The First Australian Grid Forum Workshop

Dec. 9-10, 2002, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

http://www.gridbus.org/ozgrid/

Program Schedule

DAY 1 – December, 2002

9.00-10.00         Workshop Opening

* Introduction

* Objectives for the Forum

10.00-10.15       Morning Tea Break

10.15-12.30     Session 1: Grid Infrastructure

Chair: Bill Applebe, VPAC

10.15-10.40       XVS --- Xcomp Virtual Supercomputer

Glenn Lewis, Xcomp Pty Ltd

10.40-11.05 Gridbus Technologies for Service-Oriented Cluster and Grid Computing

Rajkumar Buyya, University of Melbourne

11.05-11.30       Grid computing research at QUT
Wayne Kelly, Queensland University of Technology

11.30-11.55       DISCWorld, Virtual Data Grids and Grid Applications

Paul Coddington and Andrew Wendelborn, University of Adelaide

11.55-12.20 Nimrod 2.0 - Advanced Services for Parameter Sweep Application on the Grid

David Abramson, Slavisa Garic and Colin Enticott, Monash University

12.30-1.30         Lunch (on your own)

1.30 – 3.10      Session 2: Grid Application Development Tools

Chair: Wayne Kelly, Queensland University of Technology

1.30-1.55         PAGIS - An Architecture for Programming on the Grid
                        Andrew Wendelborn and Paul Coddington
 University of Adelaide

1.55-2.20          Visual Grid Application Development Environments: Parametric and Parallel Models for Creating Distributed Applications

                        Shoaib Burq, Jozsef Kovacs (MTA SZTAKI), and Rajkumar Buyya (Melbourne)

2.20-2.45          GriddLeS: Grid Enabling Legacy Software
David Abramson and Jagan Komineni, Monash University

2.45-3.10          Active Sheets - Grid Computing by Spreadsheets
Paul Roe, Gavin Cheuk and David Abramson, Monash University

3.10-3.25          Afternoon Tea Break

3.25-5.30         Session 3: Grid Testbed and Application Scheduling

                        Chair: Paul Coddington, University of Adelaide

3.25-3.50

The Australian Nimrod Testbed - utilising GrangeNet
Colin Enticott and David Abramson, Monash University

3.50-4.15          TRASC: A Globus Application Launcher

                        Sudarshan Ramachadran, VPAC

4.15-4.40          Grid Market Directory and Webservices

                        Jia Yu and Rajkumar Buyya, University of Melbourne

4.40-5.05          Gridbus Resource Broker for Application Service Costs-based Scheduling on Global Grids:  A Case Study in Brain Activity Analysis

                        Srikumar Venugopal, Rajkumar Buyya (Melbourne) and Susumu Date (Osaka)

5.05-5.30          G-monitor: A Gridbus Web Portal for Monitoring and Steering Application Execution on Global Grids

Martin Placek and Rajkumar Buyya, University of Melbourne

6.30 APAC Sponsored Dinner – Details to be Provided

DAY 2 – Dec. 10, 2002

9.00-10.40 Session 4: Grid Performance Engineering

                        Chair: Andrew Wendelborn, University of Adelaide

9.00-9.25 MOSIX/G: Grid Services under the MOSIX Operating System

                        Colin Enticott, Amnon Barak and David Abramson, Monash University

9.25-9.50          GridSim 2.0 – Advanced Grid Modelling and Simulation Toolkit

                        Rajkumar Buyya, Manzur Murshed (Monash), Anthony Sulistio,

                        and Chee Shin Yeo, University of Melbourne

9.50-10.15         Detection of Anomalous Behaviour in Grids

                        Albert Zomaya, University of Sydney

10.15-10.40       Nimrod/O - Optimal Engineering Design using the Grid

                        Tom Peachy, Andrew Lewis and David Abramson, Monash University

10.40-10.55       Morning Tea Break

10.55-12.30     Session 5: Data Intensive Computing Applications

                        Chair: Albert Zomaya, University of Sydney

10.55-11.20      Data-grids at the ANU
                        Jon Smillie, Stuart Hungerford, Markus Buchorn
 Australian National University

11.20-11.45       Grids, Data Grids, and Experimental Particle Physics

                        Lyle Winton, University of Melbourne

11.45-12.10       Distributed Molecular Docking for Drug Discovery on the World-Wide Grid

                        Rajkumar Buyya (Melbourne), Kim Branson (WEHI), and

                        David Abramson (Monash)

12.10-12.35 Grid Demonstrations

Participants interested in presenting a live demonstration of their Grid tools.
Internet Access is available.

12.35-1.30         Lunch (on your own)

1.30-2.30         Session 6: National Grid Program – Open Discussion Forum

· Australian Academic Grid Testbed Development

· Sharing Technologies and Expertise

· Developing Collaborations

2.30-3.00         Session 7: APAC II Grid: Plans and Future

John O'Callaghan, Australian Partnership for Advanced Computing

3.00-3.15          Afternoon Tea Break

3.15-4.15 Session 8: Australian Grid Forum (AGF) & Steering Committee Meeting

· Plans, Objectives, Working Groups

· Next AGF Events

4.15-4.30          Conclusions and Closing Remarks