Keynotes
Keynote 1: On the Role of Autonomics in Emerging Grid Ecosystems
Speaker Manish Parashar, director of the NSF Center for Autonomic Computing (CAC)
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Abstract Significant strategic investments are quickly realizing a pervasive computational infrastructure that integrates computers, networks, data archives, instruments, observatories, and embedded sensors and actuators. This in turn has the potential for enabling new paradigms and practices in computational science and engineering - those that symbiotically and opportunistically combine computations, experiments, observations, and real-time information. However the ability of scientists to realize this potential is being severely hampered primarily due to the increased complexity and dynamism of the applications and the computing infrastructure. Autonomic computing has the potential to fundamentally address these challenges. In this talk, I will motivate autonomics for computational science and engineering. I will then describe research efforts at TASSL, Rutgers University as part of the NSF Center for Autonomic Computing aimed at enabling autonomic scientific and engineering applications that can address the challenges of (and benefit from) pervasive computational ecosystems.
Biography Manish Parashar is Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Rutgers University, where he also is director of the NSF Center for Autonomic Computing (CAC) and director of the Applied Software Systems Laboratory.
He received a BE degree in Electronics and Telecommunications from Bombay University, India and MS and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Engineering from Syracuse University. He has received the IBM Faculty Award (2008) Rutgers Board of Trustees Award for Excellence in Research (2004-2005), NSF CAREER Award (1999) and the Enrico Fermi Scholarship from Argonne National Laboratory (1996). His research is in the broad area of applied parallel & distributed computing and computational science, and specifically on solving science and engineering problems on very large systems. For more information please visit http://www.ece.rutgers.edu/~parashar/.
Keynote 2 :The EGEE grid and its experiences in the use of e-Infrastructures for world-class science
Speaker Dr. Bob Jones, EGEE Project Director, CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
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Abstract Enabling Grids for EsciencE (EGEE) is a leading player in the Grid, a new computing paradigm providing on-demand, location independent access to very large scale computing resources. EGEE operates the world’s largest multi-science production Grid infrastructure. As the flagship project of the European Commission, EGEE unites regional and national Grid infrastructures into a seamless whole, able to support scientists in their research around the clock. The users of the EGEE Grid are organised into Virtual Organizations, allowing them to share resources, codes, data and common tools specific to their fields of study.
More than 200 Virtual Organizations use EGEE, in a wide range of fields including high energy physics, astrophysics and astronomy, earth sciences, material sciences, and life sciences. The EGEE infrastructure includes approximately 300 sites in 50 countries spanning Europe, Asia and the Americas. Each day the infrastructure handles more than 300,000 application executions per day and has access to data repositories with a combined capacity exceeding 20 petabytes. EGEE actively pursues interoperability with collaborating projects in the USA (Open Science Grid and TeraGrid), Japan (NAREGI) as well as India and China.
This presentation will give a brief overview of the organisation and services provided by EGEE. Based on this experience, we will identify a number of key areas where we believe autonomic computing can have an impact on grids as European moves towards a sustainable grid infrastructure for e-Science.
Biography
Dr. Jones is the Project Director of the European Commission co-financed EGEE project, which provides a production grid facility for e-Science in Europe.
Following a B.Sc. (Hons) in Computer Science from Staffordshire University, Jones joined the European organisation for high energy physics (CERN) in 1986 as a software developer with the information technology department providing support for the physics experiments running on the Large Electron Positron (LEP) particle accelerator. He completed his PhD thesis in Computer Science at Sunderland University while working at CERN and has been involved in several research projects for the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) accelerator. Previous experience in the grid arena includes his mandate as technical coordinator and then deputy project leader for the EU DataGrid project (2001-2004), the flagship grid project of the European Commission in its 5th Framework Programme.
He is a member of the advisory board for several grid related European and national projects as well as Associate editor for the FGCS grid computing journal. He regularly acts as an expert and reviewer for the IST programme.