ApGrid: The Asia Pacific Partnership for Grid Technology

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ApGrid The Asia Pacific Partnership for Grid
Technology
Satoshi Sekiguchi Director, Grid Technology
Research Center, AIST, JAPAN s.sekiguchi_at_aist.go.
jp
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Global Grid Activities
1999
2000
1998
2001
2002
GF BOF (Orlando)
GF1 (San Jose, NASA Ames)
1st PRAGMA (SDSC)
GF2 (Chicago, Northwestern)
eGrid and GF BOFs (Portland)
GF3 (San Diego, SDSC)
eGrid1(Posnan, PSNC)
GGF4 (Toronto, NRC) 17-20 February 2002
GF4 (Redmond, Microsoft)
Asia-Pacific GF Planning (Yokohama)
eGrid2 (Munich, Europar)
GGF5 (Edinburgh) 21-24 July 2002 Jointly with
HPDC (24-26 July)
GF5 (Boston, Sun)
Global GF BOF (Dallas)
GGF-1 (Amsterdam, WTCW)
GGF-2 (Washington, DC, DOD-MSRC)
GGF3 (Rome,INFN)7-10 October 2001
ApGW2001 (Tokyo)
Tokyo 161 participants, KGF 300
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ApGrid Objectives

• ApGrid Charter (underway)
• ApGrid is a coordination body to produce an
  international virtual organization for supporting
  individual grid research and development projects
  by bringing existent and future grid activities
  together from Academia, Government, Industry and
  Forum.
• ApGrid makes every effort to provide and to
  operate an internationally accessible grid
  infrastructure (testbed) to share grid resources
  given by the members. Contributing resources is
  not considered as a part of members obligations,
  but each member should regard equal partnership
  as important.
• ApGrid Engineering Status
• ApGrid CA almost ready,
• Resource catalogue available,

• To develop a partnership among Asia Pacific
  Communities to
• Share Resources, Knowledge, and Technologies
• Collaborate and Build on each others work
• Encourage Application Community and Assist them
  in using our technologies along with others
• Build, nurture, and promote Ap Grid technologies
  and applications
• Provide a venue for sharing and exchanging ideas
  and help help initiate new projects that benefit
  us.
• Maintain Communication Channels with GGF, APAN,
  PRAGMA and other international existent
  activities.

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ApGrid Locations/Potential Partners

• Japan
• AIST
• Grid Technology Research Center
• Tsukuba Advanced Computing Center
• Universities
• Titech, Kyushu, Kyoto, Waseda, Osaka,
• Computing Center, labs
• KEK (Gfarm)
• NEC, Fujitsu, SunMicro, IBM, Compaq J
• Australia
• ANU/APAC, Monash U
• United States
• SDSC, ANL, Indianna U
• PNNL, (other labs and centers?)
• PRAGMA, iVDGL, TeraGrid
• Canada

• Korea
• KISTIKorea Institute of Science and Technology
  Information
• Grid Forum Korea
• http//www.GridForumKorea.org/
• TEIN a link to Europe and Japan
• Thailand
• NECTEC National Electronics and Computer
  Technology Center
• Kasetsart University , Thai Grid
• Taiwan
• NCHC National Center for High-Performance
  Computing
• Academic Sinica
• Singapore (Singaren/iHPC/Sun)
• Malaysia
• USM
• Potential Asian Partners
• ROC/Hong Kong
• Other A-P countries
• Indonesia, Vietnam, India, NZ, etc

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ApGrid Applications

• Bio Informatics / Medical Informatics Initiatives
• Singapore, Japan, US
• Agriculture Application and Simulation
• Thai, Japan, Taiwan, Australia
• High Energy Application
• US, Korea, Japan, Taiwan, China
• Environmental Study
• Japan, Thai, Singapore
• Astronomy physics
• US, Japan, Australia, etc
• Computing portals
• ApGrid partners
• Remote Collaboration
• Access Grid, Thai Access Grid (TAG)

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ApGrid Technologies and Relevance to other
existent Structures
Social Framework
Education/training/workshop
Applications and Portals
ActiveSheet, BioGrid, Drug Design, HEPGrid,
ThaiGrid Portal, CFD, Chemical Eng.,
Environmental and Ecology Preservation,
High Level Grid Middleware
Programming Tools Ninf-G, Omuni-RPC, Nimrod DPL,
MetaCompiler Simulators Bricks and GridSim, Data
farm Resource Brokers Nimrod-G
Low Level Grid Middleware
Security, Process, Storage, QoS, etc Globus,
Jxta, CPM, GrACE, OGSA
Clusters, MPPs,VP, SMPs At SDSC/TACC/Titech KISTI/
NCHC/etc
Grid Fabric
AP partners have Computers PC, WS, Clusters,
Supercomputers SCE manager WAN Internet, APAN,
GrangeNet, APII, Tsukuba WAN Instruments KEK
Accelerators,
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EVENT CALENDAR Asia Pacific Grid Activities

• 2002-------------------------
• (J) Jan.22-23 Tsukuba, Japan, HPCS2002
• (A) Jan.23-26 Phuket, Thailand, APAN
• (G) Feb.17-20 Toronto, Canada, GGF-4
• (J) Mar.07-08 Toya, Japan, HOKKE-2002
• (A) Mar.11-12 San Diego, US, PRAGMA/NPACI
• (J) Mar.22 Tsukuba, Japan, Tsukuba WAN
• (G) Apr.15-19 Ft. Lauderdale, US, IPDPS
• (A) May 14-16 Taipei, Taiwan, ApGrid workshop
  2002
• (G) May 21-24 Berlin, Germany, CCGrid 2002
• (J) May 27 Yokohama, Japan, HPC/IPSJ
• (J) May 29-31 Tsukuba, Japan, JSPP2002
• (E) Jun.19-22 Heidelberg, Germany, 17th
  Supercomputer
• (A) Jul.10-12 Seoul, Korea, GFK-2 PRAGMA
  ApGrid WS

• (G) Jul.21-24 Edinburgh, Scotland, UK,
  GGF-5/HPDC-11
• (J) Aug.21-23 Yufuin, Japan, SWoPP 2002
• (A) Aug.26-28 Changhai, China, APAN
• (G) Sep.24-26 Amsterdam, Holland, iGrid2002
• (G) Oct.15-17 Chicago, US, GGF-6
• (J) Oct 25 Kansai, Japan, HPC/IPSJ
• (G) Nov.16-22 Baltimore, US, SC2002
• (A) Dec.17-20 Bangalore, India, HPC Asia 2002
• 2003--------------------------
• (A) Jan.22-24 Fukuoka, Japan, APAN
• (G) OPEN OPEN, GGF-7
• (G) May 11-15 Tokyo, Japan, Asia Pacific Grid
  Workshop 2003
• collocated with CCGrid2003,
  PRAGMA, ....
• (G) Summer OPEN, GGF-8
• (G) Fall OPEN, GGF-9
• (G) November ????, SC2003