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Abstract : e-Science in the Philippines is finally taking shape. After one and a half years of infrastructure and software development, researchers from the academe and the government are coming forward with computing-intensive projects that will ultimately run on the Grid. This paper highlights the existing and potential users together with their contributions to e-Science. Research areas vary from meteorology to oceanography to bioinformatics.

Biodata : Rey Vincent Babilonia is a senior specialist with the Advanced Science and Technology Institute. He is currently involved in building the Philippine e-Science Grid infrastructure and in developing bioinformatics solutions. He worked with the PREGINET, the research and education network of the philippines, wherein he made contributions in digital content systems library management system, network management system and IPv6 research. His research interests include software development, Web development, IPv4 and IPv6 networking, and distributed and parallel computing. Mr Babilonia took his Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science from the University of the Philippines in Diliman and his Master of Information Systems degree from the University of the Philippines Open University.

2. MetaCentrum - Czech Education and Scientific e-Infrastructure
Speaker : Jan Kmunicek, PhD, Senior Researcher, CESNET, CZ

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Abstract : The MetaCentrum project, an activity of the CESNET association, leads major activites concerning high performance and distribtued computing and data facilities ( Grids ) in the Czech Republic. MetaCentrum is responsible for building the National Grid and its integration to related international activities. MetaCentrum operates and manages distributed computing infrastructure consisting of computing and storage resources owned by CESNET as well as resources of co-operative academic centres within the Czech Republic. MetaCentrum infrastructure is highly virtualized, allowing to build user oriented virtual clusters running fine tuned environments for particular applications. MetaCentrum production services are provided to whole Czech academic community with applications covering wide range of domains from chemistry, life sciences, biomedicine, through engineering applications based on finite element modelling up to physics and astronomy. This contribution is focused on current MetaCentrum structural biology research comprising from many distinct areas creating huge amount of challenging problems as engineering of enzymatic structures, QM / MM studies of catalysis, gaining insight into the binding process, protein structure and prediction, protein-docking, multidimensional parametric studies, genome / genome evolution analysis and many others.

Biodata : Jan Kmunicek, PhD currently works as a senior researcher at CESNET. He is actively involved in the EGEE II project, where he is responsible for application porting and training, and also in the EGI_DS, where his responsibility is primary in Grid use case collection and analysis. In the EUAsiaGrid project, he contributes to all the workpackages CESNET is involved in, being the CESNET lead person for the computational chemistry area and also having responsiblility for the training activities.

3. DUMBO : An Emergency Network in Action ( Remote )
Speaker : Prof Kanchana Kanchanasut, Director IntERlab, Asian Institute of Technology, TH

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Abstract : Project DUMBO deploys mobile wireless network on an ad hoc basis for emergency conditions, such as after a natural disaster when a fixed network infrastructure is not available or had been destroyed. DUMBO allows streaming video, VoIP and short messages to be simultaneously transmitted from a number of mobile laptops to the central command center, or to the other rescuers at the same or different disaster sites. In this talk, the project and its real life action for cyclone Nargis mitigation will be presented.

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4. EUAsiaGrid Natural Disaster Mitigation on Earthquake
Speaker : Eric Yen, Academia Sinica Grid Computing Center ( ASGC ), TW

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Abstract : Earthquake is one of the most catastrophic geological type natural disaster in Asia. Although it's still unpredictable, analysis of seismic wave propagation to simulate the impact to certain area would be an essential method to earthquake mitigation. Disaster mitigation is a complicated, multi-disciplinary, time-consuming, and of vital importance task. Objectives of this task are to demonstrate the effective colloboration on risk reduction by taking advantage of gLite infrastructure. Natural hazard mitigation lies on accurate risk estimation and the effective mitigation plan could be devised accordingly. Challenges here are that even though the global model is available in terms of computing system and data, but we need regional model for much accurate impact analysis. Moreover, historical data, simulation model and also the alleviation strategy have to be taken into account altogether. These imply more computational and data resources are required and which is exactly what Grid is good at. In this report, the design, implementation of grid for earthquake disaster mitigation on EUAsiaGrid would be introduced.

Biodata : Eric Yen is an associate research scientist of Academia Sinica Grid Computing Center ( ASGC ), who is the technical manager of ASGC to conduct the e-Science infrastructure, core technology and application development in ASGC. Eric Yen is also acting as the Natural Disaster Mitigation task leader of WP3 in ERAsiaGrid Project.

5. Malaysia's Experience in WSN-based Slope Monitoring System
Speaker : Dr Raja Syamsul Azmir Raja Abdullah, Director, Wireless and Photonics Network Research Centre ( WiPNET ), Faculty of Engineering, UPM

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6. Towards the Implementation of Wireless Sensor Technology in Malaysia
Speaker : Prof Dr Borhanuddin Mohd Ali, Director, National Centre of Excellence for Sensor Technology ( NEST )

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7. The Asian Bioinformation Center ( ABC ) initiative
Speaker : Rohit Reja, Korean Bioinformation Center ( KOBIC ), Korea

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Abstract : The ABC is a virtual Asian collaboration center for large scale omics and bioinformatics projects such as personal genomics and variomics as the first step towards a larger Asian framework for Bioinformation, which is coordinating and leading the effort towards excellence in research, education and service in bioinformatics in Asia. The ABC initiative which is endorsed by APBioNET, e-IMBL, and A-IMBN is a proposal to forge ahead Asian coopertaion to realize this vision of helping Asian nations contribute more towards the global community, and be more self-reliant and more self-sufficient in our computational and database needs in the life science, and to support a new generation of healthcare based on biomedical information.

Biodata : Rohit is currently the HQ secretariat of the Asian Bioinformation Center project of the Korean Bioinformation Center ( KOBIC ). He has completed Bachelor's degree in Bioinformatics in 2008 from VIT university, India. Currently, he is a graduate student at University of Science and Technology, Korea and a research assistant at Korean Bioinformation Center ( KOBIC ), Korea.

8. EUAsiaGrid
Speaker : Associate Prof. Ludek Matyska

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The EUAsiaGrid project contributes to the wide depolyment and efficient use of the grid infrastructures, with the specific emphasis on infrastructure built using the gLite middleware. The project provides directed support to scientific communities and works on a roadmap to federated grid infrastructure in the Asia-Pacific region. The project organizes regular training events and workshops, participated in many dissemination events at national and international levels, and also co-organized two important conferences, the ISGC08 and ISCG09. In the second year, the project will focus on data and compute chanllenges to demonstrate strength of international collaboration and on continuing directed approach or reserach communities in the Asia-Pacific region.

Biodata : Ludek Matyska is an Associate Prof. at Marsaryk University in Brno and also affiliated with CESNET, the CZech NREN also responsible for national grid infrastructure in the CZech Republic. He chairs the national grid projects since 1998, he is WP3 leader of the EUAsiaGrid project, serves in Project Management Board of the EGEE series of projects and is also a Project Director of the EU European Grid Initiative Design Study, aimed to develop and implement the framework for sustainable grid infrastructure in Europe. His research interests are in high speed networks and their applications and in large scale distributed computing. Ge published over 100 scientific papers in journal and international conference proceedings.

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