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I am Jeff Tan, lecturer with the Caulfield School of I.T., Faculty of Information Technology, Monash University. I am presently working with Professor David Abramson and the Monash e-Science and Grid Engineering Laboratory (Message Lab). I am also presently working with the Monash e-Research Centre as a software specialist, supporting current and prospective users of Nimrod as well as the university's high-performance and high-throughput computing facilities.

My research focuses on security and connectivity issues surrounding the deployment of Grid applications such as the parameter sweep meta-scheduler, Nimrod/G. Some aspects of my project, REMUS (RErouting and MUltiplexing System), are described in this wiki. Romulus, the firewall virtualization counterpart of Remus, is described in this wiki page. I have also started looking at network management extensions for grid environments.

I also occasionally post on a personal blog on gadgets and other "geeky" matters, and another one on Catholic matters. I also look after the website for the Catholics on Campus for the locals at Monash University.
Chief Examiner, 2012:
  1. Network Administration (FIT3149, previously FIT2018)
  2. Network Administration & Management (FIT5034)
  3. Network Standards & Specifications (FIT2019)
  4. Network Design & Deployment (FIT3130)
  5. Networks & Data Communications (FIT1005)
Thesis Supervision:

I currently work with four postgrad students on various areas in computational grid management and monitoring and network security. Previously I had worked with postgrads on connectivity issues in computational grids. I am interested in work involving data integration, metamodeling, and metadata management (my PhD area).

Those who are not currently students of the university should email Research Degrees staff for enquiries about supervision and scholarships. Please note that I cannot offer scholarships nor accept research degree students directly.

Current students of the Faculty of IT studying MIT or BITS Honours may contact me for prospective supervision, but please note that I cannot make any commitment until we have discussed this in depth.

Publications:

  1. Mesbah, M., Sarvi, M., Tan, J. and Karimirad, F. (2011), "High Throughput Computing Application to Transit Priority Modeling", in Proc. 2nd Int. Congress on Computer Applications and Computational Science (CACS 2011), 15-17 Nov 2011, Bali, Indonesia.

  2. Gao, F. and Tan, J. (2011), "Shibboleth and Community Authorization Services: Enabling Role-Based Grid Access", in Proc. 2011 Int. Symp. On Advances of Distributed Computing and Networking (ADCN 2011), in 11th Int. Conf. on Algorithms and Architectures for Parallel Processing (ICA3PP-11), 24-26 Oct 2011, Melbourne, Australia.

  3. Abramson, D. A., Bernabeu, M., Bethwaite, B., Burrage, K., Corrias, A., Enticott, C. M., Garic, S., Gavaghan, D. J., Peachey, T. C., Pitt-Francis, J., Pueyo, E., Rodriguez, B., Sher, A. A., Tan, J. (2010), "High-throughput cardiac science on the Grid", Philosophical Transactions Of The Royal Society A-Mathematical Physical And Engineering Sciences [P], 368(1925), Royal Society, London UK, pp. 3907-3923.

  4. Tan, J., Abramson, D. A., Enticott, C. M. (2010), "Firewall Traversal in the Grid Architecture", Proc. IEEE 12th International Conference on High Performance Computing and Communications (HPCC'10), Melbourne, Australia, 1-3 September, 2010. Available: http://www.computer.org/portal/web/csdl/doi/10.1109/HPCC.2010.108

  5. Sher, A. A., Cooling, M. T., Bethwaite, B., Tan, J., Peachy, T., Enticott, C., Garic, S., Gavaghan, D. J., Noble, D., Abramson, D., Crampin, E. J. (2010), "A Global Sensitivity Tool for Cardiac Cell Modeling: Application to Ionic Current Balance and Hypertrophic Signaling", 32nd Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC 2010), Buenos Aires, Argentina, 31 August to 4 September, 2010.
  6. Tan, J., Abramson, D. A., Enticott, C. M. (2009), "A virtual connectivity layer for grids", Proceedings of the 2009 Fifth IEEE International Conference on e-Science (e-Science '09), 09 December 2009 to 11 December 2009, IEEE Computer Society, Los Alamitos CA USA, pp. 307-312. Available: http://www.computer.org/portal/web/csdl/doi/10.1109/e-Science.2009.50.

  7. Tan, J., Abramson, D. A., Enticott, C. M. (2009), "REMUS: A Rerouting and Multiplexing System for Grid Connectivity Across Firewalls", Journal of Grid Computing, Springer Netherlands, 7(1), pp. 25-50, March 2009. Available: Springerlink.

  8. Ayyub, S., Abramson, D. A., Enticott, C. M., Garic, S., Tan, J. (2009), "Faul-Tolerant Execution of Large Parameter Sweep Applications across Multiple VOs with Storage Constraints", in Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, Special Issue: “The Best of CCGrid'2007: A Snapshot of an Adolescent Area”, John Wiley & Sons, UK, 21(3), pp. 377-392, March 2009. Available via Wiley Interscience

  9. Tan, J., Abramson, D. A., Enticott, C. M. (2009), "Optimizing tunneled Grid connectivity across firewalls", Proceedings of the Seventh Australasian Symposium on Grid Computing and e-Research, 21 January 2009, Australian Computer Society, Sydney NSW Australia, pp. 21-27.
  10. Ayyub, S., Abramson, D. A., Enticott, C. M., Garic, S., Tan, J., 2007, "Executing large parameter sweep applications on a Multi-VO testbed", Proceedings of the 7th International symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid, 14 May 2007 to 17 May 2007, IEEE Computer Society, Los Alamitos CA USA, pp. 73-80.
  11. Kommineni, J. M. R., Abramson, D. A., Tan, J., 2006, "Communication over a secured heterogeneous grid with the GriddLeS runtime environment", Proceedings of the Second IEEE International Conference on e-Science and Grid Computing (e-Science '06), 4 December 2006 to 6 December 2006, IEEE Computer Society, Los Alamitos CA USA, pp. 1-8.
  12. J. Tan, D. Abramson, and C. Enticott. "Bridging organizational network boundaries on the Grid.", 6th IEEE/ACM International Workshop on Grid Computing (Grid 2005), Seattle, Washington, Nov. 13-14 2005. [Abstract] [Paper (PDF)]
  13. J. Tan, A. Zaslavsky, C. A. Ewald and A. Bond. "Domain-Specific Metamodels for Heterogeneous Information Systems", 36th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS36), Distributed Object and Components-Based Software Systems mini-track. Big Island, Hawaii, 6-9 Jan. 2003. (Copyright 2003 IEEE) [Abstract] [Paper (PDF)]
  14. J. Tan, A. Zaslavsky, C. A. Ewald and A. Bond. "A Framework for Ad-Hoc Federated Information Systems", Working Conference on Complex and Dynamic Systems Architecture, Brisbane, Australia 12-14 December, 2001. [View abstract] [Paper (ps.gz)]

  15. J. Tan, A. Zaslavsky, C. A. Ewald and A. Bond. "An object-based metadata facility for ad-hoc federated database systems", Third International Symposium on Distributed Objects and Applications 2001 (DOA 01), Rome, Italy, September 18-20 2001. (Copyright 2001 IEEE) [Abstract] [Paper (PDF)]
  16. J. Tan, A. Zaslavsky, C. A. Ewald and A. Bond. "Facilitating the interoperability of heterogeneous databases with a meta object facility", Philippine Computing Science Congress (PCSC 2000), Manila, Philippines, November 29 to December 2, 2000. [Abstract] [Paper (ps.gz)]

  17. J. Tan, A. Zaslavsky and A. Bond. "Meta object approach to database schema integration", 2nd International Symposium on Distributed Objects and Applications (DOA'00), Antwerp, Belgium, September 21-23, 2000. (Copyright 2000 IEEE) [ Abstract] [ Paper (PDF)]
  18. J. Tan. "Cost-efficient location of resources using multicasting in load distribution", Proc. The Philippine Conference on Computer Science (DLSUCC'99), Manila, Philippines, Dec. 16-18, 1999. [ Abstract] [ Paper (ps.gz)]

  19. J. Tan. "Cost-efficient load distribution using multicasting", Proc. (First) IEEE International Workshop on Cluster Computing (IWCC '99), Melbourne, Dec. 2-3, 1999. [ Abstract]
  20. J. Tan. "Annotated bibliography on schema integration for mobile databases", Computer Issues vol. 29, College of Computer Studies, De La Salle University, May 1998. [ Paper (ps.gz)]
  21. J. Tan. " Schema integration for mobile databases", Proc. of the First Australian Workshop on Mobile Computing, Databases and Applications, A. Zaslavsky and B. Srinivasan (Eds.), Monash University, Melbourne, February, 1996. [Paper (ps.gz)]

Links to pages of (my own) interest:

On Distributed, High Throughput, High Performance Computing


Databases and Other Fields

Other Useful Links

Places I Miss

In Or About The Philippines


Fun Sites To Visit

Et Cetera..
Contact Details: Credits:
Jeff Tan
Caulfield School of Information Technology, Monash University
900 Dandenong Road, Caulfield East, VIC 3145, Australia
Phone: (61 3) 99031172
Fax: (61 3) 99031077
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