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SC Global Panel AIST/Japan, 14 th November 2001 Japanese Challenges on the Asia Pacific Grid. Kazuhito Ohmaki National Institute of AIST k.ohmaki@aist.go.jp. National Backbones in Japan. National Backbones Tsukuba WAN ~ 10Gbps Regional pop in Tsukuba Super SINET
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SC Global PanelAIST/Japan, 14th November 2001Japanese Challenges on theAsia Pacific Grid Kazuhito Ohmaki National Institute of AIST k.ohmaki@aist.go.jp
National Backbones in Japan National Backbones Tsukuba WAN ~ 10Gbps Regional pop in Tsukuba Super SINET ~ 10Gbps National Backbone Japan Gigabit Network ~ 2.4Gbps National Backbone Others WIDE, IMnet, SINET, etc. APAN Tokyo to :Korea 1Gbps (planned) to US: TransPAC 622Mbps x 2 to :Australia 155Mbps x 2 (planned)
Status, Resources, Experiences • Grid Research • Ninf: a Grid RPC system (AIST, TITECH, Kyoto U.) • Grid Data Farm: Peta-scale Data Analysis system (AIST, TITECH, KEK) • BioGrid: Bioinformatics on the Grid (Osaka U.) • ITBL, SuperSINET • Others… • Grid Infrastructure • Supercomputers, Large-scale Clusters and their federation • AIST/TACC, TITECH/GSIC, FNH, … • Deploy major Grid middleware/tools/accesses • Globus, Ninf, Condor, Access Grid, etc… • Databases • Earth Science, Agriculture, etc.
Challenge 1: Testbed • Administrate and populate the ApGrid Testbed • Hardware • computational resources, networks, storages, etc. • Software • middleware, monitoring services, databases, portals, etc. • Running Policy etc. • Current status • donation-based resource sharing • peer-to-peer collaboration • Accounting • A formal guideline is in preparation
Challenge 2: Applicatione-Agriculture • Promising Apps in Asia-Pacific region • Large-scale Simulation + Weather DB • Realtime simulation of floods • Bioinformatics • Eg: rice genome • Monitoring systems on a tropical rain forest • Eg: Sensor Web • Environmental Study
Challenge 3: ASP-like service on the ApGrid Virtual Supercomputer Center search Q request O result R charge Acct. Info USER O order quety responce Q R Domestic Center