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Melvin Koh is currently the Assistant Manager of Asia Pacific Science & Technology Center, as well as Grid Solution Architect in Sun Microsystems. He received his Degree in Computer Science from National University of Singapore in 2002. During his work in Sun, Melvin has worked on numerous Grid projects in many different regions. He is also actively involved in many Grid research projects and has collaborated with many research institutes and universities world-wide. Melvin is heading the Grid and HPC research projects in APSTC and has a number of publications on grid computing under his name.

Technical Knowledge:

  • Globus Toolkit 2.x, 3.2.1, 4.0.1
  • - Installation
    - SimpleCA setup/config
    - Basic usage
    - Integration with SGE/N1GE
    - WSRF and web services


  • N1 Grid Engine 6.0
  • - Installation
    - Basic & advance usage
    - Basic & advance configuration (Complexes, Loadsensors, Policies)


  • Grid Engine Portal & Java Enterprise System
  • - Installation (Solaris, Linux Enterprise Advance Server 2.1)
    - Basic setup
    - Basic administration


  • Performance Tuning and Analysis
  • - Unix system monitoring tools/commands
    - Application tuning concept
    - Sun Studio Compilers
    - Sun Performance Analyzer


  • Identity Management
  • - SAML 2.0
    - Liberty Alliance (ID-SIS, ID-FF, ID-WSF)
    - Sun Access Manager and Federation Manager


    Current Project Focus:

  • Trust and Identity Management for Grid
  • Grid Market and Price Modeling and Simulation
  • Self-Organizing ICT Resource Management
  • Grid Utility Service

    Past Projects:

  • GrIDE: Grid Integrated Development Environment
  • Grid Workflow Management System
  • Grid SuperScheduler
  • Solving Constrainted Optimization Problems
  • A New and Systematic Approach to Interactive Graph Layout Adjustment
  • Approximate Vehicle Routing Problems (Honours Year Project)
  • Grid Portal Technology

    Melvin Koh's CV: Click Here



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    Publications
    THE CO-SPACE PROJECT - A FRAMEWORK AND SET OF TOOLS FOR THE BUILDING AND VISUALIZATION OF SENSOR, TELEMETRY & WEB-INTEGRATED SIMULATIONS WITHIN WONDERLAND WORLDS, Che Wing Cheung, Douglas Finnigan, Joon Yew Liow, Melvin Koh and Simon See, Extended Paper on The European Simulation and Modelling Conference, October 26 - 28, 2009, Leicester, United Kingdom.

    Survey on the Application of Economic and Market Theory for Grid Computing, Xie Xia, Huang Jin, Wu Song, Jin Hai, Melvin Koh Chee Kian, Song Jie & Simon See, In Intelligence Integration in Distributed Knowledge Management, Ed. Dariusz Król and Ngoc Thanh Nguyen, 2008, Chapter 19.

    Modeling and Verifying Non-DAG Workflows for Computational Grids, Sumit W Sorde, Sanjeev K Aggarwal, Jie Song, Melvin Koh & Simon See, The 1st International Workshop on Web Service Composition and Adaptation (WSCA-2007), Salt Lake City, USA, 9 July 2007.

    A Market-Based Framework for Trading Grid Resources, Melvin Koh, Jie Song, Liang Peng & Simon See, The 3rd International Workshop on Grid Economics and Business Models - GECON 2006, Singapore, 16 May 2006.

    Service Registry Discovery using GridSearch P2P Framework, Melvin Koh, Jie Song, Liang Peng & Simon See, CCGrid06 - 6th International Workshop on Global and Peer-to-Peer Computing: Theory and Experience of Desktop Grids and P2P systems, Singapore, 16-19 May 2006.

    Integration of Parallel MM5 with Distributed Resource Manager and Performance Evaluation, Melvin Koh, Liang Peng & Simon See, In Proceedings of the 8th IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing in Asia-Pacific Region (HPCAsia 2005), IEEE Computer Society Press, Beijing, 30 November-3 December 2005.

    Performance Investigation of Weighted Meta-scheduling Algorithm for Scientific Grid, Jie Song, Chee-Kian Koh, Simon See & Gay Kheng Leng, To be Published in the 4th International Conference on Grid and Cooperative Computing (GCC), Beijing, 29 November-04 December 2005.

    Grid Workflow Management System, J. Song, J. Singh, C. K. Koh, Y. S. Ong & C. W. See, International Journal on Information Technology (IJIT), Singapore, 2005, Vol. 11, No. 4, pp. 50-57.

    Performance Monitoring for Distributed Service Oriented Grid Architecture, Liang Peng, Melvin Koh, Jie Song, & Simon See, In Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Algorithms and Architectures for Parallel Processing (ICA3PP2005), Lecture Notes of Computer Science (LNCS3719), Melbourne, Australia, 2-5 October 2005.

    Grid Workflow Management System, Jie Song, Jasleen Singh, Melvin Koh, Yew Soon Ong & Simon See, 2nd Workshop on Grid Computing and Applications, Singapore, 5 May 2005.

    GriDE Workflow Editor, Melvin Koh, Simon See, Jie Song, Poh Guan Khoo, Lip Kian Ng & Liang Peng, International Conference On Scientific & Engineering Computation 2004 (IC-SEC), Singapore, 30 June-1 July 2004.

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    Technical Reports
    Sun Identity Manager for Grid User Management, Lin Qianxia and Melvin Koh, Technical Report APSTC-TR-2007-02, 18 Oct 2007.

    National Cheng Kung University HPC Cluster: High Performance LINPACK Benchmark Report, Verdi March and Melvin Koh, Technical Report APSTC-TR-2007-01, 10 May 2007.

    Survey on the Application of Economic and Market Theory for Grid Computing, Xie Xia, Huang Jin, Wu Song, Jin Hai, Melvin Koh Chee Kian, Song Jie & Simon See, Technical Report APSTC-TR-2006-005, 30 August 2006.

    Identity and Privacy Management for Grid Service Market, Satish Chathapuram V, Teo Yong Meng, Melvin Koh Chee Kian, Jie Song & Simon See, Technical Report APSTC-TR-2006-004, 01 August 2006.

    N1GE6 Proof-of-Concept in Electronic Design Automation: Experience and Summary Report, Melvin Koh Chee Kian & Kian Chau Ng, Technical Report APSTC-TR-2006-003, 21 July 2006.

    A Proposed Simple Grid Market Framework - Part I, Jie Song, Melvin Koh, Liang Peng & Simon See, Technical Report APSTC-TR-2005-001, 8 August 2005.

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    Technical Briefs
    Installation & Testing of Berkeley UPC on Solaris 10 x64, Melvin Koh, Henry Kasim, APSTC-TB-2008-002.pdf

    Using MPICH-G2 in Solaris Container, Melvin Koh, APSTC-TB-2005-004.pdf

    Using GridWay on Solaris 10 with Globus Toolkit 4.0, Melvin Koh, APSTC-TB-2005-003.pdf

    LSF Migration to Grid Engine using LSF-SGE Gateway, Melvin Koh & Poh Guan Khoo, APSTC-TB-2005-002.pdf

    Performance Analysis of Parallel Version of MM5, Melvin Koh, Liang Peng, APSTC-TB-2004-007.pdf

    Numeric Computation Analysis: Gradual Underflow, Melvin Koh, APSTC-TB-2004-002.pdf

    Sun Grid Engine License Management Using Load Sensor, Melvin Koh, APSTC-TB-2004-001.pdf

    Test and evaluation of JGrid 1.0a, Melvin Koh, APSTC-TB-2003-005.pdf

    Web-based System Monitoring Tools, Melvin Koh, APSTC-TB-2003-002.pdf

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    Personal Publications
    Approximate Vechicle Routing Problems, Melvin Koh, Final Year Thesis, School of Computing, National University of Singapore, 2003.

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