Grid Working Group

1. Grid Working Group Aug. 29th, 2003 Tokyo Institute of Technology Kento Aida Kento Aida, Tokyo Institute of Technology

2. Grid WG Meeting • Grid WG Meeting • Aug. 27th (Wed) 14:00 – 15:30 • Room E • Participants (10) Kento Aida (TITECH), HC Kim (KAIST), Simon See (Nanyang Teck U.), Jongsuk Ruth Lee (KISTI), Piyawut Srichaikul (NECTEC), Kazuyuki Shudo (AIST), Eui-Nam John Huh (Seoul Women's U.), Satoshi Sekiguchi (AIST), Putchong UTHAYOPAS (KU), Jim Williams (Indiana U.) Kento Aida, Tokyo Institute of Technology

3. Agenda • Review of WG charter • Review of the past WG activities • partnership with PRAGMA • Report on sessions in Busan Meeting • AG workshop • Joint session with NR • Demo planed at SC2003 • Discussion Kento Aida, Tokyo Institute of Technology

4. WG Charter to be a neutral interface between APAN and grid communities in AP (ApGrid, PRAGMA, APEC-TEL) • To provide an interface between APAN and the grid communities, such as ApGrid, PRAGMA, APEC TEL • To collect and summarize requirements of networking technology and infrastructure from grid and other related communities for APAN technology area. • To collect and identify requirements of grid technology from APAN user community. • To introduce the updated grid middleware technology to APAN user community and natural resource areas. Kento Aida, Tokyo Institute of Technology

5. Past Activities • Fukuoka Meeting (2003 Jan.) • 1st NR/Grid-WG Joint session • Collaboration for the PRAGMA workshop • Partnership between APAN and PRAGMA • APAN and PRAGMA will sign MoU for close cooperation. (APAN Monthly Update, Aug 2003 ) • PRAGMA: Pacific Rim Applications and Grid Middleware Assembly • Grid WG worked for drafting the MoU with the APAN committee and PRAGMA. Kento Aida, Tokyo Institute of Technology

6. MoU • proposal by PRAGMA (Mar 2003) • 1st draft • approval by the APAN Grid WG (May 2003) • 2nd draft • approval by the area director and the members of APAN (May 2003) • approval by APAN (Jun 2003) • approved by PRAGMA (Jul 2003) • 3rd draft • signed by APAN and PRAGMA (Aug. 2003) Kento Aida, Tokyo Institute of Technology

7. MoU: Benefits of Partnership • PRAGMA wishes “to advance the use of grid technologies in applications among a community of investigators working with leading institutions around the Pacific Rim”, and has a stated objective to ” collaborate with and participate in major regional and international activities sponsored by such organizations as APAN, ApGrid, APECTel, and APAN”; • APAN wishes “to collect requirements of networking technology from grid and other related activities, and to introduce advanced grid technology to APAN member countries”, and has a stated objective to “collaborate with and participate in major regional and international activities sponsored by such organizations as PRAGMA, ApGrid, and APECTel.” Kento Aida, Tokyo Institute of Technology

8. MoU: PRAGMA will … • Endorse and promote APAN mission and goals by • Identifying PRAGMA as an Affiliate member of APAN (on the PRAGMA Web site) • Encouraging participation in APAN meetings, and working groups • Participating, as appropriate, in APAN leadership and advisory committees as appropriate • Disseminating to PRAGMA members information and news about APAN • Sending representatives to APAN meetings, and providing updates as appropriate • Providing link on PRAGMA website to APAN activities Kento Aida, Tokyo Institute of Technology

9. MoU: PRAGMA will … (cont’d) • Involve APAN in PRAGMA activities by • Listing APAN as an Organizational Affiliate, with all the rights of an Affiliate Member • Providing APAN with PRAGMA Annual Reports • Work jointly with APAN “to facilitate and support the creation of computational grids” in and among the Pacific Rim institutions by • Provide APAN with regional input via PRAGMA members • Hosting joint workshops and meetings in the Pacific Rim • Developing and promoting joint-training programs Kento Aida, Tokyo Institute of Technology

10. MoU: APAN will … • Endorse and promote PRAGMA mission and activities by: • Endorsing the principles, operating procedures and activity of PRAGMA • Encouraging appropriate participation in PRAGMA activities • Sending representatives to PRAGMA meetings, and providing updates as appropriate • Listing PRAGMA as an APAN Affiliate Member on the APAN web site. • Identifying APAN as an Organizational Affiliate member of PRAGMA on the APAN web site. • Disseminating to APAN members information and news about PRAGMA, and promoting knowledge gained from PRAGMA of using the grid among domain experts and scientists globally Kento Aida, Tokyo Institute of Technology

11. MoU: APAN will … (cont’d) • Involve PRAGMA members in APAN activities by: • Encouraging active participation by PRAGMA members • Inviting PRAGMA representatives to participate in APAN. • Work jointly with PRAGMA “to facilitate and support the creation of computational grids” in and among the Pacific Rim institutions by • Coordinating joint meetings between APAN and PRAGMA Kento Aida, Tokyo Institute of Technology

12. Access Grid Workshop Aug 26th (full day) Organized by APAN Busan Meeting AG Training WS Committee • Tutorial on AG and update on AG 2.0 • Mini-AG setup and deployment with hands-on experience • Status report and Panel discussion • Korea, Japan, Thailand, Australia, China, Taiwan, Malaysia Kento Aida, Tokyo Institute of Technology

13. 2nd NR-Grid Joint Session August 27(Wed) 1600-1740 Organized by K. Aida (TITECH) and S. Ninomiya • Ninf-G: Grid RPC System -- K. Aida  (TITECH, Japan) • Driving Status of N* Grid Project in Korea  --  Jongsuk Ruth Lee (KISTI, KOREA) • Collaborative VR grid in Meteorology --M. Joh (KOREA) • Data Centric framework for Meteorology --H. Choo (KOREA) • Present Status of Ag-Grid in Japan -- M. Laurenson and S.Ninomiya (NARC) Kento Aida, Tokyo Institute of Technology

14. Demo planed at SC2003 • SC2003 • Nov. 15th – 21st, Phoenix US. • Demo planed by APAN members • AIST + TITECH • ApGrid Testbed, Ninf-G, Grid Datafarm (BW Challenge), Access Grid (SC Global) • KISTI • MGrid • KU • Access Grid (SC Global) • NCHC • Osaka University • BioGrid, HDTV data transfer Kento Aida, Tokyo Institute of Technology

15. Discussion • Closer relationship between APAN and Grid communities • How does the APAN create closer relationship with Grid communities globally? Kento Aida, Tokyo Institute of Technology

16. What will Grid WG do? • Collaboration with NR • Collaboration with Grid communities • Making a consensus with PRAGMA, ApGrid, etc. • Support for application community in APAN • documents to introduce Grid technology • Collaboration with Networking community in APAN • measurement, monitoring techniques • constructing an operational Grid • Session in APAN meeting • session for the Grid in APAN Honolulu meeting Kento Aida, Tokyo Institute of Technology