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TUTORIAL IV
Title: New Internet and Networking Technologies for Grids and High-Performance Computing
Congduc PHAM
University of Lyon, LIP (CNRS-INRIA-ENS-UCBL).

Audience: Any one with an engineering degree, preferably Computer Science will find this course useful. It is also useful for any practicing engineer or a scientist in a research and development establishment and for teachers in academic institutions.

Course Description: Internet technologies are used daily by millions of people worldwide for communication, work or even entertainment. The Internet has very rapidly become part of the scientist's life for exchanging information, first with e-mail, and then with the World Wide Web (WWW) which has truly revolutionized the way the scientific community is cooperating. Since the WWW revolution in 1993, we are now at the dawn of a new revolution consisting in using the Internet infrastructure for complex problem solving and for more cooperation in a large variety of Computational Sciences. This talk will briefly present the emerging computational grid technologies and infrastructures, and then focuses on the new Internet technologies such as DiffServ, MPLS, Multicast and Overlay networks, Active networking and high performance transport protocols; that will be very soon released for providing high-bandwidth, secure and ubiquitous connectivity for a new era of scientific applications. Besides presenting in a didactic manner how these new technologies work, examples will be given throughout the tutorial to show how these new technologies could be deployed and used on grid infrastructures.

Lecturer(s):CongDuc Pham obtained his PhD in Computer Science in July 1997 at the LIP6 Laboratory (Laboratoire d'Informatique de Paris 6), University Pierre and Marie Curie. He also received his Habilitation in 2003 from University Claude Bernard, Lyon, France. He spent one year at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) as a post-doctoral fellow. His research interests include parallel discrete event simulation, cluster computing, active networking and networking protocols. He has been involved in several grid computing projects from the networking perspective. He has published more than 30 papers in international conferences and journals, has been reviewers for a numerous of international conferences and magazines, and has participate to several conference program committees. He is a member of IEEE.