Open Cirrus singapore
Open Cirrus Singapore Session Chair: Donald Tan (National Grid Office)
Session Chair: Napat Chalakornkosol (National Grid Office)
Session Chair: Napat Chalakornkosol (National Grid Office)
Open Cirrus Singapore Abstract In this talk, we will share some of the updates on Open Cirrus at a worldwide level and also provide information on some of the research work done on this platform by HP Labs. . . . Biodata of Napat Chalakornkosol Napat graduated with a Bachelors Degree of Computer Engineering from Kasetsart University, Bangkok, Thailand and was member of High Performance Computing and Networking Center. Prior to his graduation, his final year project on Cluster & Grid monitoring platform was nominated and presented at IEEE CCGrid 2003, Tokyo. Biodata of Thillai Raj As CTO and Head of Software Development & Central Engineering in MIMOS, he is the driver behind the National Grid Computing Initiative, also known as KnowledgeGRID Malaysia. Mr. Thillai Raj is also running Advance Software Development consisting of:
He was previously attached with Motorola as a Director for Systems Engineering Group and as a Senior Director of Global Engineering in Flextronics. Later, he was instrumental in setting up the Motorola Software Design Centre in Cyberjaya. The design centre achieved SEI CMM & CMMI Level 5 under his guidance. Thillai Raj has 7 patents to his name and holds a Six Sigma Blackbelt. Biodata of Han Namgoong
Biodata of Dr. Marcel Kunze After physics and informatics studies at Karlsruhe University, Bochum University and CERN he joined the BABAR collaboration at SLAC / Stanford University to investigate and further develop the Grid Computing paradigm for distributed processing of particle physics data. In 2002 Dr. Kunze joined Research Centre Karlsruhe as a department leader for “Grid Computing and e-Science” to work on the establishment of the LHC Computing Grid. He was spiritus rector of the German D-Grid initiative and served many years in the management board of the EGEE project to represent Germany and Switzerland. In the recently founded Karlsruhe Institute of Technology he is now committed to R&D in the field of service oriented architectures, virtualization techniques and system development for Cloud Computing. His teams are active in many national and international projects, the most important being D-Grid, EGEE, EUFORIA, g-Eclipse and Open Cirrus. . . . Abstract Recently, to address the issue of noise distortion, margin-based training methods like soft-margin estimation (SME) have been applied to the training of HMM based acoustic models. The method is shown to be effective in improving the resulting model’s robustness against noise distortion. While the training of the HMM based acoustic models does not require much computation time, it is necessary to train the model multiple times to ensure the accuracy of the model. This multi-iteration training causes the training to take up quite a significant amount of CPU time in a dedicated HPC setting. In this project, we make use of Apache Hadoop to parallelize the model training phase of a Speech Recognition System for a distributed environment. We also show some issues when using Hadoop and how its performance can be further fine tuned through the aid of visualization tools. . . . Abstract . . . Abstract Inspired by the question above, we conducted an in-depth performance study of MapReduce in its open source implementation, Hadoop. We identify four factors that have significant performance efficient on MapReduce, and investigate alternative strategies for each factor. Finally, we evaluate the performance of MapReduce on a representative yet tractable combinations of the four factors. The results show that with proper implementation, the performance of MapReduce can be improved by a factor of 2.5 to 3.5 and approaches to Parallel Databases. Our results show that it is possible to build a MapReduce-based system that is not only flexible and scalable, but is also efficient. Shi Lei’s research interests include cloud computing infrastructure, parallel and distributed database theories and applications. Shi Lei has been using Hadoop since 2008. He is now a member of Singapore Special Interest Group on Hadoop (Hadoop SIG). . . . Abstract The project studies the feasibility of using cloud computing to provide both offline and online analytical support for taxi fleet operations. In this preliminary study, we benchmark the performance gains from distributing the analysis of GPS location traces over multiple virtual machines using the Hadoop framework. Our dataset consists of about 200 gigabytes of GPS location traces (over 2 billion observations) provided by a Singapore taxi company. At CloudAsia 2010, we will present preliminary results from our benchmarking study and comment on their implications for potential applications of the Open Cirrus platform in the transportation domain. . .
. Abstract As CTO and Head of Software Development & Central Engineering in MIMOS, he is the driver behind the National Grid Computing Initiative, also known as KnowledgeGRID Malaysia. Mr. Thillai Raj is also running Advance Software Development consisting of:
He was previously attached with Motorola as a Director for Systems Engineering Group and as a Senior Director of Global Engineering in Flextronics. Later, he was instrumental in setting up the Motorola Software Design Centre in Cyberjaya. The design centre achieved SEI CMM & CMMI Level 5 under his guidance. Thillai Raj has 7 patents to his name and holds a Six Sigma Blackbelt.. . . Abstract Biodata . . . Abstract Biodata Previously, Whitney managed HP Services' research and innovation group, focused on developing new services and solutions for HP Consulting, Integration, Outsourcing and Support organizations. From 2000 to 2005 he held vice president roles at Exodus Communications and at Cable & Wireless, where he developed lights-out, virtualized, automated data center solutions. He also founded ActiveReasoning, a California-based startup company developing data center compliance and management software. Earlier roles included work in HP’s Customer Relationship Management Operation, where he led the research and development organization in developing automated call center and customer management software. Whitney first joined HP Labs in 1994, developing automated service-management capabilities for HP’s OpenView and other products. He received his bachelor of science in computer science from Teesside University and a master of science from South Bank University, London. |
Jason Tan is Director of Operations for HP Labs Singapore and holds a joint appointment as Program Director for Strategic Research and Infrastructure at Hewlett-Packard Singapore. In his capacity as Program Director, he worked with local country management to drive the new growth initiatives for HP Singapore, including Cloud Computing and software as a service. He is also the Director of Operations for HP Labs Singapore, driving research activities between Singapore and HP Labs Singapore. Prior to this, he was Business Development Manager for the High Performance Computing (HPC) and online gaming at HP South East Asia. This key responsibility was to develop grid computing, life science, digital media and online gaming industry in the region. Jason has extensive industry and technical experience in HPC especially in Life Science, Grid Computing and online gaming. He worked as country strategic business manager in Singapore and had driven several key initiatives in Singapore, such as HP's participation in National Grid program, utility computing, research collaboration, digital media and online gaming. Jason holds a bachelor degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.
Napat is an Assistant Manager at Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore (IDA). Before joining IDA, Napat involved in various projects on High Performance Computing, Cluster Computing, Grid Computing and Cloud Computing. He conducted Grid-related training courses and provided his expertise in grid-enable applications under the National Grid Competency Centre. At IDA, Napat manages the Open Cirrus Cloud Computing projects as well as conducts the Hadoop for Users Training courses.
Thillai Raj holds a Bachelor of Technology in Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology in Chennai, India and joined MIMOS with more than 20 years experience in Electronic Design and Manufacturing.
Han Namgoong is the Director of the Cloud Computing Research Department of the Software Research Laboratory at the Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI), South Korea.
Heading the research group “Cloud Computing” at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technololgy, Dr. Marcel Kunze is a technical lead in the Open Cirrus HP-Intel-Yahoo Cloud Computing testbed. 
Tan Yu Shyang Alan, is currently working as a Project Officer in the Parallel Distributed and Computing Center at the School of Computer Engineering, Nanyang Technological University. He is also currently pursuing a part time Masters in Engineering under the same faculty. He was previously working on projects in the Grid and Cloud Virtualization area and was involved in setting up a Cloud virtualization test bed. His current research interest is in the use of Hadoop framework in a heterogeneous architecture cluster consisting of GPUs and CPUs. Alan has also been involved in several projects which utilizes Hadoop. These projects ranges from using Hadoop to help effectively process log files from the Internet root DNS servers to analyze their availability and effectiveness to the performance evaluation and fine tuning of Hadoop from the user’s aspect.
Qin Zheng received the B. Eng. degree in Information Engineering from Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, China in July 2001 and the Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from National University of Singapore, Singapore in January 2006. He then worked as a Research Fellow in the same department till November 2007 when he joined the Institute of High Performance Computing (IHPC), Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), Singapore. His research interest is in Cloud/Grid/HPC on fault tolerance, pricing, load balancing, MapReduce/Hadoop, data management, and robust scheduling. He is a member of ACM, IEEE, IEEE Computer Society, and Vice Program Chair for HCW 2010, to be held in conjunction with IEEE IPDPS 2010.
Shi Lei received his bachelor degree in College of Information Science and Engineering, Northeastern University, China in 2008. Currently he is a Ph.D candidate in School of Computing, National University of Singapore.
All three researchers are affiliated with the SMU School of Information Systems, which generously supported this work. Alvin Koh is a second-year undergraduate student whose interests lie at the intersection of technology, business and social work. Khoa Nguyen is a research engineer interested in researching large-scale distributed systems. Jason Woodard is an assistant professor of information systems. His current research focuses on the evolution of new software platforms.
Bharadwaj Veeravalli, Member, IEEE & IEEE-CS, received his BSc in Physics, from Madurai-Kamaraj University, India in 1987, Master's in Electrical Communication Engineering from Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore, India in 1991 and PhD from Department of Aerospace Engineering, IISc, Bangalore, India in 1994. He received Gold Medals for his Bachelor's Degree overall performance and for an outstanding PhD thesis (Sabitha Chowdhary Gold Medal, IISc, Bangalore India) in the years 1987 and 1994, respectively.. He did his post-doctoral research in the Department of Computer Science, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada, in 1996. He is currently with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Communications and Information Engineering (CIE) division, at The National University of Singapore, Singapore, as a tenured Associate Professor. His main stream research interests include, Cloud/Grid/Cluster Computing, Scheduling in Parallel and Distributed Systems, Bioinformatics & Computational Biology, and Multimedia Computing. He is one of the earliest researchers in the field of Divisible Load Theory (DLT). He had successfully secured several externally funded projects. He has published over 100 papers in high-quality International Journals and Conferences. He has co-authored three research monographs in the areas of PDS, Distributed Databases (Competitive Algorithms), and Networked Multimedia Systems, in the years 1996, 2003, and 2005, respectively. He had guest edited a special issue on Cluster/Grid Computing for IJCA, USA journal in 2004. He is currently serving the Editorial Board of IEEE Transactions on Computers, IEEE Transactions on SMC-A, Multimedia Tools & Applications (MTAP) and Cluster Computing, as an Associate Editor. He is a Visiting Professor with HUST, Wuhan, China, since June 2007. He had served as a program committee member and as a Session Chair in several International Conferences. Visit his page – 
Chris Whitney is managing director of HP Labs Singapore. He has been involved in service automation and integration since joining BT Labs in 1985 where he was responsible for developing algorithms and prototypes of intelligent service and network management systems for use in public and private communications networks.
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