APECTEL 39 GRID WORKSHOPS

Session: Information Grid for Knowledge System
Wednesday, 15 April 2009

0830-0900
“Overview of APECTEL project on Information Grid for Knowledge System”
Speaker: Dr. Fang-Pang Lin (National Centre for High Computing, Chinese Taipei)

Abstract
TBA

Biodata
Dr. 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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0900-0930
“Chinese Taipei project”
Speaker: Dr. Fang-Pang Lin (National Centre for High Computing, Chinese Taipei)

Abstract
TBA

Biodata
Dr. 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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0930-1000
“A Framework for the Integration of Distributed and Heterogeneous
Sensor Data Sources”
Speaker: Dr. Lim Hock Beng Program Director, Intelligent Systems Centre (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)

Abstract
In recent years, there is a growing trend toward the deployment of sensor networks for environmental monitoring all over the world. The data from these sensor deployments are often made available for public access via the web. However, the heterogeneity of the sensor types and data formats and the incoherent manner in which the data is made available are major obstacles to overcome to make these public sensor data sources easily searchable and accessible.

We are developing a novel framework for managing, indexing and searching distributed and heterogeneous sensor data sources. A key challenge we are addressing is the integration of live sensor deployments with existing sensor data sources. In this talk, we will discuss the design challenges and goals of the framework, and a prototype implementation for the integration of several live sensor deployments under the Asia-Pacific Environmental Sensor Grid initiative with existing web-based data sources.

Biodata
Dr Lim Hock Beng is program director of the Intelligent Systems Centre at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. 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 his MS in Management Science and Engineering from Stanford University. His research interests include sensor networks and sensor grids, cyber-physical systems, parallel and distributed computing, cloud computing, wireless and mobile networks, computer architecture, embedded systems, performance evaluation, e-Science and high-performance computing.

Session: PC Grid
Wednesday, 15 April 2009

1100-1130
"Overview of PC Grid@APEC"
Speaker: JunWeon Yoon (Korea Institute of Science & Technology Information, Korea)

Abstract
Korea@Home project attempts to harness a massive computing power using a great number of PCs connected via the Internet. The computing power is used to process massive amount of information, which is a huge challenge for a single process. Korea has a very advanced high-speed Internet infrastructure. It is known that Korea has the best Internet utilization among any other countries in the world. In Korea, the popularization of PC is about 80% while the Internet users are about 77%. This advanced infrastructure is advantageous to build an Internet-based distributed computing environment with low costs and high efficiency.  To make use of this advanced infrastructure, the Supercomputing Center of the Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information (KISTI), with the support of the Korea Communications Commission, has led the Korea@Home project from 2002. Currently, this project is running and solving large-scale distributed/parallel application problems such as bio, climate, cryptology, and astronomy. Volunteers can participate in Korea@Home from anywhere on Internet to contribute their own PC's idle time.

Biodata
JunWeon Yoon works at Supercomputing Center of KISTI in Korea as a researcher.  His current part and role is Korea@Home (PC grid platform in Korea) development and maintenance such as Korea@Home software and applications management.  He is discovering and applying new applications such as cryptology and astronomy.  The ongoing astronomy application in this project is similar to seti@home project.  But this application uses from KVN (Korean VLBI Network) which is located in Korea and analysis undertaken by Korea@Home platform in different ways.

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1130-1200
“Korean PC Grid Effort: Astronomy and SETI”
Speaker: Yong-Ik Byun (Yonsei University, Korea)

Abstract
Modern astronomy involves large amount of digital data and the scientific agenda is often challenged by the limitation of data handling capacity. As more advanced telescopes become on-line, this situation is likely to become worse. PC Grid can be an attractive solution for a certain type of astronomical data analysis which requires huge amount of computations. We are making experiments with the Korea@Home platform, which harnesses a massive computing power based on a large number of PCs provided by volunteers. The aim of our experiment is two-fold. First, we want to develop an effective algorithm to detect highly temporal radio signals from the VLBI (Very Long Baseline Interferometer) radio telescopes. The raw VLBI data have previously been deleted after used to detect fringe signals among different telescopes in the array through a correlation procedure. The processed data are useful in constructing extremely high spatial resolution radio images, but the time information in the original data is lost in the process. Since the primary goal of VLBI observations is to obtain such images, the raw data of immense size are not stored once they are correlated. With large computing power provided by PC Grid, we are attempting, for the first time, to make a direct use of VLBI raw data to examine the presence of rapid transients. This not only gives a chance to examine previously unexplored scientific issues, but also to detect artificial signals sent by Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence in a manner quite different from the Berkeley based seti@home project. This relates us to a secondary goal of our effort; to attract general public and promote the culture of modern science, especially on astrobiology and planet finding missions as well as radio astronomy in general. At the same time, we hope to greatly increase the number of volunteering PCs in the Korea@Home project. Korea@Home has existed since 2002, but has had difficulty in gathering more than tens of thousands volunteers. Our new effort, with significant help from high public interest on the issue and also from participation of public schools, aims to increase this number up to a good fraction of million. For public education and event preparations, we are cooperating with the Korean office of the “2009 International Year of Astronomy”.

Biodata
Yong-Ik Byun is a professor in Astronomy at Yonsei University in Korea. He is working with other astronomers and also with computer scientists at the Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information to promote the PC Grid program focused on the Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence. Yong-Ik Byun obtained his PhD in 1992 at the Australian National University with a thesis on the Structure and Dust Opacity of Spiral Galaxies. He worked at the University of Hawaii for three years as the Hubble Fellow supported by NASA Space Telescope Science Institute, and also spent three years at the National Central University in Taiwan as an associate professor. In 1998, he joined Yonsei University and has been working in the fields of observational astronomy including variable stars, asteroids, and optical transients. 

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1230-1300
“NUS Grid: Improvement with Multi-core Processor Clients”
Speaker: Wang Junhong Lead HPC Specialist, Computer Centre (National University of Singapore)

Abstract
The concept of Cycle Harvesting Grid started from tapping on the idle compute cycles on personal computers at home and office desktops, which are normally under-utilized when turned on.  The NUS Grid initially started with a similar model in 2004.  In the last 3 years, we extended the grid devices to our central high-performance computing nodes running Linux.  With more HPC cluster compute nodes connected to the Grid and the wide adoption of latest multi-core technology in HPC servers, the CPU cores that are connected to NUS Grid have been increasing gradually as a very substantial Grid computing resources pool. The advantages brought by Linux HPC servers to the NUS Grid are obvious. Firstly, they are available in 24x7. Secondly, the available memory is high and CPU speed is faster. Thirdly, as they are under our central management, we can make necessary changes to the systems that will help in the deployment of user’s applications to the Grid. The ongoing user’s projects demonstrate great usefulness of the Grid and flexibility in application deploying.

Biodata
Wang Junhong is a Lead HPC Specialist at the Computer Centre of National University of Singapore (NUS). He obtained his first degree from Beijing University of Aerospace and Aeronautics and his Master degree from Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. He joined NUS in 2003 and his work includes providing support to researchers in the areas of computational fluid dynamics analysis, high-performance computing & programming and grid computing. He led the project in the NUS Grid infrastructure development and spent effort in promoting the Grid computing in NUS. He works closely with researchers to deploy their applications on the NUS Grid and provides advice to improve the productivity of the applications.  He is also involved in cycle harvesting grid collaboration among universities in ASEAN.

Session: Access Grid for Distance Learning
Wednesday, 15 April 2009

1400-1430
"Overview of APECTEL project on Access Grid for Distance Learning"
Speaker: Jon Lau Khee Erng Assistant Director (National Grid Office, Singapore)

Abstract
TBA

Biodata
Jon Lau Khee Erng, Assistant Director at the National Grid Office, 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.

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1430-1445
“Update on Access Grid efforts in APEC - China ”
Speaker: Prof. Ma Yan (Beijing University of Post & Telecommunications, China)

Abstract
TBA

Biodata
Professor Ma Yan works at Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications(BUPT), Beijing, China. He is actively involved in the China Next Generation Internet (CNGI) project and in promoting Grid computing research. He is the ex-Convenor of APECTEL DSG during 2007 to 2008.

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1445-1500
“Update on Access Grid efforts in APEC - Chinese Taipei”
Speaker: Dr. Fang-Pang Lin (National Centre for High Computing, Chinese Taipei)

Abstract
TBA

Biodata
Dr. 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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1500-1515
“Update on Access Grid efforts in APEC - Malaysia”
Speaker: Dr. Suhaimi Napis Associate Professor & Director of InfoComm Development Centre (Universiti Putra Malaysia)

Abstract
TBA

Biodata
Dr. 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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1515-1530
“Update on Access Grid efforts in APEC - The Philippines”
Speaker: Rey Vincent P. Babilonia (Advanced Science & Technology Institute)

Abstract
TBA

Biodata
TBA

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1530-1545
“Update on Access Grid efforts in APEC - Singapore”
Speaker: Law Gim Han (Institute of High Performance Computing)

Abstract
TBA

Biodata
TBA

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1545-1600
“Update on Access Grid efforts in APEC - Australia”
Speaker: Chris Willing (University of Queensland)

Abstract
TBA

Biodata
TBA

Session: Grid Experts Committee Meeting
Wednesday, 15 April 2009

1630-1645
“Information Grid for Knowledge System”
Speaker: Dr. Fang-Pang Lin (National Centre for High Computing, Chinese Taipei)

Abstract
TBA

Biodata
Dr. 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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1645-1700
“PC Grid”
Speaker: JunWeon Yoon (Korea Institute of Science & Technology Information, Korea)

Abstract
TBA

Biodata
JunWeon Yoon works at Supercomputing Center of KISTI in Korea as a researcher.  His current part and role is Korea@Home (PC grid platform in Korea) development and maintenance such as Korea@Home software and applications management.  He is discovering and applying new applications such as cryptology and astronomy.  The ongoing astronomy application in this project is similar to seti@home project.  But this application uses from KVN (Korean VLBI Network) which is located in Korea and analysis undertaken by Korea@Home platform in different ways.

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1700-1715
“Access Grid for Distance Learning”
Speaker: Jon Lau Khee Erng Assistant Director (National Grid Office, Singapore)

Abstract
TBA

Biodata
Jon Lau Khee Erng, Assistant Director at the National Grid Office, 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.