GCA'06: June 26, 2006 Schedule

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

08:30 - 08:45am:  WORLDCOMP'06 Opening Remarks
                  Prof. Hamid R. Arabnia (General Chair & Coordinator)
                  University of Georgia, Georgia, USA
                  (LOCATION: Lance Burton Theater)

08:45 - 09:45am:  Keynote Lecture 1:
                  Erasing the Digital Divide: Putting Your Best Idea on the
                  $100 Laptop
                  Prof. Barry Vercoe
                  Founding Member of MIT Media Lab, MIT, USA
                  (LOCATION: Lance Burton Theater)

09:50 - 10:50am:  Keynote Lecture 2:
                  The Reinvention of the Microprocessor
                  Dr. Chris Rowen
                  President and CEO, Tensilica, Inc., USA
                  (LOCATION: Lance Burton Theater)

10:50 - 11:20am:  Increasing Diversity and Participation in Advanced Computing
                  Dr. John R. Boisseau
                  Director, Texas Advanced Computing Center,
                  The University of Texas at Austin, Texas, USA
                  (LOCATION: Lance Burton Theater)

11:20a - 12:20p:  Panel - Performance and Connectivity on the $100 Laptop
                  Panel Chair: Prof. Barry Vercoe, MIT Media Lab, MIT, USA
                  Panelists: Jim Gettys* and Michail Bletsas**
                  *Vice President, Software Engineering, OLPC
                  **Chief Connectivity Officer, OLPC
                  (LOCATION: Lance Burton Theater)

12:20 - 01:40pm:  Lunch (On Your Own)


SESSION 1-GCA:    GRID COMPUTING SERVICES AND RESOURCE MANAGEMENT
                  Chair:  Prof. Kuan-Ching Li
                  Providence University, Taiwan
                  June 26, 2006 (Monday);  01:40pm - 03:20pm
                  (LOCATION: Conference Room D)

01:40 - 02:00pm:  FREE SLOT

02:00 - 02:20pm:  Datagrid Authentication via GSI Certificates Within a
                  Very Large Global File System
                  Phil Andrews, Christopher Jordan, and Patricia Kovatch
                  San Diego Supercomputer Center, University of California, USA

02:20 - 02:40pm:  A New Variation of Chord with Novel Improvement on Lookup
                  Locality
                  Jie Wang and Zhijun Yu
                  University of Massachusetts Lowell, Massachusetts, USA

02:40 - 03:00pm:  Grid Policy Administrator with MDP-Based Resource
                  Management Scheme
                  Sang-Il Lee, Youngjoo Han, Hyewon Song, Changhee Han,
                  and Chan-Hyun Youn
                  Information and Communications University, Korea

03:00 - 03:20pm:  Leveraging the Grid for the Autonomic Management of Complex
                  Infrastructures
                  Silvio Salza*, Yuri Di Carlo**, Flavio Lombardi**, and
                  Roberto Puccinelli**
                  *Universita di Roma La Sapienza, Italy
                  **Sistemi Informativi - CNR, Italy

03:20 - 03:40pm:  BREAK


SESSION 2-GCA:    GRID COMPUTING APPLICATIONS
                  Chair:  Dr. Baijian Yang
                  Ball State University, Indiana, USA
                  June 26, 2006 (Monday);  03:40pm - 04:40pm
                  (LOCATION: Conference Room D)

03:40 - 04:00pm:  Service-Based Resource Brokering for Grid-based Data Mining
                  Valentin Kravtsov, Thomas Niessen, Vlado Stankovski,
                  and Assaf Schuster
                  Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel
                  Fraunhofer Institute for Autonomous intelligent Systems, Germany
                  University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia

04:00 - 04:20pm:  Distributed Data Repository Supporting Ad-Hoc Collaborations
                  Tomasz Haupt, Anand Kalyanasundaram, and Igor Zhuk
                  Mississippi State University, USA

04:20 - 04:40pm:  Teragrid's Tools for Massive Data Movement
                  Anthony Vu, Martin W. Margo, Patricia Kovatch, Christopher Jordan,
                  Richard L. Moore, and William Allcock
                  University of California, San Diego, California, USA
                  Argonne National Laboratory, USA

04:40 - 06:00pm:  BREAK


06:00 - 9:00pm:   TWO TUTORIALS  (planned)

                  CONFERENCE TUTORIAL A
                  Alice: Using Animation to Teach Introductory Programming
                  Dr. H. Keith Edwards
                  University of Hawaii - Hilo, USA
                  June 26, 2006 (Monday)
                  (LOCATION: Meeting Room 7)

                  CONFERENCE TUTORIAL B
                  An Introduction to Biometric Recognition Systems
                  Dr. M. Deriche
                  KFUPM, Saudi Arabia
                  June 26, 2006 (Monday)
                  (LOCATION: Meeting Room 8)


09:00 - 11:00pm:  CONFERENCE RECEPTION DINNER - June 26 (Monday)
                  (LOCATION: Meeting Rooms 1-5)

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