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South East Asia Grid Forum Interactive Digital Media & Access Grid Projects. 18 July 2006. Introduction. Aim
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South East Asia Grid ForumInteractive Digital Media & Access Grid Projects 18 July 2006
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)
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)
1st SEAGF Meeting – Agenda Sponsored by:
Focus Area:Interactive 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
Focus Area:Interactive 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.
Focus Area:Interactive 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
Focus Area:Interactive Digital Media • Demonstration!
Focus Area:Access 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.