ISCB-Asia/SCCG 2012 Technical Track Presentation

Dr. Ng Ping Chung
Cluster Technology Limited

A holistic HPC solution for Bioinformatics research -- ClusterTech Life-science Analysis Suite (CLASS)

Abstract

In many Bioinformatics areas, researchers face computational challenges to process and compute large volumes of data acquired. In our presentation, we will introduce a cost-effective total solution, CLASS, which provides ready-to-use hardware, software, and dedicated support for Bioinformatics research. It helps researchers resolve computational challenges and facilitate them to focus on research and analysis. CLASS also supports the use of High Performance Computing (HPC) Cloud, where researchers can migrate their memory/data-intensive computation to a cloud-based environment. This provides a highly flexible infrastructure when scaling is required. In this presentation, we would use some sample client cases to demonstrate how CLASS works.

Biography

Dr. Ng Ping Chung is the Business Consultant of Cluster Technology Limited. ClusterTech has been established since 2000 and has offices in Hong Kong, Beijing, Shanghai, and Sydney. It currently has more than 100 staffs to provide professional services to universities, research institutes, government and enterprise clients in insurance, banking, and retail sectors via latest technologies such as cloud computing, high performance computing, business intelligence, pattern mining and data modeling. Among the 100 professional staffs, there are 20 Ph.D. and 8 were professors.

Chung was a management consultant for McKinsey and Company in Hong Kong, providing strategic advices to multinational corporations. He received his D.Phil. (Ph.D.) degree in Engineering Science from Oxford University in 2008. He held the Croucher Foundation Scholarship and IET Robinson Research Scholarship to work toward his doctorate degree.

Prior to his Ph.D., Dr. Ng received B.Eng. (highest honor) and M.Phil. degrees in Information Engineering from the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK), in 2003 and 2005, respectively. His Master thesis received the Outstanding Thesis Award of the Faculty of Engineering, CUHK. He also won the Best Paper Awards in two international conferences of IEEE in the field of wireless networks and has two pending U.S. patents.