Business Grid Activities in Korea

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Business Grid Activities
in Korea

• Seoul National University
• Junseok Hwang

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Table of Contents

• Korean IT Industry in the Convergence era
• Introduction of Business Grid
• The importance of Grid business in Korea
• IT839 Business Grid
• Korean Business Grid Activities
• Vision of Business Grid in Korea

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The Importance of IT Industry in Korea

• Since the mid 1990s, Korea has became a major
  leader in IT, drawing attention from around the
  world as a model country for others to benchmark
  themselves against
• Korea ranked first in the number of broadband
  Internet users
• 5th in the number of Internet users
• 7th in Internet connection fees and
• 9th in mobile phone tariffs.
• The IMD World Competitiveness Yearbook for 2004
• Korea was selected as the country with the
  largest IT share in exports among OECD members as
  its IT exports accounted for 30 or 57.6 billion
  of the total 193.8 billion outbound shipment in
  2003
• However, todays success does not necessarily
  lead to tomorrows prosperities

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Innovation Convergence

• Innovation is carrying out new combinations
• Joseph Alois Schumpeter
• Innovation does not result from the creation of
  new goods or services, but from new combinations
  of the existing inventions
• Therefore, the second phase of IT revolution will
  take the form of combinations or convergence
• The primary engine of the IT revolution in the
  future will be the convergent industry of
  information, communications and broadcasting
  based on the broadband network
• Currently, with the creation of new products and
  markets such as telematics (IT and automobiles),
  home network (IT, construction and consumer
  electronics), and e-finance (IT and finance), new
  opportunities are being unfolded before us
• Korean Government is driving the transformation
  of IT industry from a single service (or
  product-oriented one) into a converged one (or
  integrated service or product structure).

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Computing Communication Convergence

• The present immense notice for convergence really
  began with the popularization of internet because
  World Wide Web enabled the creation of services
  integrating computing, communications and data
• More recently, Grid computing began to gather the
  interest of researchers as the enabler of full
  convergence for all kinds of resources including
  computing and networking devices

Source CERN
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What Is Grid Computing?

• The definition of Grid is scattered until now,
  but it will converge to the achievement of the
  orchestrated scalable entity for heterogeneous
  networked resources
• The present recognition for the concept of Grid
  includes utility computing, on-demand computing,
  internet computing, network computing, enterprise
  resource integration, global load balancing, and
  so on.
• Grid computing mainly means
• to reduce total cost of ownership(TCO)
• to aggregate and improve efficiency of computing,
  data, and storage resource
• to enable the creation of virtual organizations
  for applications and data sharing

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Value Creation of Grid System
Grid System
Resources
Grid Middleware
Customer specific services
General Grid Application
Computation
Customer Value
Communication
Storage
End-user devices
Sensors



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The importance of Grid in Korea

• The importance of Grid in Korea is larger than
  other countries possessing strong
  telecommunication industry
• In case of Korea, computing industry is
  relatively weaker than telecommunication industry
• Grid can be the stepping stone for strengthening
  Korean computing industry based on current IT
  capability of Korea through computing and
  communication convergence services

Convergence
Communication Industry
Computing Industry
GRID
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Telcos Grid

• The expansion of Grid-enabled applications will
  take the key role in pulling the adoption of
  options for advanced services, including QoS and
  security, to the broadband subscribers
• The enlargement of Grid adoption will increase
  the demand for fast Ethernet connectivity and
  flexible QoS management of telecommunication
• The virtualization of different owners resources
  will require advanced security guarantee of
  network services
• The popularization of Grid services will
  accelerate the competition of computing industry
  and telecommunication industry
• The relative importance of value-adding
  applications and system integration increases in
  comparison with the physical infrastructure
  itself such as CPU, storage, network
• The convergence of computing and communication
  can be seen as both threat and opportunity to
  telcos
• Proper management of convergence can generate the
  new source of profit by Grid services to Telcos

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Business Grid

• Definition
• Business activities through commercialized IT
  services based on Grid technologies
• Scattered areas of Business Grid
• Industries that are currently using Grid
  Technology are Life Science, Engineering,
  Commerce, Financial, Electronic Design
  Automation, Digital content creation, Testing,
  Server/Storage, Batch processing, Decision
  support/data mining and so on

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Future of IT Infrastructure
Source cadence
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IT839 Grid (1)

• IT839
• 8 stands for 8 essential new services, 3
  represents 3 major infrastructures, and 9 stands
  for 9 new growth engines
• The IT839 strategy aims to realize a ubiquitous
  world by forming the mutually developing
  structure among the introduction of new services,
  construction of infrastructures, and the new
  growth engine sectors

Source MIC
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IT839 Grid (2)

• For all the services of IT839 strategy, computing
  technologies integrating systems take the core
  parts of service value, but Korean computing
  industry is not developed enough compared to
  electronics and telecommunication industries
• The recently announced possible change of IT839,
  including software infrastructure, means that MIC
  decided to compensate current weakness of Korean
  IT industry by promoting the software capability
  which can support electronics and
  telecommunication business
• Grid business has the potential as the outpost of
  Korean IT industry toward global computing
  business
• Korean major telcos such as SKT and KT, are
  changing to service business companies on the
  basis of their core competency as the network
  operators
• Their services are evolving into fully converged
  form, and requiring the intelligent and real-time
  coordination of massive networked IT resources.
• The importance of Grid technology increases as
  Korean telcos evolution toward service business
  firms proceeds

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Korean Grid Activities

• Establishment of basic national Grid project plan
  for next generation internet (2001.5)
• Beginning of Grid Forum Korea (2001.10)
• Currently, 25 working groups and 256
  participating organizations are active
• Inclusion of Grid in e-Korea Vision 2006 (MIC,
  2002.12)
• Approval of APEC for the nation of whole
  responsibility in APGrid project
• APECTel 24 (2002.10)
• Promotion of eScience project and large-size
  construction technology infrastructure project
  connecting with national Grid project
• Cooperative execution of national Grid project
  with 8 countries, including U.S, Japan and U.K 

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GECON

• International Workshop on Grid Economics
  Business Models
• Co-hosted and co-organized by KISTI and SNU
• 2004, 2005 in Seoul
• 2006 in Singapore
• World-wide researchers in academic and industrial
  areas joined in past two events to share the
  ideas about Grid business
• Business Session
• IBM, Sun, Oracle, BT, NTT, KISTI, AIST, Telecom
  Italia Lab
• Academic Session
• Seoul National University, The University of
  Melbourne, University of Pittsburgh, UC Berkeley,
  Syracuse University, International University of
  Germany, University of Vienna

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Business Grid Symposium

• Korean Grid service companies will get together
  to search the proper way of promoting Grid
  business tomorrow
• September 7th
• COEX ASEM Hall 203
• KISTI and our research group want to enlarge the
  cooperating organizations globally
• Our goal is to increase the possibility of
  success in Korean Grid business
• We need to overcome numerous hurdles, such as
  attaining the global competitiveness in Grid
  technology, developing the business model which
  fits the Korean circumstances and so on
• However, we expect that our activities will
  extend the successful broadband penetration of
  Korea to the popular Grid service provision
  adoption, and drive the evolution of the Korean
  IT industry

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Vision of Business Grid
U-Korea Global Competitiveness in Advanced
Ubiquitous Services
Cooperative IT environments for knowledge sharing
National competitiveness for advanced IT services
Grid based BcN Business Grid Services
Maximization of cost-efficiency in existing IT
infrastructure
Vitalization of new IT services and business
models
BcN (Broadband Convergence Network) aims to
achieve 50100Mbps broadband networks supporting
IPv6 with guaranteed quality and security. It
pursues the interoperable fixed-mobile
convergence network integrating voice, data and
broadcasting services.