GCA'08: July 14, 2008 Schedule

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6:30am - 5:00pm:  Registration (Second Floor, Conference Lobby: 1-5)


08:30 - 08:45am:  WORLDCOMP'08 Opening Remarks
                  Prof. Hamid R. Arabnia (General Chair & Coordinator)
                  University of Georgia, Georgia, USA
                  (LOCATION: Lance Burton Theater)

08:45 - 09:35am:  Keynote Lecture 1:
                  The Parallel Computing Landscape: A Berkeley View 2.0
                  Prof. David A. Patterson
                  Pardee Prof. of CS; Director, RAD Lab & Par Lab; Past
                  President, ACM; Member, National Academy of Engineering;
                  Member, National Academy of Sciences; Fellow of IEEE, ACM,
                  & AAAS; University of California at Berkeley.
                  (LOCATION: Lance Burton Theater)

09:40 - 10:25am:  Keynote Lecture 2:
                  Searching in the "Real World"
                  Prof. Ophir Frieder
                  The Royden B. Davis, SJ, Chair in Interdisciplinary
                  Studies at Georgetown University; IITRI Chair Professor
                  of CS at Illinois Institute of Technology; Director,
                  Information Retrieval lab; Fellow of IEEE, ACM, and AAAS
                  (LOCATION: Lance Burton Theater)

10:30 - 11:15am:  Keynote Lecture 3:
                  Achieving your Dreams
                  Anousheh Ansari
                  CEO, Chairman and Co-founder of Prodea Systems, Inc., USA;
                  Space Ambassador
                  (LOCATION: Lance Burton Theater)

11:15a - 12:00p:  Keynote Lecture 4:
                  Dimensions in Reconfigurable Computing: A New Wave in
                  Electronic System Designs
                  Chris Phillips
                  Vice President of Engineering at ElementCXI, USA
                  (LOCATION: Lance Burton Theater)

12:00 - 02:00pm:  LUNCH (On Your Own)

02:00 - 04:00pm:  During this period, GCA'08 attendees are encouraged to participate
                  in sessions belonging to PDPTA'08, CDES'08, ICOMP'08, SWWS'08,
                  SAM'08, IKE'08, EEE'08, FECS'08, or CIC'08.  These sessions discuss
                  topics that overlap the scope of GCA'08.


SESSION 1-GCA:    GRID SERVICES, SCHEDULING, AND RESOURCE MANAGEMENT + RELATED ISSUES
                  Chair: TBA
                  July 14, 2008 (Monday); 04:00pm - 06:40pm
                  (LOCATION: Silver Room)

04:00 - 04:20pm:  Network-aware Peer-to-Peer Based Grid Inter-Domain Scheduling
                  Agustin Caminero, Omer Rana, Blanca Caminero, and Carmen Carrion
                  The University of Castilla La Mancha, Albacete, Spain;
                  Cardiff School of Computer Science, Cardiff, UK

04:20 - 04:40pm:  Using a Web-based Framework to Manage Grid Deployments
                  George Oikonomou and Theodore Apostolopoulos
                  Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece

04:40 - 05:00pm:  A QoS Guided Workflow Scheduling Algorithm for the Grid
                  Fangpeng Dong
                  Queen's University, Kingston, ON, Canada

05:00 - 05:20pm:  A Grid Resource Broker with Dynamic Loading Prediction Scheduling
                  Algorithm in Grid Computing Environment
                  Yi-Lun Pan, Chang-Hsing Wu, and Weicheng Huang
                  National Center High-performance Computing, Hsinchu, Taiwan

05:20 - 05:40pm:  Measurement of Services for Performance Evaluation
                  Niko Zenker and Martin Kunz
                  Otto-von-Guericke Univeristt Magdeburg, Germany

05:40 - 06:00pm:  Experience in Testing the Grid based Workload Management System
                  of a LHC Experiment
                  V. Miccio, A. Fanfani, D. Spiga, M. Cinquilli, G. Codispoti,
                  F. Fanzago, F. Farina, S. Lacaprara, E. Vaandering, A. Sciab, S. Belforte
                  CERN / University of Bologna

06:00 - 06:20pm:  Auction Algorithms for Resource Management with Grouping of
                  Gridlets in Grid Environment
                  G. P. Bhole and Dhadiwal Gaurav T.

06:20 - 06:40pm:  Implementation of Enhanced Reflective Meta Object to Address
                  Issues Related to Contractual Resource Sharing within Ad-hoc
                  Grid Environments
                  Syed Alam, Norlaily Yaacob, and Anthony Godwin
                  Coventry University, Coventry, UK


06:00 - 09:00pm:  Tutorials (please see the list of tutorials)

09:10 - 11:30pm:  CONFERENCE RECEPTION DINNER & BANQUET KEYNOTE - July 14 (Monday)
                  High Performance Computing and Computational Intelligence: Link
                  to the Translational Medicine and Personalized Healthcare
                  Dr. Jack Y. Yang and Dr. Mary Qu Yang
                  Harvard University, Massachusetts, USA and
                  National Human Genome Research Institute, NIH, Bethesda, USA
                  (LOCATION: Ballrooms 1-5)

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