International Symposium on Grid Computing (ISGC) 2008

7 Apr 2008, 09:00 → 11 Apr 2008, 21:20 Asia/Taipei

Activity Center, Academia Sinica

Monday, 7 April

09:00 → 10:45 EGEE Tutorial

09:00 gLite Introduction & Security

Speaker: Min TSAI (ASGC)

09:30 Information System & Practical

Speaker: Joanna HUANG (ASGC)

10:00 Work Load Management & Simple Job Submission Practical

Speaker: Shu-Ting LIAO (ASGC)

10:45 → 11:15 Coffee Break

11:15 → 12:45 EGEE Tutorial

11:15 Data Management & Practical

12:00 Yaim & (UI TAR installation) Practical

12:45 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 15:40 EGEE Tutorial

14:00 Grid Applications Introduction

Speaker: Wei-Long UENG (ASGC)

14:30 Porting an Application to the EGEE Grid & Practical

Speakers: Fu-Ming TSAI (ASGC) , Hsin-Yu CHEN (ASGC)

15:40 → 16:00 Coffee Break

16:00 → 17:40 EGEE Tutorial

16:00 Data Grid Services/SRB/SRM & Practical

Speaker: Hai-Ning WU (ASGC)

17:10 Building a Grid System for High Performance Computing

Speaker: Danny SHIEH (ASGC)

Tuesday, 8 April

09:00 → 10:30 APGridPMA Meeting

09:00 → 10:45 WLCG Tier-2 Workshop

09:00 talk

--Workshop goals
--WLCG Service Reliability-Best Practices
--Survey of Asia-Pacific sites with respect to “best practices”

09:00 → 10:30 iRODS Workshop

10:30 → 11:00 Coffee Break

10:45 → 11:15 Coffee Break

11:00 → 12:00 APGridPMA Meeting

11:00 → 12:00 iRODS Workshop

11:15 → 12:45 WLCG Tier-2 Workshop

12:00 → 13:30 Lunch

12:45 → 13:45 Lunch

13:30 → 15:00 APGridPMA Meeting

13:30 → 15:00 EUAsiaGrid Kick-off Meeting

13:30 → 15:00 iRODS Workshop

13:45 → 15:30 WLCG Tier-2 Workshop

15:00 → 15:30 Coffee Break

15:30 → 17:00 APGridPMA Meeting

15:30 → 16:00 Coffee Break

15:30 → 17:30 EUAsiaGrid Kick-off Meeting

15:30 → 17:00 iRODS Workshop

16:00 → 17:15 WLCG Tier-2 Workshop

Wednesday, 9 April

09:00 → 10:00 Opening Remarks and Keynote Speech

09:00 Opening Remarks

Speakers: Chao-Han LIU (Vice President, Academia Sinica, TW) , Maw-Kuen WU (Director, Institute of Physics, Academia Sinica, TW)

09:30 Keynote Speech- Conflicts and Synergies between Academia and Industry

Speaker: Craig LEE (The Aerospace Corporation, US)

10:00 → 10:30 Group Photo & Coffee Break

10:30 → 12:30 Grid Activities in Asia Pacific I

Convener: Marco PAGANONI (INFN, IT)

10:30 High Energy Physics Related GRID Activity in India

Speaker: Atul GURTU (TIFR, IN)

10:50 e-Science Infrastructure and Applications in Taiwan

Speaker: Eric YEN (ASGC)

11:10 K e-Science : Korea Science Gateway

Speakers: Beob Kyun KIM (Soonwook HWANG, KISTI, KR) , Glenn MOLONEY (University of Melbourne, AU)

11:30 ThaiGrid: From Infrastructure to Services and Beyond

Speaker: Piyawut Srichaikul (NECTEC, TH, Putchong UTHAYOPAS, ThaiGrid, TH)

11:50 KnowledgeGRID Malaysia: The Next Journey of Malaysia’s National Grid Computing Initiative

Speaker: Luke Jing YUAN (MIMOS, MY)

12:10 GRID Activities at KEK and Future Plans

Speaker: Takashi SASAKI (KEK, JP)

12:30 → 13:30 Lunch

13:30 → 15:30 Application - High Energy Physics: Ⅰ

Convener: Shih-Chang LEE (Academia Sinica, TW)

13:30 Interactive Data Analysis on the Grid with PROOF and gLite

Speaker: Peter MALZACHER (GSI, DE)

13:50 Experience with ATLAS Data Challenges and CCRC’08

Speaker: Kors BOS (NIKHEF, NL)

14:10 The e-Science for High Energy Physics in Korea

Speaker: Kihyeon Cho (KISTI/UST)

14:30 Service, Operations and Support Infrastructure in HEP

Speaker: Patricia MÉNDEZ LORENZO (CERN, CH)

14:50 A High Energy Physics Data Analysis Tool

Speaker: Hurng-Chun LEE (ASGC, TW)

13:30 → 15:10 EUAsiaGrid Kick-off Meeting

13:30 → 15:10 Grid Security & Networking: Ⅰ

13:30 Overview of the GEO Grid Security

Speaker: Yoshio TANAKA (AIST, JP)

13:50 Open Science Grid Security

Speaker: Douglas OLSON (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, US)

14:10 Operational Security in EGEE

Speaker: Romain Wartel (CERN)

14:30 An Experience in Developing Common Certificate Policy

Speaker: Shinichi MINEO (RIKEN, JP)

14:50 Interfacing Operational Grid Security to Site Security

Speaker: Eileen BERMAN (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, US)

15:10 → 15:40 Coffee Break

15:30 → 16:00 Coffee Break

15:40 → 17:10 EUAsiaGrid Kick-off Meeting

15:40 → 17:10 Grid Security & Networking: Ⅱ

15:40 Advanced Network Developments in the Asia Pacific Region and Their Role in Expanding the Reach of Grid Based Applications

Speaker: Geroge McLAUGHLIN, (APAN, AU)

16:00 Trends in Wide Area Network Support for LHC

Speaker: Eileen BERMAN (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, US)

16:20 EGEE Security Middleware: Present and Future

Speaker: John White (NeIC)

16:40 Security Policies for Interoperable Grids

Speaker: David Kelsey (STFC-RAL)

16:00 → 17:40 Application - High Energy Physics: Ⅱ

16:00 Distributed Computing and Data Analysis for CMS in View of the LHC Startup

Speaker: Peter KREUZER (RWTH-Aachen IIIa, CH)

16:20 STAR Grid Activities - OSG and Beyond

Speaker: Douglas OLSON (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, US)

16:40 Distributed Physics Analysis for ATLAS

Speaker: James CATMORE (University of Lancaster, UK)

17:00 CMS Data Transfer Tests in Preparation to LHC Data-taking

Speaker: Daniele Bonacorsi (University of Bologna)

17:20 The PanDA Distributed Production and Analysis System

Speaker: Torre WENAUS (BNL, US)

18:30 → 20:30 Welcome Reception

Thursday, 10 April

09:00 → 11:00 Grid Activities in Asia Pacific II

09:00 Australia's National Infrastructure for Research

Speaker: Markus BUCHHORN (ANU, AU)

09:15 Grid Operation at Tokyo Tier-2 Center for Atlas

Speaker: Hiroyuki MATSUNAGA (University of Tokyo, JP)

09:30 In vitro Validation of Virtual Screening Method Using Health GRID for the Development of Neuraminidase Inhibitor

Speakers: Doman KIM (CNU, KR) , Young-Min KIM (CNU, KR)

09:45 Water Resource Data GRID of Thailand

Speaker: Royol CHITRADON (HAII, TH)

10:00 The Academic Grid (A-Grid), A Learning Grid for Malaysia: Motivation and Future Plans

Speaker: Suhaimi Napis (Universiti Putra Malaysia)

10:15 Grid Activities in China

Speaker: Gang Chen (Institute Of High Energy Physics)

10:30 Grid Computing for Health and the Environment: Experiences and Perspectives in the Philippines

Speaker: Rafael SALDAÑA (Ateneo de Manila University, PH )

10:45 IOIT-HCM System and Grid activities in Vietnam

Speaker: Tran Van LANG (Ho Chi Minh City Institute of Information Technology, VN)

11:00 → 11:20 Coffee Break

11:20 → 13:00 Application – Earth Sciences

Convener: Feng-Tyan LIN (National Taiwan University, TW )

11:20 High-Performance Computation in Hazard and Risk Research

Speaker: Friedemann WENZEL (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, DE)

11:40 Plans for Taiwan Earthquake and Tsunami Monitoring Cooperation with Countries Surrounding the South China Sea

Speaker: Bor-Shouh Huang (Institute of Earth Sciences, Academia Sinica)

12:00 Computational Seismology and Grid Computing – Application and Potential

Speaker: Shiann-Jong LEE (Academia Sinica, TW )

12:20 The Development of an Open Source Ubiquitous Geographic Information Management and Service Environment

Speaker: Sheng-Ming WANG (National Taitung University, TW)

12:40 Spatial Service Oriented GRID Architecture

Speaker: Tien-Ying CHOU (Feng Chia University, TW)

11:20 → 12:50 Grid Middleware & Interoperability: I

Convener: Robert JONES (EGEE, CH)

11:20 EGEE and Interoperation

Speaker: Laurence FIELD (CERN, CH)

11:50 UNICORE 6 A European Grid Technology

Speaker: Achim STREIT (Jülich Supercomputing Centre, DE )

12:20 Open Science Grid Software Stack, Virtual Data Toolkit and Interoperability Activities

Speakers: Douglas OLSON (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, US) , Ruth PORDES (pen Science Grid/Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, US)

13:00 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 15:30 Application - Humanities & Social Sciences: I

Convener: Tobias BLANKE (King’s College London, UK )

14:00 Potentials for e-Science in the Arts and Humanities - a UK perspective

Speaker: Tobias BLANKE (King’s College London, UK )

14:30 Humanities and the Grid: Early Exemplars and Potential Projects

Speaker: Paul ELL (Queens University, UK)

15:00 Opportunities and Challenges for Grid-based Humanities Research

Speaker: David J. Bodenhamer (Indiana University-Purdue University)

15:15 On the Road towards Arts and Humanities e-Infrastructure in Germany

Speaker: Heike NEUROTH (Goettingen State and University Library, DE)

14:00 → 15:30 Grid Middleware & Interoperability: II

Convener: Ian BIRD (CERN, CH )

14:00 Interoperability between gLite and GOS

Speaker: Yaodong CHENG (IHEP, CAS)

14:30 NAREGI Grid Middleware and the Operational Issues

Speaker: Kento Aida (National Institute of Informatics)

15:00 Realizing Inter-operability among Grids: A Case Study with GARUDA Grid and the EGEE Grid

Speaker: Shamjith KV (Centre For Development of Advanced Computing (CDAC), IN)

15:30 → 16:00 Coffee Break

16:00 → 17:30 Application - Humanities & Social Sciences: II

Convener: Alexander VOSS (NCeSS, UK)

16:00 Mobilizing the Humanities and Social Science Grid: Enabling Its ePossibilities for Future Global Cooperation

Speaker: Faridah Mohd Noor (University of Malaya)

16:30 Grid-enabled Simulation for Urban and Regional Planning

Speaker: Mark BIRKIN (University of Leeds, UK)

17:00 Social Science Data Archive in Taiwan

Speaker: Ly-Yun Chang (Academia Sinica, TW)

17:15 Grid-enabled for Digital Archives:The Development and Applications of SRM-SRB interface for DataGrid Services

Speaker: Wei-Long UENG (ASGC)

16:00 → 17:40 Grid Operation & Management: I

Convener: Klaus-Peter MICKEL (FZK, DE)

16:00 Asia Pacific Grid Operations

Speaker: Min TSAI (ASGC)

16:20 OSG Operations: Resource and Service Validation

Speaker: Douglas OLSON (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, US)

16:40 Operating the Distributed NDGF Tier-1

Speaker: Michael GRONAGER (NDGF, The Nordic Countries)

17:00 Development and Operation of the D-Grid Infrastructure

Speaker: Thomas FIESELER (Jülich Supercomputing Centre, DE)

17:20 Interoperation with Infrastructures and VO Production Systems: the NDGF-EGEE and NDGF-PanDa Cases

Speaker: Michael GRONAGER (NDGF, The Nordic Countries)

Friday, 11 April

09:00 → 10:20 Industry Session

Convener: Fabrizio GAGLIARDI (Microsoft, US)

09:00 Grid and Cloud Computing: Opportunities and Challenges for e-Science

Speaker: abrizio GAGLIARDI (Microsoft, US)

09:30 Resource Virtualization and Optimization via Grid and Cloud Computing

Speaker: Moon KIM (IBM, US)

10:00 On-Demand Computing Using Network.com

Speaker: Melvin KOH (Sun Microsystems Inc., SG)

10:20 → 10:40 Coffee Break

10:40 → 11:40 Grid Activities in Asia Pacific II: III

10:40 Grid Services Provisioning

Speaker: Hing-Yen LEE (NGO, SG (remotely))

10:55 Computing and Information Grid Development in Thailand

Speaker: Sornthep Vannarat (National Electronics and Computer Technology Center)

11:10 GRID Initiatives on Indonesia

Speaker: basuk suhardiman (itb)

11:25 Grid Activities in the Philippines through the Philippine e-Science Grid Program

Speaker: Rey Vincent BABILONIA (ASTI, PH)

11:40 → 13:10 Grid Middleware & Interoperability: III

Convener: Robert JONES (EGEE, CH)

11:40 OMII-Europe Interoperability of e-Infrastructures

Speaker: Achim STREIT (Jülich Supercomputing Centre, DE )

12:10 GridWay Scalability and Interoperation for DRMAA Codes

Speaker: José Luis VÁZQUEZ-POLETTI (Eduardo HUEDO, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, ES)

12:40 Virtual Organisation Management and Information Service

Speaker: Harry ENKE (Astrophysical Institute Potsdam, DE)

12:55 Uniform Access to Heterogeneous Grid Infrastructures with JSAGA

Speaker: Sylvain REYNAUD (IN2P3/CNRS, FR)

11:40 → 13:10 Grid Operation & Management: II

11:40 Introducing EGEE Site Service Level Agreements

Speaker: John SHADE (CERN, CH)

12:10 WLCG Operations and Deployment in the UK

Speaker: Jeremy Coles (University of Cambridge)

12:40 FermiGrid - Highly Available Grid Services

Speaker: Eileen BERMAN (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, US)

12:55 Towards an E-Governance Grid for India (E-GGI)

Speaker: Chivukula Sree Rama PRABHU (National Informatics Centre, IN )

13:10 → 14:10 Lunch

14:10 → 15:40 Application – Biomedicine and Life Sciences I

14:10 Secure Grid Services for Cooperative Work in Medicine and Life Science

Speaker: Anette WEISBECKER (Fraunhofer IAO, DE)

14:40 The @neurIST Biomedical Grid Infrastructure

Speaker: Siegfried BENKNER (University of Vienna, AT )

15:10 irtual Screening Service Based on Grid Application Platform

Speaker: Mason HSIUNG (ASGC, TW)

15:25 Grid Technologies for Cancer Research in the ACGT Project

Speaker: Juliusz PUKACKI (Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center, PL)

14:10 → 15:40 Grid Operation & Management: III

14:10 The Architecture of the WLCG Monitoring System

Speaker: James CASEY (CERN, CH)

14:40 Simply Monitor a Grid Site with Nagios

Speaker: James CASEY (CERN, CH)

15:10 Techniques for Implementing & Running Robust and Reliable DB-centric Grid Applications

Speaker: Miguel ANJO (CERN, CH)

15:25 Sustainable Grid User Support

Speaker: Torsten ANTONI (FZK, DE)

15:40 → 16:00 Coffee Break

16:00 → 17:30 Application – Biomedicine and Life Sciences I: II

Convener: Yannick LEGRÉ (OPERAS AISBL)

16:00 A Grid-based Medical Decision Support System

Speaker: Kao-Cheng YIN (Feng Chia University, TW)

16:30 Grid Computing Activities with EGEE Application at Peking University

Speaker: Sijin QIAN (Peking University, CN)

17:00 Tackling Humanitarian Challenges with Citizen Cyberscience

Speaker: Francois Grey (CERN)

17:15 SHARE: A Roadmap for Wide Adoption and Deployment of Grid Technology for Health in Europe

Speaker: Yannick LEGRÉ (OPERAS AISBL)

16:00 → 17:30 Digital Library & Content Management

Convener: Reagan MOORE (SDSC, US)

16:00 Talk 1

Speaker: Ian ATKINSON (James Cook University, AU )

16:30 A Hybrid Approach of Digital Long-term Preservation to Institutional Repositories - A Case Study of DSpace/SRB Integration

Speakers: Arthur CHEN (Academia Sinica, TW) , Feng-chien Chung (Academia Sinica, TW)

17:00 Digital Library Storage in an iRODS Data Grid

Speaker: Mark Hedges (King's College London)

17:30 → 18:15 Closing Ceremony & Speech

Convener: Simon C. Lin (ASGC)

17:30 Closing Speech European Grid Initiative -- Current Status

Speaker: Ludek Matyska (CESNET)

19:00 → 21:00 Banquet (Invited only)