Keynote Speakers
Associate Professor Francis Lee Bu Sung
Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore
ABSTRACT
Over the past decade, there has been a growth in the number of National and Global Research and Education Network and Grid Initiatives. The landscape of Research and Education Networks (RENs) has changed dramatically, especially in the Asia region. There are a number of global networks, eg. GLIF. Global connectivity is now a must and efficient and appropriate connectivity is a goal. Similarly there are a number of international Grid initiatives, eg. EGEE, PRAGMA, which have set-up Grid test-beds. A major project pumping data around the globe is the Large Hydron Collider experiment which uses a multi-tier data network.
Although the potential of Grid could not have been realized without the “good” connectivity there remain a number of challenges that needs to be addressed. It is not just the bandwidth which has grown many folds, but the technology that could ensure the “Quality” of the network. The talk will cover the National and Global REN and Grid initiatives. It will cover the technological challenges that the Grid and Network community could work together to address.
BIO
A/Prof. Bu-Sung Lee received his B.Sc. (Hons) and PhD from the Electrical and Electronics Department, Loughborough University of Technology, UK in 1982 and 1986 respectively. He is currently an Associate Professor with the Nanyang Technological University and Associate Chair (Research), School of Computer Engineering. He is the invited lecturer to Osaka University, under the Pacific Rim International UniverSity program in 2005-2008.
He has been actively involved with the Asia-Pacific research and education network since the formation of Singapore Advance Research and Education Network project in 1997. He was the Director of Network Technology of the Asia Pacific Advance Network Consortium (APAN) from 2000-2003. He is the founding president, 2003-2007, of the Singapore Research & Education Networks (SingAREN) society, formed in Sept 2003. Since 2004, he is a member of the technical management team of Trans-EurAsia Information Network(TEIN-2), the first large-scale research and education network for the Asia-Pacific. It connects ten countries in the region, and provides direct connectivity to Europe's GEANT2 network.
He was a member of the BioMedical Grid project from 2001-2002, and Group leader of the National Grid Network Working Group (2003-2006), one of the WGs which is coordinating the Grid research activities in Singapore. He is an active member of Pacific Rim Middleware and Application Association (PRAGMA). In 2005, he and his team have successfully deployed the Multi-Organisation Grid Accounting System (MOGAS) software, which they developed, across the PRAGMA grid test-bed. He is a member of Singapore National Grid Advisory council.
A/Prof. Bu-Sung Lee has published over 150 peer-reviewed papers, along with over 60 journal papers. His research areas cover both Grid Computing and networks. His particular interests are in data replication, scheduling, network QoS (wired and wireless) and ad hoc networks. He has received a number of research grants. He has been active in the academic community in organizing conferences, eg. Program Chair for the 13th IEEE International Conference on Networks (ICON 2005), Program Chair of the 6th IEEE International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid (CCGrid06). He is the Conference General Chair for the 7th IFIP International Conference on Networking (Networking 2008).
Associate Professor Ge Jingguo
China Science and Technology Network, Chinese Academy of Sciences
ABSTRACT
Emerging e-Science applications involving both computer and data intensive applications require collaboration on a global scale and high capacity network infrastructures. More and more research network organizations around the world rethink their existing infrastructures, adopting and implementing the idea of hybrid networking, in which IP services and lightpath provisioning co-exist on a common transmission infrastructure. The presentation provides an overview of the e-Science activities such as Grid Computing, Massive data Storage or other Networked remote Applications in Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) and their requirements expected to the underlying network infrastructure. It also shows the ongoing evolution in the academic research networking of CSTNET towards CNGI, GLORIAD and HKOEP to provide the reliability, end-to-end guaranteed bandwidth services for large scale science projects. Finally, a case study of eVLBI application in astronomy will be exhibited how to build end-to-end lightpath based on advanced optical networking technologies to enable near real-time and high rate data transmission applications.
BIO
Ge Jingguo is the deputy director of China Science and Technology Network (CSTNET), the basic network infrastructure for the Chinese Academy of Sciences. He is also an Associate Professor in the Computer Network Information Center, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CNIC,CAS) and is responsible for the R&D and applications for the next generation of Internet.
He received a M.Sc. in Computer Science and Technology from the China University of Petroleum and a Ph.D. in Computer Architecture/Computer Network and Engineering from the Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences. He focused his research on areas of next-generation networking architecture, protocols and relational technologies, including large-scale network planning, high-performance routing and switching, network control and management.