User Community Area

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User Community Area

• Grid WG
• Education WG
• Manufacturing WG
• Youth WG

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Grid WG

• Kento Aida TITECH, Sissades Tongsima NECTEC
• Full day pre-conf workshop, 14 presentations, 40
  participants

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Grid wg

• Role of grid wg,
• Interface b/n APAN and apgrid/pragma/apec-tel
• Apgrid is testbed, and very new
• Pragma is application focussed, and very new
• Apec-tel is policy/information focussed
• APGrid is maturing, and may yet take it all on
  until then we need gridwg
• Gridwg is neutral
• Gridwg identifies network technologies required
• Gridwg talks with user community/natural
  resources areas on their grid needs.
• Gridwg works towards standard grid, not
  application specific grids
• Provides the clearest focus for international
  collaboration

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Grid wg

• Benefit for APAN
• Expand user communities, expand bandwidth
  requirements, use existing bandwidth most
  effectively
• does APAN need it, and in User Community Area?
  (yes middleware, not network technology)
• Coordinate with NR and UC groups on Grid
  activities and demoes

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Education

• Pre-conf workshop
• Chair An Jie, Tan Hock Soon
• (comment from elsewhere not well integrated
  into conference)
• 10 speakers overview of activities in the
  region
• Identify Objectives of DE, key initiation points,
  applications, technology enablers (above network
  layer) and standards.
• Identify key contacts in countries
• Take on coordination/promotion
• Web site regularly updated
• Have joint sessions with other areas (NR, Grid,
  Technology) at future meetings.
• Require assistance from technology area on
  connectivity and services for collaborators (how
  does a site access APAN?)

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Manufacturing

• Chair Tan Kim Cheng
• VEMAT project ongoing TP and HK, interest from
  Tsinghua Uni, CN
• Working on remote instrument access
• More Education focussed propose to merge with
  Edu-WG

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NEW Youth WG

• PROPOSAL at this stage
• Charter to be finalised
• Support/promote use of APAN and similar networks
  from Youth perspective
• Interface to other youth organisations in APAN
• Increase use of bandwidth
• P2P and Entertainment?? ?