| Life
Sciences VGC
Symposium
The
Ministry of Health (MOH), National Grid Office (NGO),
and Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR)
are pleased to present a symposium for the life sciences
and biomedical communities on "Grid
Research & Information Driven Biomedical Applications".
Date
:
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3
April 2004 (Saturday) |
Time
:
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0900 – 1300
hours |
Venue
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CRC
Auditorium, MD 11, Medical Drive, National University
of Singapore |
This
symposium seeks to bring together international and
local researchers and doctors in Biomedical research
to share their expertise; to raise awareness among
the medical community in Singapore of the importance
and relevance of Grid technology to all aspects of
R&D; to allow the medical community to establish
strong links among themselves; and to allow medical
community to learn from, interact and collaborate
on life sciences and biomedical projects.
A
pre-symposium programme comprising technical workshops
and a ‘live’ Access Grid session with
the University of Manchester on the MyGrid project
will be held on 2 April 2004 (Friday) at the Institute
for Infocomm Research (21 Heng Mui Keng Terrace,
Singapore 119613).
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Programme |
2
April 2004 (Friday)
|
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Pre-Symposium
Programme (I2R Auditorium)
|
1300
- 1330
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Registration
|
1330
- 1500
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W1:
Setting up An Access Grid
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W2:
BioBox & Workflow
|
1500
- 1530
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Grid-based
Cell Ware
|
1530
- 1600
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Coffee
Break
|
1600
- 1700
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Presentation
on MyGrid by University of Manchester
Via Access Grid
|
1700
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End
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| 3
April 2004 (Saturday) |
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Sessions
(CRC Auditorium)
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0830
- 0900
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Registration
|
0900
- 0905
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Introduction
Professor Lawrence Wong
Director, National Grid Office
|
0905 – 0915
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Welcome
Message
Guest of Honour: Dr. Vivian Balakrishnan
Minister of State, Ministry of National Development
|
0915 – 0935
|
Singapore
Biomedical Compute Resources
Dr. Michael Rebhan
Project Manager, Bioinformatics Institute
|
0935 – 1055
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Bioinformatics – A
Strategy for Vision Research
Associate Professor Donald Tan Tiang Hwee
Director, National Eye Research Institute
|
1055 – 1015
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Grid-Enabled
Construction of A Diagnostic Microarray
for Detecting Known & Novel Pathogens
Dr. Chris Wong
Research Associate, Genome Institute of Singapore
|
1015 – 1035
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Cutting
Edge Research in Health Sector:
Perspectives from a Healthcare Cluster
Professor Malcom Paterson
Scientific Director for Research, SingHealth Group
|
1035 – 1100
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Coffee
Break
|
1100 – 1120
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Biomedical
Imaging
Dr. Bertil Schmidt
Deputy Director, BMERC, Nanyang Technological University
|
1120
- 1140
|
Data
Integration in Biomedical Grid Projects:
Perspectives for Academic & Industrial
Research
Dr. Martin Hofmann
Head, Dept. Of Bioinformatics, Fraunhofer SCAI (Germany)
|
1140
- 1200
|
Cellware – Building
the Next Generation Computational Platform
for Systems Biology
Dr. Pawan Dhar
Principal Investigator, Bioinformatics Institute
|
1200
- 1220
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Enhanced
Quality & Quantity of Retrieval of
Critically Appraised Topics
Using the CAT Crawler
Dr. Adrian Mondry
Young Investigator, Bioinformatics Institute
|
1220
- 1230
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Closing
Address
Dr. Santosh Mishra
Executive Director, BioInformatics Institute
|
1230
- 1330
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Lunch
|
 Symposium
programme sheet
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Synopsis |
Introduction
to Grid Computing
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by
Karthik Ramarao, Itanium Program Manager,
Hewlett-Packard Singapore
Abstract
Grid is an evolving at an amazing pace in the technical and scientific area.
It is also appearing to have an important presence in the commercial area
too. In this talk, the speaker will take the audience through the evolution
of grid, HP's presence and contribution to the grid community and some
case studies of grid deployment. He will also discuss on how the compute,
data and storage grids are evolving.
Biodata
Karthik Ramarao is Itanium™ Program Manager in Hewlett-Packard's Business
Critical Systems Asia Pacific Marketing organization. He is responsible for
program and activities related to Itanium based solutions. Karthik has spent
16 years focusing on solutions for the Technical Computing encompassing Scientific
Research, Life and Materials Sciences, Mechanical Computer Aided Engineering,
Government and Defence, Geo Sciences and Electronic Design Automation in the
area of visualization and high performance computing. Karthik holds an Engineering
Degree in Electronics & Communications.
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| Web
Services & OGSA |
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by
Benjamin Khoo, IT Availability Specialist,
IBM Singapore Pte Ltd
Abstract
As Grid Computing continues to evolve with continual research from both educational
and commercial fore-fronts, the current developments of Grid Computing,
based on the traditional distributed computing paradigm, will soon reach
the stage where the further development of the Grid into a services oriented
architecture is inevitable. This session looks briefly at IBM's current
work on Web Services and how OGSA is becoming an integral part of the Services
solution.
Biodata
Benjamin Khoo is a Grid architect in ASEAN for IBM Global Services. He
majored in Electrical and Electronics Engineering at the National
University of Singapore. He had three years of HPC experience before
joining IBM. He has also co-authored a IBM Redbook on high performmance
computing and helped review IBM's first Grid Redbook before publication.
His areas of responsibility includes Linux, Linux High Performance and High
Availability Clusters, Grid Computing Architecture and implementation.
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| Making
the Campus Grid Work |
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by
Abele Stoelwinder, Technical Member of APSTC,
Sun Microsystems Pte Ltd
Abstract
The focus of the talk is on the components that enables the campus grid, and
the areas of additional integration & research work. Sun has a 7000
WW deployment of the Sun Grid Engine (SGE).
Biodata
Abele Stoelwinder is a technical member of the Asia Pacific Science & Technology
Center (APSTC), an initiative by Sun Microsystems. Mr. Stoelwinder graduated
in 2002 at the Noordelijke Hogeschool Leeuwarden in the Netherlands. His main
focus at APSTC is in the field of Grid Computing. Abele is also a member of
Sun's HPC Aces team; a group specialized in High Performance Technical Computing.
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