OGF24 Schedule
The 24th Open Grid Forum - OGF24
September 15-19, 2008
Singapore, Singapore

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Monday, September 15
8:30 am - 9:00 am
Welcome and OGF24/GridAsia2008 Open (Exploration) (30 mins)
    Slides (PDF):     Opening Address by RADM(NS) Ronnie Tay (CEO, Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore)
9:00 am - 10:30 am
Commercial GSPs (1/2) (Aspiration) (90 mins)
Jon Lau (National Grid Office)
    Slides (PDF):     The Infrastructure Behind GSP by Tang Chok Siing
    Slides (PDF):     Pay As You Use Computing - nGrid by Alan Woo
    Slides (PDF):     Pay Per Use Storage by Lim S S
OGF101 (Breakthrough) (90 mins)
(OGF101)  Group Discussion
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    Slides (PDF):     OGF101 slides
caBIG(TM) Program Update and caGrid Infrastructure (Creation) (90 mins)
Krishnakant Shanbhag
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OGSA Information Services (Discovery) (90 mins)
Andrew Grimshaw
(OGSA-WG)  Group Discussion
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    Document (Text):     Information Services minutes
    Slides:     presentation slides template
    Slides:     presentation slides template
GridRPC WG (Exploration) (90 mins)
Hidemoto Nakada, Eddy Caron, Craig Lee
(GRIDRPC-WG)  Group Discussion
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    Document (PDF):     GridRPC data handle draft 0.8
10:30 am - 11:00 am
Break (30 mins)
11:00 am - 11:45 am
Oracle Enterprise Grid Reference Architecture and Interoperability Framework (Creation) (45 mins)
Kew Yoke Ling
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    Slides (PDF):     Oracle Enterprise Grid Reference Architecture and Interoperability Framework
OGSA-DMI Interop Results (Discovery) (45 mins)
Steven Newhouse
(OGSA-DMI-WG)  Group Discussion
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11:00 am - 12:30 pm
Commercial GSPs (2/2) (Aspiration) (90 mins)
Prof Francis Lee (Nanyang Technological University)
    Slides (PDF):     An Exchange for SaaS by Lim Chiin Hwa
    Slides (PDF):     Infrastructure 2.0 - IT Management made Easier with HaaS by Alex Ng
Resource Selection Working Session (Breakthrough) (90 mins)
Donal Fellows, Alexander Papaspyrou
(OGSA-RSS-WG)  Group Discussion
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    Slides:     Presentation by Donal Fellows
Network Services Interface -WG (Exploration) (90 mins)
Guy Roberts, Tomohiro Kudoh, Inder Monga
(GHPN-RG)  Group Discussion
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     Document (Word):     NSI Charter
    Slides:     Introduction slides
    Slides:     Phosphorus- G.UNI usecase
    Slides (PDF):     KDDI Grids for operators
    Slides (PDF):     D3 and D4 document structure discussion
    Slides:     IDC Protocol Specification - Version 0.3
    Slides:     NSI Architecture initial discussion
11:45 am - 12:30 pm
Increasing computation throughput with Grid data caching (Creation) (45 mins)
Jags Ramnarayan
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    Slides:     Increase computation throughput with Grid data caching - Jags Ramnarayan
Security Area coordination and outreach (Discovery) (45 mins)
David Groep
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12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Lunch (60 mins)
1:30 pm - 2:15 pm
Keynote - Cloud Computing: Tomorrow (Exploration) (45 mins)
Rakesh Sabharwal (ICSP Solutions)
    Document (PDF):     Cloud Computing: Tomorrow's Choice for Enterprise Applications
2:15 pm - 3:45 pm
Cloud Computing (1/2) (Aspiration) (90 mins)
Laurence Liew (Platform Computing)
    Slides (PDF):     From Grids to Clouds by Wolfgang Gentzsch
    Slides (PDF):     Using Clouds to Provide Grids Higher-Levels of Abstraction by Shantenu Jha
    Slides (PDF):     Sun Initiatives in Grid and Cloud Computing - Configuring the Cloud by Stephen Perrenod
Introduction to OGF Standards (1/2) (Breakthrough) (90 mins)
Chris Smith, VP Standards for OGF
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    Slides:     Network Monitoring
    Slides:     Session Introduction
    Slides:     Data Federation
    Slides:     ISV Integration
    Slides:     Meta-scheduling
Driving Progress and the Green VM Project (Creation) (90 mins)
Craig Lee
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    Slides:     Driving Progress and the Green VM Project
3:45 pm - 4:00 pm
Break (15 mins)
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
Cloud Computing (2/2) (Aspiration) (90 mins)
Kew Yoke Ling (Oracle)
    Slides (PDF):     Dynamic Grid Computing with Red Hat Enterprise MRG by Sivaram Shunmugam
    Slides (PDF):     Scalable Applications in the Cloud by Dekel Tankel
    Slides (PDF):     Enabling Cloud Computing with Xen by Michael Harries
    Slides (PDF):     Cloud Computing from Inside: An Oracle's Experience by U-Jin Kim
Introduction to OGF Standards (2/2) (Breakthrough) (90 mins)
Chris Smith, VP Standards for OGF
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Grid-Enabled Geospatial Systems (Creation) (90 mins)
Craig Lee
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    Slides:     Grid-Enabled Geospatial Systems
6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
Welcome Reception - OGF24 and GridAsia 2008 (90 mins)
Tuesday, September 16
9:00 am - 10:30 am
Software-as-a-Service: Global SaaS Issues (Aspiration) (90 mins)
Clement Lim (Singapore Computer Systems)
    Slides (PDF):     SaaS: Business Myth or reality by Alvin Lim
    Slides (PDF):     SaaS on the Grid by Teong Eng Guan
    Slides (PDF):     SaaS ISV Global Issues and Challenges by Rosella Santos
SAGA Outreach (Breakthrough) (90 mins)
Andre Merzky, Shantenu Jha
(SAGA-WG)  Presentation
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EU and Asia-Pacific Grid Collaboration and Future Challenges (1/3) (Creation) (90 mins)
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    Slides (PDF):     01 - Kyriakos Baxevanidis - AP-EU ICT collaboration
    Slides (PDF):     02 - Jon Lau - Grid Initiatives in Singapore
    Slides (PDF):     03 - Dieter Kranzlmueller - EU and Asia‐Pacific: Grid collaborations and future challenges
    Slides (PDF):     04 - David Wallom - OGF-Europe
    Slides (PDF):     05 - Giuseppe Andronico - EU-IndiaGrid
    Slides (PDF):     06 - A.C. Natraj - Garuda : The National Grid Computing Initiative
    Slides (PDF):     07 - Meharban Singh - Indian Network PerspectivesIndian Network Perspectives
    Slides (PDF):     08 - Burkhard Stiller - Introducing EC-GIN: Europe-China Grid InterNetworking
    Slides (PDF):     09 - Alex Voss - EUAsiaGrid
    Slides (PDF):     10 - Steve Crouch - OMII-UK/OMII-Europe and OMII-China
    Slides (PDF):     11 - Eric Yen - Integration of an Asian NGI with European counterparts
    Slides (PDF):     12 - Kazushige Saga - Cyber Science Infrastructure and NAREGI Grid middleware
CAOPS - IGTF Workshop (1/4) (Discovery) (90 mins)
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HPC Profile: Next steps (Exploration) (90 mins)
Marty Humphrey
(HPCP-WG)  Group Discussion
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    Slides:     HPC+Profile+WG.pdf
Grid Scheduling Architecture RG (Meeting Rm 2) (90 mins)
Ramin Yahyapour, Philipp Wieder
(GSA-RG)  Group Discussion
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APEC TEL Grid Session on "Sensor Grids for Environmental Monitoring" (1/2) (Video Conference Room) (90 mins)
Dr Lim Hock Beng (Nanyang Technological University)
    Slides (PDF):     Experiences and Practices in Grids for Environmental Study by Fang-Pang Lin
    Slides (PDF):     Live E! Project: Activities of Weather Sensor Network in Japan by Seiichi Kato
    Slides (PDF):     Synergy of Satellite Remote Sensing and Sensor Networks on GEO Grid by Yoshio Tanaka
10:30 am - 11:00 am
Break (30 mins)
11:00 am - 12:30 pm
Software-as-a-Service: Local SaaS Issues (Aspiration) (90 mins)
Jason Tan (Hewlett-Packard)
    Slides (PDF):     Atempo
    Slides (PDF):     Benefits of SaaS to SMBs by Milind Ghorpade
    Slides (PDF):     Delivering Value through Pricing Excellence by Chung Chee Kong
JSDL General Session (Breakthrough) (90 mins)
Andreas Savva, Stephen McGough
(JSDL-WG)  Group Discussion
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    Slides:     JSDL General session
    Slides:     JSDL Optional
    Document (Text):     meeting minutes
EU and Asia-Pacific Grid Collaboration and Future Challenges (2/3) (Creation) (90 mins)
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CAOPS - IGTF Workshop (2/4) (Discovery) (90 mins)
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Grid File System WG (Exploration) (90 mins)
Osamu Tatebe
(GFS-WG)  Group Discussion
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    Slides (PDF):     1. Introduction by Osamu Tatebe
    Slides (PDF):     2. File Catalog Development in Japan e-Science Project by Hideo Matsuda
    Slides (PDF):     3. RNS Requirements from KEK based on operational experiences using LCG/SRB/NAREGI by Go Iwai
    Slides (PDF):     4. Study of Load Balancing of Resource Namespace Service by Masahiro Nakamura
GIR-RG (Meeting Rm 2) (90 mins)
Greg Newby, Paul Kim
(GIR-RG)  Group Discussion
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    Slides:     GIR-WG Presentation at OGF24
APEC TEL Grid Session on "Sensor Grids for Environmental Monitoring" (2/2) (Video Conference Room) (90 mins)
Dr Lim Hock Beng (Nanyang Technological University)
    Slides (PDF):     Recent Activities of NZNEES, an e-Science Approach to Earthquake Engineering in New Zealand by Quincy Ma
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Lunch/Town Hall (60 mins)
1:30 pm - 2:15 pm
Keynote - Accelerating Enterprise Grid Adoption (Exploration) (45 mins)
Prof Lawrence Wong (National University of Singapore)
    Slides (PDF):     Accelerating Enterprise Grid Adoption
2:15 pm - 3:45 pm
Software-as-a-Service: SaaS Users (Aspiration) (90 mins)
Raju Chellam (AMI Partners)
    Slides (PDF):     Earl Allan (earth9)
    Slides (PDF):     Lee Poh Wah (Lien Foundation)
    Slides (PDF):     Cheong Chia Chou (PictureWorks)
Remote Instrumentation Services in Grid Environment - presentations (Breakthrough) (90 mins)
Marcin Płóciennik, Duane Edgington
(RISGE-RG)  Presentation
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    Slides (PDF):     Developing a Common Instrument Middleware Architecture for Remote Instrument Operation - Peter Turner
EU and Asia-Pacific Grid Collaboration and Future Challenges (3/3) (Creation) (90 mins)
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CAOPS - IGTF Workshop (3/4) (Discovery) (90 mins)
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SAGA General Session (Exploration) (90 mins)
Shantenu Jha, Andre Merzky
(SAGA-WG)  Group Discussion
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Aggregate Usage Record Representation (Meeting Rm 2) (90 mins)
Donal Fellows, Xiaoyu Chen
(UR-WG)  Group Discussion
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    Slides:     AUR_v1
Grid Experts Committee Meeting (1/2) (Video Conference Room) (90 mins)
    Slides (PDF):     Update on "AG for Distance Learning" by Singapore
3:45 pm - 4:00 pm
Break (15 mins)
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
Software-as-a-Service: SaaS Vendors (Aspiration) (90 mins)
Raju Chellam (AMI Partners)
    Slides (PDF):     Alan Lye (AKSAAS)
    Slides (PDF):     Haresh Khoobchandani (Microsoft)
Remote Instrumentation Services in Grid Environment - use cases (Breakthrough) (90 mins)
Marcin Plociennik, Duane Edgington
(RISGE-RG)  Group Discussion
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Building a Global Networked Infrastructure in Support of Research and Education (Creation) (90 mins)
Jacqueline Brown (Pacific Northwest Gigapop) and Francis Lee (Singaren)
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     Document (Word):     Speakers and Titles
CAOPS - IGTF Workshop (4/4) (Discovery) (90 mins)
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SAGA Working Session (Exploration) (90 mins)
Andre Merzky, Shantenu Jha
(SAGA-WG)  Group Discussion
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Usage Record Experiences Document (Meeting Rm 2) (90 mins)
Donal Fellows, Xiaoyu Chen
(UR-WG)  Group Discussion
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    Slides:     UR_v1_experience
Grid Experts Committee Meeting (2/2) (Video Conference Room) (90 mins)
    Slides (PDF):     Update on "PC Grids" by Republic of Korea
Wednesday, September 17
9:00 am - 10:30 am
Digital Media (1/2) (Aspiration) (90 mins)
Jon Lau (National Grid Office)
OGSA ISV remote computing usage primer (Breakthrough) (90 mins)
Steven Newhouse
(OGSA-WG)  Group Discussion
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Activity instance document schema (Creation) (90 mins)
Philipp Wieder, Steve McGough, Andreas Savva
(JSDL-WG)  Group Discussion
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    Slides:     session.ppt
    Document (Text):     requirements.txt
DAIS Working Group Session (Discovery) (90 mins)
Isao Kojima
(DAIS-WG)  Group Discussion
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    Slides (PDF):     DAIS-WG:Activity overview and RDF spec summary
NML-WG outreach session (Exploration) (90 mins)
Anand Patil
(NML-WG)  Presentation
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Intrusion Detection in Grid Computing - BOF (Meeting Rm 2) (90 mins)
Grids Around Asia (1/3) (Video Conference Room) (90 mins)
Dr Lee Hing Yan (National Grid Office, Singapore)
    Slides (PDF):     Data Services within Australian Research Collaboration Services by Florian Goessmann
    Slides (PDF):     Grid Research Initiative in Korea by Jaegyoon Hahm
    Slides (PDF):     Recent Activities and Future Directions of e-Science in Japan by Yoshio Tanaka
10:30 am - 10:45 am
Break (15 mins)
11:00 am - 12:30 pm
Digital Media (2/2) (Aspiration) (90 mins)
Augustine Goh (Oracle)
    Slides (PDF):     Remote Visualization across the Grid by Jeff Adie
    Slides (PDF):     Delivering Performance in Animation, Visual Effects & Games by P. Krishna Prasad
GLUE 2.0 Specification (Breakthrough) (90 mins)
Sergio Andreozzi
(GLUE)  Group Discussion
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    Slides:     Presentation
OGSA Authz Working Group (Creation) (90 mins)
David Chadwick, Valerio Venturi
(OGSA-AUTHZ-WG)  Group Discussion
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OMII-UK: progressing from adopting open specifications to sustainable open development by fostering Asia-Pacific collaborations and creating communities (Exploration) (90 mins)
Stephen Crouch
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    Slides:     OMII-UK Session Overview: progressing from adopting open specifications to sustainable open development by fostering Asia-Pacific collaborations and creating communities
Data Area Meeting (Meeting Rm 2) (90 mins)
David Martin, Erwin Laure
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Grids Around Asia (2/3) (Video Conference Room) (90 mins)
Dr Putchong Uthayopas (Thai National Grid Project)
    Slides (PDF):     Grid Computing in Malaysia by Ng Kwang Ming
    Slides (PDF):     MYREN (Phase 2) as Cyber-infrastructure for Grid among Academic Institutions: An Update by Suhaimi Napis
    Slides (PDF):     National Grid Initiatives in Singapore by Hing-Yan Lee
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Lunch (60 mins)
1:30 pm - 2:15 pm
Keynote -Massive Scale-Out and The Emergence of Cloud Computing (Exploration) (45 mins)
Jason Tan (Hewlett-Packard Singapore)
    Slides (PDF):     Massive Scale-Out and Emergence of Cloud Computing by Alanna Dwyer
2:15 pm - 3:45 pm
Biomedical, Pharma and Life Sciences (1/2) (Aspiration) (90 mins)
Dr Martti Tammi (National University of Singapore)
    Slides (PDF):     In-silico Protein Folding on the Grid by Thomas Leonard Joseph
GIN-CG - Session I: Status of World-wide Interop Activities (Breakthrough) (90 mins)
Morris Riedel, Erwin Laure
(GIN-CG)  Group Discussion
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    Slides (PDF):     Status of World-wide Interop Activities (Morris Riedel)
    Slides (PDF):     EDGes: Bridging EGEE to BOINC and XtremWeb (Etienne Urbah)
GRAAP#1 (Creation) (90 mins)
Wolfgang Ziegler
(GRAAP-WG)  Group Discussion
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    Slides:     Slides of Session#1
Firewall Virtualization for Grid Applications - WG (Discovery) (90 mins)
Ralph Niederberger
(Firewall Virtualization for Grid Applications - WG)  Group Discussion
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    Slides:     Agenda, update and first thoughts
OGSA-DAI: Data Access and Integration Overview and Tutorial (1/2) (Exploration) (90 mins)
Alistair Grant
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Grids Around Asia (3/3) (Video Conference Room) (90 mins)
Dr Suhaimi Napis (UPM, Malaysia)
    Slides (PDF):     e-Science Development in Taiwan and Asia by Eric Yen
    Slides (PDF):     Recent development of National Grid Project in Thailand by Piyawut Srichaikul
3:45 pm - 4:00 pm
Break (15 mins)
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
Biomedical, Pharma and Life Sciences (2/2) (Aspiration) (90 mins)
Dr Bertil Schmidt (Nanyang Technological University)
    Slides (PDF):     How Data Pipelining Enables the Deployment of Service Oriented Solutions on Cloud and Grid Based Architecture by Michael Doyle
    Slides (PDF):     Integrative Workflows for Life Sciences - Surveillance of Diseases, Food & Herbs and Chemicals & Drugs by Lim Teck Sin
    Slides (PDF):     Efficient Hybrid Computing with Progeniq FPGA Accelerators by Chua Teck Hiong
GIN-CG - Session II: Security Challenges in World-wide Interop Activities (Breakthrough) (90 mins)
Morris Riedel, David Groep, Erwin Laure
(GIN-CG)  Group Discussion
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    Slides (PDF):     Security Challenges in World-wide Interop Activities (Morris Riedel)
GRAAP#2 (Creation) (90 mins)
Wolfgang Ziegler
(GRAAP-WG)  Group Discussion
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    Slides:     Slides of Session#2
Enterprise Grid Requirements (Discovery) (90 mins)
Ravi Subramaniam, Toshi Nakata, Satoshi Itoh
(EGR-RG)  Group Discussion
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    Other:     Comment list from group members
    Slides (PDF):     Guideline of Requirements for Grid Systems
OGSA-DAI: Data Access and Integration Overview and Tutorial (2/2) (Exploration) (90 mins)
Alistair Grant
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PC Grid Efforts in Asia (Video Conference Room) (90 mins)
Jon Lau (National Grid Office)
    Slides (PDF):     Korea@Home by Jun-Weon Yoon
    Slides (PDF):     An Update on the TCG@NUS by Tan Chee Chiang
Thursday, September 18
9:00 am - 10:30 am
EUAsiaGrid Workshop (1/3) (Creation) (90 mins)
Marco Paganoni (CERN) and Simon C. Lin (Academic Sinica Grid Centre)
    Slides (PDF):     Work Package 2 by Alex Voss
    Slides (PDF):     Work Package 3 by Ludek Matyska
Financial Services Industry (1/2) (Exploration) (90 mins)
Ken Chuang (National Grid Office)
    Slides (PDF):     Grid and HPC in Finance - Lessons Learnt from the Field by Gabriel Sallah
    Slides (PDF):     Grid Computing for Financial Services by Kumaran Pillai
    Slides (PDF):     Accelerating FSI Application with State-of-the-Art SOA by Laurence Liew
    Slides (PDF):     Low Latency Data Grids in Finance by Jags Ramnarayan
10:30 am - 11:00 am
Break (30 mins)
11:00 am - 12:30 pm
EUAsiaGrid Workshop (2/3) (Creation) (90 mins)
Marco Paganoni (CERN) and Simon C. Lin (Academic Sinica Grid Centre)
Financial Services Industry (2/2) (Exploration) (90 mins)
Laurence Liew (Platform Computing)
    Slides (PDF):     Global on Request Insurance Service by David Piesse
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Lunch (60 mins)
1:30 pm - 2:15 pm
Keynote - Japanese Grid Initiatives and Future Directions (Exploration) (45 mins)
Amy Foo (Fujitsu Singapore)
    Slides (PDF):     Japanese Grid Initiatives and Future Directions
2:15 pm - 3:45 pm
EUAsiaGrid Workshop (3/3) (Creation) (90 mins)
Marco Paganoni (CERN) and Simon C. Lin (Academic Sinica Grid Centre)
Applying Virtualization to Grid Computing (1/2) (Exploration) (90 mins)
Stephen Madden, Virtual Iron
3:45 pm - 4:00 pm
Break (15 mins)
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
Applying Virtualization to Grid Computing (2/2) (Exploration) (90 mins)
Stephen Madden, Virtual Iron
Friday, September 19
9:00 am - 10:30 am
HPC Leadership Forum (1/3) (Creation) (90 mins)
Deepak Setty (Microsoft)
    Slides (PDF):     Microsoft HPC in Financial Services by Jeff Wierer
    Slides (PDF):     Living in a Mixed World - Interoperability in Windows HPC Server 2008 by Steven Newhouse
SaaS-PaaS Evangelist Workshop (1/2) (Exploration) (90 mins)
Salesforce.com
    Slides (PDF):     SaaS-PaaS Evangelist Workshop by Doug Farber
10:30 am - 11:00 am
Break (30 mins)
11:00 am - 12:30 pm
HPC Leadership Forum (2/3) (Creation) (90 mins)
Deepak Setty (Microsoft)
    Slides (PDF):     Engineering Simulation Solutions and High Performance Computing by Timothy Kwan
    Slides (PDF):     High Performance Computing in Life Science Environment by Teck-Sin Lim
    Slides (PDF):     Windows HPC Server 2008 by George Yan
SaaS-PaaS Evangelist Workshop (2/2) (Exploration) (90 mins)
Salesforce.com
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Lunch (60 mins)
2:15 pm - 3:45 pm
HPC Leadership Forum (1/3) (Creation) (90 mins)
Deepak Setty (Microsoft)
    Slides (PDF):     Welcome by Deepak Setty
    Slides (PDF):     High Performance Computing - An Imperative Enabler for Public R&D by Terence Hung
    Slides (PDF):     Asian HPC Update by David Kahaner
    Slides (PDF):     A Global Perspective on Parallel Processing Research for Scientific Computing in Japan by Yoshio Oyanagi
SaaS CRM Power-Start Workshop (1/2) (Exploration) (90 mins)
Salesforce.com
    Slides (PDF):     SaaS CRM Power-Start Workshop by Derek Ng
3:00 pm - 3:15 pm
Break (15 mins)
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
SaaS CRM Power-Start Workshop (2/2) (Exploration) (90 mins)
Salesforce.com

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