APAC'05 PROGRAM
Tuesday, 27 September

Prince Room

Chair:  Professor John O'Callaghan

APAC'05 Opening Ceremony

The Honourable Helen Coonan, MP
Minister for Communications, Information Technology and the Arts
Australian Government 

Keynote Address - Professor Fabrizio Gagliardi
CERN & EGEE
"e-Infrastructure in Europe"
Presentation Sponsored by IBM
Morning Tea
"e-Infrastructure in Europe"
Prince Room

Marquis Room
Sponsor Presentations
Theme:
Grid Applications and Experiences
Chair:  Paul Coddington
Theme:
Geophysics
Chair: Lindsay Botten
Microsoft Presentation

 
The Cactus Portal Modelling Subduction of Tectonic Plates in Three Dimensions Using a High-Performance Comutational Geodynamics Framework
 
Michael Russell
Albert Einstein Institute

Steve Quenette
Victorian Partnership for Advanced Computing
  The Australian BioGrid Portal: Empowering the Molecular Docking Research Community Interoperability of Geoscience Data on the Solid Earth and Environment Grid
 
Hussein Gibbins
The University of Melbourne

Robert Woodcock
CSIRO Exploration and Mining
  Towards Belle Monte Carlo Production on the APAC National Grid Infrastructure
Geodynamic Benchmarking Tests in HPC
 
Lyle Winton &
Marco La Rosa
The University of Melbourne

Louis Moresi
Monash University
  Designing and Implementing a Grid Applications for Cumulative Agrichemical Residue Tracking Using Third-Party Data Sources and Software Components gLucifer: Next Generation Visualization Framewor
 
Elizabeth Post
Lincoln Ventures Ltd

Cecile Duboz
Monash University

Prince Room

Chair: Raj Chhabra

Keynote Address -
Jason Novotny
GridSphere Project
"Grid Portals: Bridging the Gap between Users and Grid Services"
Lunch
APAC'05 PROGRAM
Tuesday, 27 September
Lunch

Prince Room
Sponsor Presentations
Chair: Andrew Rohl
 
Dr David Scott
Intel

"Intel In High Performance and Grid Computing"
 
Dr Ilene Carpenter
SGI


"SGI High Performance Computing for Weather Forecasting and Climate Modeling"
 
Ruud van der Pas
SUN

"The Future of Floating-Point Computing is in Reliable Computing"
Afternoon Tea

Prince Room

Chair: Chris Willing

Keynote Address -
Tom Uram
Argonne National Laboratory
"The Access Grid: Software and Toolkit for Internet Collaboration"
 
Prince Room

Marquis Room
  Theme:
Grid Middleware and Tools
Chair: Tony Williams
Theme:
Computational Tools and HPC
Chair: Ben Evans
  Towards a Standards-based, Message-Oriented Access Grid
ESCRIPT: Numerical Modelling With Python
 
Steve Smith
The University of Sydney

Lutz Gross
The University of Queensland
  ESCRIPT: Numerical Modelling With Python Performance Analysis of MPI Communications on the SGI Altix 3700
 
Tony McGregor
University of Waikato and
NLANR AMP

Nor Asilah Wati Abdul Hamid
University of Adelaide
  Integrating Instruments and Sensors into the Grid with CIMA Web Services Supporting Community Based Computational Code
 
Donald (Rick) McMullen
Indiana University

Steve Quenette
Victorian Partnership for Advanced Computing
  Secure Federated Access to Grid Applications using SAML/XACML Managing the APAC NF Altix Cluster
 
Erik Vullings
Macquarie University

Kevin Pulo
The Australian National University
  Generating eScience Workflows from Statistical Analysis of Prior Data Scheduling BLAST Queries on an Overlay Network
 
Kwok Cheung
The University of Queensland

Chen Wang
The University of Sydney

Monarch Room

APAC'05 Dinner
APAC'05 PROGRAM
Wednesday, 28 September

Prince Room

Chair: Professor Bernard Pailthorpe

Address from iGrid2005 in San Diego via HDTV Link

Professor Larry Smarr
Director, California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology, (CAL-(IT)
2 )
Professor, Computer Science and Engineering, Jacobs School of Engineering, UCSD

Keynote Address - Professor Ian Foster
Argonne National Laboratory
Professor of Computer Science, The University of Chicago
"Service-Oriented Science"

Keynote Address - Professor Reagan Moore
San Diego Supercomputer Center
"Data Grids and Data Virtualization"
Morning Tea
 
Prince Room

Marquis Room
  Theme:
Visualization
Chair: Karen Haines
Theme:
Climate Modelling
Chair: Nathan Bindoff
  Drishti - A Volume Data Explorer AusCOM: The Australian Climate Ocean Model
 
Ajay Limaye
The Australian National University

Jason Roberts
TPAC, University of Tasmania
 
An On-Demand Streaming Protocol for 3D Graphics on the Grid
Oceans and Climate Digital Library Portal
 
Nick Lowe
ViSLAB, The University of Sydney

Ian Cumming
Insight4 Pty Ltd
  A Software Architecture for Real-time Volume Data Exploration on PC Based Platforms BLUElink:  Development of Operational Oceanography and Servicing in Australia
 
Michael Jones
Griffith University

Tim Pugh
Bureau of Meteorology Research Centre
  A Parallel Implementation of an Image Processing Algorithm Steps Towards a Common Data Exchange Infractructure in the Bluelink Project
 
Jared O'Connell
CSIRO

Tennessee Leeuwenburg
Bureau of Meteorology

Prince Room

Chair: Professor John O'Callaghan

Keynote Address -
Professor Sir John Taylor
"e-Research: Col-laboratories and Data Curation"
Lunch
APAC'05 PROGRAM
Wednesday, 28 September

Prince Room
Lunch

Chair: Dr Rhys Francis

Keynote Address -
Mark Linesch
Chair, Global Grid Forum (GGF)
"Grid Computing - The Path to Pervasive Adoption"

Chair: Professor Anne Trefethen, UK e-Science and Oxford University

Roundtable Panel: Grids in the Asia-Pacific

                                 
                                         
                     
Dr Kum Won Cho - Korea   Dr Rhys Francis - Australia
Dr Simon Lin - Taiwan   Dr Yoshio Tanaka - Japan
Professor Lawrence Wong - Singapore    Dr Zhiwei Xu - China

Chair: Dr Rhys Francis

Keynote Address -
Professor Anne Trefethen
UK e-Science and Oxford University
"e-Science and Cyberinfrastructure in Europe"
Afternoon Tea

Norfolk Room

Karrie Webb Room

Jacaranda Room

Birds-of-a-Feather Session

Grid Computing Infrastructure

Coordinator: David Bannon

Birds-of-a-Feather Session

Grid Information Infrastructure

Coordinator: Markus Buchhorn

Birds-of-a-Feather Session

Grid User
Interfaces


Coordinator: Raj Chhabra