The half-day symposium for researchers & practitioners who are interested in harnessing Grid Computing.

Date: 4 April 2003 (Friday)
Place: Institute for Infocomm Research (I2R) Auditorium
21 Heng Mui Keng Terrace, Singapore 119613

Admission is FREE!
Please register with Vasu (vasu@ngp.org.sg).

Symposium programme sheet

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Introduction to Grid Computing

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.

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.

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.