National Grid Seminar Series

Recent Activities of Joint Research between GTRC/AIST and Japanese Companies

Dr. Yoshio Tanaka
Team Leader, Grid Infraware
Grid Technology Research Center, AIST, Japan

19 October 2005 (Wednesday)
1400 hrs @ Auditorium
Institute for Infocomm Research
21 Heng Mui Keng Terrace, Singapore 119613

Abstract

Grid Technology Research Center (GTRC) of National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Japan has many activities on research and developments of Grid technologies such as cluster and networking technologies, Grid middleware and Grid applications. This talk introduces some of the recent commercial-oriented activities in GTRC/AIST such as experiences on developments, deployments, and experiments on Grid Application Service Provider (Grid ASP) and Grid-level scheduler that coordinates resource scheduler and Lambda Path Service over GMPLS, which is expected to provide a commercial Lambda Path Services.

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 team leader of Grid Infraware Team of Grid Technology Research Center, 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. He has won the best paper award in the International Conference 1999. He serves 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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This seminar series is organized by the National Grid Office located at 21 Heng Mui Keng Terrace, Singapore 119613.

Admission is Free. All are Welcome.
Please email to Miss Vasugi (email: vasu@ngp.org.sg) to register a place by 1000 hours on 18 October 2005.