APAC'05 PROGRAM
Monday, 26 September
8.30am APAC'05   Registration                                                                                 APAC'05   Registration  
Norfolk Room

Karrie Webb Room

Jacaranda Room

Prince Room
9:00am - 10.00am    
Grid Portal Workshop
Coordinator: Raj Chhabra



Presenters:
Jason Novotny,
Michael Russell
and
Oliver Wehrens
GridSphere Project
 
APAC Student Forum
Coordinators: Ian Turner
and Joe Young


Keynotes:
Professor David Keys
Columbia University
(via the access grid)
and
Peter Kerney
Intel Australia
 
10:00am - 10.30am   Morning Tea
10:30am - 12.30pm    
Grid Portal Workshop
(continued)
 
APAC Student Forum
(continued)
12:30pm - 1.30pm   Lunch
1:30pm - 2.30pm  
Nimrod Tutorial
Coordinator: David Abramson

Grid Portal Workshop
(continued)

APAC Education Forum
Coordinator: Stephen Roberts

APAC Student Forum
(continued)
2:30pm - 3.00pm   Afternoon Tea
3:00pm - 5.00pm  
Nimrod Tutorial
(continued)

Grid Portal Workshop
(continued)

APAC Education Forum
(continued)

APAC Student Forum
(continued)
  APAC'05   Exhibition   
 
Royal Benowa Foyer
6:00pm - 8.00pm
Co-Hosts: Professor John O'Callaghan and Professor Bernard Pailthorpe

Welcome Reception and Exhibition Opening

The Honourable Chris Cummins MP
Minister for Small Business, Information Technology Policy
and Multicultural Affairs
Acting Minister for Primary Industries and Fisheries

Queensland Government
APAC'05 PROGRAM
Tuesday, 27 September
8.00am APAC'05   Registration                                                                                 APAC'05   Registration APAC'05   Exhibition                                                                                   APAC'05   Exhibition
Prince Room
 
8.45am - 9.00am
Chair:  Professor John O'Callaghan

APAC'05 Opening Ceremony

The Honourable Helen Coonan, MP
Minister for Communications, Information Technology and the Arts
Australian Government 
9.00am - 9.30am
Keynote Address - Professor Fabrizio Gagliardi
 
CERN & EGEE
  "e-Infrastructure in Europe"
  Presentation Sponsored by IBM
10.00am - 10.30am Morning Tea
 
Jacaranda Room

Prince Room

Marquis Room
10.30am-12.00pm






Papers:
4 x 20 min
plus 10 min for changeover
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 Computational 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 Framework
  Elizabeth Post
Lincoln Ventures Ltd
Cecile Duboz
Monash University
 
Prince Room
12.00am - 12.30pm
Chair: Raj Chhabra

Keynote Address -
Jason Novotny
GridSphere Project
  "Grid Portals: Bridging the Gap between Users and Grid Services"
12.30pm - 1.30pm Lunch
APAC'05 PROGRAM
Tuesday, 27 September
12.30pm - 1.30pm APAC'05   Registration                                                                                 APAC'05   Registration APAC'05   Exhibition                                                                                   APAC'05   Exhibition Lunch
 
Prince Room
1.30pm - 3.00pm 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"
3.00pm - 3.30pm Afternoon Tea
 
Prince Room
3.30pm - 4.00pm
Chair: Chris Willing

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

Marquis Room
4.00pm-6.00pm








Papers:
5 x 20 min
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
  Towards a World-Wide Grid Measurement Infrastructure 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
7.00pm til late    
APAC'05 Dinner
APAC'05 PROGRAM
Wednesday, 28 September
8.00am APAC'05   Registration                                                                                 APAC'05   Registration APAC'05   Exhibition                                                                                   APAC'05   Exhibition
Prince Room
 
Chair: Professor Bernard Pailthorpe
8.45am - 9.00am
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
9.00am - 9.30am
Keynote Address - Professor Ian Foster
Argonne National Laboratory
Professor of Computer Science, The University of Chicago
  "Service-Oriented Science"
9.30am - 10.00am
Keynote Address - Professor Reagan Moore
San Diego Supercomputer Center
  "Data Grids and Data Virtualization"
10.00am - 10.30am Morning Tea
   
Prince Room

Marquis Room
10.30am - 12.00pm




Papers:
4 x 20 min
plus 10 min for changeover
  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 Valume 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
12.00am - 12.30pm
Chair: Professor John O'Callaghan

Keynote Address -
Professor Sir John Taylor
  "e-Research: Col-laboratories and Data Curation"
12.30pm - 1.30pm Lunch
APAC'05 PROGRAM
Wednesday, 28 September
  APAC'05   Registration                                                                                 APAC'05   Registration APAC'05   Exhibition   
Prince Room
12.30pm - 1.30pm Lunch
1.30pm - 2.00pm
Chair: Dr Rhys Francis

Keynote Address -
Mark Linesch
Chair, Global Grid Forum (GGF)
    "Grid Computing - The Path to Pervasive Adoption"
2.00pm - 3.30pm  
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
    Pro Lawrence Wong - Singapore   Dr Zhiwei Xu - China
3.30pm - 4.00pm  
Chair: Dr Rhys Francis

Keynote Address -
Professor Anne Trefethen
UK e-Science and Oxford University
    "e-Science and Cyberinfrastructure in Europe"
4.00pm - 4.30pm   Afternoon Tea
   
Norfolk Room

Karrie Webb Room

Jacaranda Room
4.30pm - 6.00pm  
Birds-of-a-Feather Session

Grid Computing Infrastructure

Coordinator: David Bannon