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FAU Hosts 6th Latin American Grid Summit

Florida Atlantic University is hosting the Sixth Latin American Summit October 30-31, 2008. Exciting research developments will be presented from several LA Grid participants. Additionally, FAU and FIU students who participated in the summer 2008 PIRE program will be presenting results of their work and experiences abroad. The agenda for this event follows.

Sixth LA Grid Summit 2008 – Agenda

Florida Atlantic University
Day 1, 10/30/08

08:30 WELCOME – Juan Caraballo, Yi Deng, Carl Stevens

  • Introductions, Agenda

09:00 RESEARCH AGENDA HIGHLIGHTS/ACCOMPLISHMENTS (15 min each)

  • Akmal Younis – Bioinformatics
  • Pete Martinez - Healthcare
  • Hill Zhu – Bioinformatics
  • Raúl V. Ramírez Velarde –Simulation of Complex Environmental, Economic and Health Systems
  • Alfonso Lastras Martinez –Use of Computational Grids for Natural Disasters Mitigation
  • BREAK
  • Pat Welsh- Hurricane Mitigation
  • Masoud Sadjadi - Job Workflow
  • Liana Fong- Meta Scheduling
  • Hector Duran - Resource Management
  • Rosa Badia – Profiling

12:30 LUNCH & STUDENT POSTER SESSION

13:45 INTERNATIONAL EXPERIENCE/RESEARCH COLLABORATIONS

  • Student/faculty presenters - 3 FIU, 2 FAU, 1 UNF, 1 UM, 1 UG

FAU:

  • Ingrid Buckley, Master’s Student, FAU - Web Services Reliability Patterns
  • Jan Mangs, Master’s Student, FAU - Accessing the Grid From Mobile Devices

FIU:

  • Javier Delgado, PhD Student, FIU & Marlon Bright, Bachelor’s Student, FIU - Application Profiling and Prediction in the Grid Environment
  • Selim Kalayci, PhD Candidate, FIU - Pattern Based Fault-Tolerance? at Workflow Management Systems
  • Camilo Silva, Bachelor’s Student - Finding Repeats and Signatures in DNA Sequences Using MPI Clusters

15:45 BREAK

16:00 INTERNATIONAL COLLABORATION PANEL DISCUSSION

  • Academic, Industry and Student Researchers
  • PIRE Facilitators

17:00 DAY 1 CONCLUDING REMARKS

17:15 PARALLEL TRACKS

  • RESEARCH SUB-TEAM BREAKOUTS (60 minutes)
  • BOARD OF GOVERNORS MEETING (60 minutes, closed session)

19:00 SOCIAL DINNER

Day 2, 10/31/08

08:00 PARALLEL TRACKS

  • DISASTER MANAGEMENT: BUSINESS CONTINUITY INFORMATION NETWORK (BCIN) / RESEARCH INITIATIVES

  • BIOINFORMATICS/HEALTHCARE

09:45 BREAK

10:00 DISASTER MANAGEMENT (CONT’D)

12:00 LUNCH & NETWORKING

13:00 PARALLEL TRACKS

  • WEATHER RESEARCH AND FORECASTING (WRF) MODEL ENSEMBLE

  • INFRASTRUCTURE / GLOBUS TRAINING (1 Hour)

15:45 BREAK

16:00 PIRE PI MEETING (2 hours, closed session)

Student Posters

FAU Students:

  • Alex Kotlarchyk, PhD Student, FAU - BioInformatics Algorithms for High Performance Computing
  • Ingrid Buckley, Master’s Student, FAU - Web Services Reliability Patterns
  • Paula A. Carrillo, Master’s Student, FAU - Data Mining for Video Encoding (low complexity H.264)
  • Christopher Holder, Master’s Student, FAU - Data Mining for Video Transcoding and Encoding
  • Jan Mangs, Master’s Student, FAU - Accessing the Grid From Mobile Devices
  • Simone Pasmore, Master’s Student, FAU - Web Accessibility for the Hearing Impaired
  • Juan Bernal, Bachelor’s Student, FAU - Data Mining and Machine Learning Cross Validation over Distributed Networks
  • Justin Beyer, Bachelor’s Student, FAU - Gene Selection for Cancer Classification
  • Lina Ortega, Bachelor’s Student, FAU - Text, Image, and Audio/Video Datasets

FIU Students:

  • Kasturi Chatterjee, PhD Candidate, FIU - Using Graph Similarity for Social Network Analysis
  • Javier Delgado, PhD Student, FIU - Application Profiling and Prediction in the Grid Environment
  • Selim Kalayci, PhD Candidate, FIU - Pattern Based Fault-Tolerance at Workflow Management Systems
  • Tariq M. King, PhD Candidate, FIU - Leveraging Traceability Recovery in Test Planning and Optimization
  • Ricardo Koller, PhD Student, FIU - APOS: An application Level Power Oracle for virtualized Servers
  • Allison Lanager, Master’s Student, FIU - A Web-Based Portal for Hurricane Mitigation
  • Marlon Bright, Bachelor’s Student, FIU - Application Profiling and Prediction in the Grid Environment
  • Sean Leslie, Bachelor’s Student, FIU - A Web-Based Portal for Hurricane Mitigation
  • Camilo Silva, Bachelor’s Student - Finding Repeats and Signatures in DNA Sequences Using MPI Clusters

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