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Closing Conference - Programme26th March 2007 (Day 1) Keynote Speech: Eric Boyd, Network Developments and Network Monitoring in Internet2. Eric Boyd is the Director of the Performance Architectures & Technologies group within Internet2. He is responsible for the activities of the End-to-End Performance Initiative, several Working Groups, and several international network measurement collaboration efforts. Eric is one of the chairs of the Global Grid Forum’s Network Measurement Working Group and actively involved in the Internet2-GEANT2-ESnet collaboration over ‘perfSONAR,’ an interoperable measurement framework. He is a leader in the design and development of advanced architecture- and network-based performance analysis techniques and tools for both academic and commercial arenas. Eric earned his doctorate at the University of Michigan, writing his thesis on the Performance Evaluation and Improvement of High Performance Architectures and Applications. He served as an engineering principal in the Unix Groups of both Compaq/Digital and Hewlett-Packard writing advanced performance analysis tools for enterprise-class servers. He led the research and development group at SolidSpeed Networks, creating such products as a content delivery network, a distributed peer-to-peer website performance measuring system, and a software-based global load balancer.
27th March 2007 (Day 2) Keynote Speech: Edward Seidel, Emerging Technologies and Applications for e-Science. Edward Seidel is the director of the Center for Computation & Technology at Louisiana State University and the Floating Point Systems Professor in LSU's Departments of Physics and Astronomy, and Computer Science. Seidel is well known for his work on numerical relativity and black holes, as well as in high-performance and grid computing. He earned his Ph.D. from Yale University in relativistic astrophysics. He headed the numerical relativity group as a professor at the Max-Planck-Institut fuer Gravitationsphysik (Albert-Einstein-Institute) in Germany from 1996 - 2003, where he maintains an affiliation. He was previously a senior research scientist at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications and associate professor in the Physics Department at the University of Illinois. Seidel is a recipient of the 1998 Heinz-Billing-Preis of the Max-Planck-Gesellschaft; a recipient of the 2001 Gordon Bell Prize; and winner of various HPC Challenge awards at SC98, SC01 and SC02. In 2004, Seidel was named the Rising Star of the Year at the Governor's Technology Awards in Louisiana and one of HPCwire's Top People and Organizations to Watch. In 2006 he was chosen as the recipient of the Sidney Fernbach Memorial Award. Seidel has been the PI or CoPI on large grants in Physics and Computational Science from NSF, DOE, NASA, the German DFN-Verein, and the European Commission, where he led the EU Astrophysics Network and was a leader in the GridLab project. He is the co-chair (emeritus) of the Applications Research Group, Global Grid Forum and chief scientist for the Louisiana Optical Network Initiative (LONI). He is the author or co-author of more than 150 publications and serves on numerous national and international committees and advisory boards.
28th March 2007 (Day 3) Keynote Speech: Cees de Laat, Recent developments in Lambda networking. Cees de Laat is associate professor in the Informatics Institute at the University of Amsterdam. Current research in his group includes optical/switched networking to optimize Internet transport of massive amounts of data, distributed cross organization Authorization architectures, grid Workflow systems and systems security. With SURFnet he implements projects in the GigaPort Research on Networks. He collaborates in the NSF- OptIPuter project. He serves as Grid Forum Steering Group (GFSG) Infrastructure Area Director and IETF Liaison. He is co-founder and organizer of several of the past meetings of the Global Lambda Integrated Facility (GLIF). <http://www.science.uva.nl/~delaat>
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