merlion Pharmaceuticals and BioOne Capital. In recognition for the growth of KOOPrime, Lim Teck Sin was awarded the Best Entrepreneur, Science & SOC, Centennial Entrepreneurship Awards by National University of Singapore in 2005.
Luke Jingyuan graduated with a BEng in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from University of Science Malaysia in 1995 and joined MIMOS R&D since. He was initially involved in several image processing and robotics research projects before extending his research interests into network multimedia, IP multicasting and finally into High Performance Computing and Grid Computing.
Dr Steven Newhouse received his BEng degree in Aeronautical Engineering at Imperial College London in 1991. He remained at Imperial completing a PhD in numerical acoustic modeling in 1995. Through his post doctoral work he became involved in parallel computing and ultimately spent several years establishing an applied research community as part of the College's High Performance Computing Centre. He became involved in the UK e-Science program when it started in 2001, leading the Centre's involvement in the Global Grid Forum which was eventually to become the Open Grid Forum (OGF). His move to the University of Southampton in June 2004 as Deputy-Director of the Open Middleware Infrastructure Institute (OMII) led to his participation in various requirements analysis in order to bring a more user focused orientation to OMII's activities. He went on to lead the OMII-UK collaboration as Director from January 2006 before leaving to join Microsoft in May 2007 as part of the HPC product group. There he leads the group's engagement with the OGF where he co-chairs the High Performance Computing Profile Working Group and serves as an Area Director for Application in the Standards Council..gif){kind=small}
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