South East Asia Grid Forum Interactive Digital Media

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South East Asia Grid ForumInteractive Digital
Media Access Grid Projects

• 18 July 2006

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Introduction

• Aim
• To provide a forum for national level discussions
  on setting up grid infrastructures, deploying
  applications facilitating coordination of
  projects of common interest in South East Asia.
• Points of Contact
• Luke Jingyuan (MIMOS, Malaysia)
• Lee Hing Yan (NGO, Singapore)
• Putchong Uthayopas (TNGP, Thailand)

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Update on Activities

• 1st SEAGF Meeting hosted by Singapore on 8 Feb
  2006
• Attended by 20 delegates from Malaysia (2),
  Singapore (14) Thailand (4)
• 1 delegate from Germany 1 from Taiwan
• 2nd SEAGF Meeting held on 19 May 2006, as part of
  GridAsia 2006 (in Singapore)
• Attended by Malaysia, Singapore Thailand
• Agreed to focus on 6 areas
• Bioinformatics, Cheminformatics, Interactive
  Digital Media
• Access Grid Testbed, Digital Libraries
  Archives, Middleware
• Ongoing discussions via wiki Access Grid
• 3rd SEAGF Meeting will be held in Sep 2006, in
  Bangkok (Thailand)

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1st SEAGF Meeting Agenda
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2nd SEAGF Meeting Agenda
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Focus AreaInteractive Digital Media

• Focus Area Leader
• Jon Lau, National Grid Office, Singapore
• Other Interested Parties
• Putchong Uthayopas, Thai National Grid Center
• Somsak Sriprayoonskul, Thai National Grid Center
• Nicholas Low, Open Source Systems Sdn Bhd,
  Malaysia
• Ikmal, Open Source Systems Sdn Bhd, Malaysia
• Interactive Digital Media will focus on
• Rendering grid
• Software provisioning
• Job submission mechanisms
• Storage grid

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Focus AreaInteractive Digital Media

• Project (A) Rendering Grid
• Brief Description
• Involves grid resources from geographically
  different sites, performing digital media
  rendering.
• The rendering software used could be POV-Ray,
  mental ray, or other open-source software.
• Objective
• To perform rendering across resources in
  Malaysia, Singapore, and Thailand (and any other
  interested sites)
• Completion Criteria
• To be able to seemlessly perform a rendering job
  across the resources through the web portal.

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Focus AreaInteractive Digital Media

• Deployment Specifications
• Sites
• Malaysia Mybiogrid (68 CPUs)
• Singapore Guava (10 CPUs)
• Thailand Annata (64 CPUs)
• Software Stack
• Globus Toolkit 4 with Pre-WS component
• SCMS Web
• POV-Ray
• Web Submission Portal
• Provided by Thai National Grid Center

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Focus AreaInteractive Digital Media

• Demonstration!

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Focus AreaAccess Grid Testbed

• Purpose of Focus Group
• Support collaboration by providing an environment
  for group-
• to-group interactions among SEAGF countries
• Recording of AG Sessions
• Need - Provide record playback of SEAGF AG
  meetings seminars
• Solution - AccessGrid Video (Cassette) Recorder
  AGVCR
• Written by Derek Piper (Indiana University)
• Released under GNU General Public License (GPL)
• Info http//iri.informatics.indiana.edu/dcpiper/
  agvcr/index.php
• Currently in trial use.

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AGVCR Demo
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We welcome other SEA nationsto join us!