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Asia-Pacific Federation. Vicky HUANG Academia Sinica Grid Computing (ASGC) Taiwan Contact: vic@twgrid.org. Introduction. Asia Pacific Federation 2006 ~ 2008 Taiwan & Korea 2008 ~ 2010 EGEE – Australia, Japan, Korea, Taiwan EUAsiaGrid - Australia , Brunei, India, Indonesia,
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Asia-Pacific Federation Vicky HUANG Academia Sinica Grid Computing (ASGC) Taiwan Contact: vic@twgrid.org
Introduction • Asia Pacific Federation • 2006 ~ 2008 • Taiwan & Korea • 2008 ~ 2010 • EGEE – Australia, Japan, Korea, Taiwan • EUAsiaGrid - Australia, Brunei, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippine, Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand, and Vietnam • Asia Pacific Federation is • Extending the gLite Infrastructure, currently led by ASGC • Engaging more user communities to join worldwide e-Science collaboration • Building regional e-Infrastructure and e-Science application • Conducting and supporting a production e-Infrastructure • Working together to provide better user support • Conducting more business and industry cooperation for new business model and opportunity • Asia-Federation Meetings have been held in • EGEE Conference 2006 (September 2006, Switzerland) • ISGC 2007 (March 2007, Taiwan) • EGEE User Forum (May 2007, UK) • GridAsia 2007 (June 2007, Singapore) • EGEE Conference 2007 (October 2007, Hungary) Asia-Pacific Federation_Academia Sinica Grid Computing
ASGC The coordinator of Asia-Pacific Federation (EGEE & EUAsiaGrid) NA2 partner in Asia-Pacific Federation, but an unfunded partner Supports EGEE sites in Asia Pacific since April 2005: 21 production sites in 8 countries; over 1,600 CPU and 500 TB the only WLCG Tier-1 Centre in Asia Pacific WLCG/EGEE Operation Centre in Asia Pacific Region Activities that ASGC are involved with EGEE-II SA1: Grid Operations, Support and Management SA3: Integration, Testing and Certification NA2: Dissemination, Outreach and Communication NA3: Training and Induction NA4: Application Identification and Support Academia Sinica Grid Computing (ASGC) Asia-Pacific Federation_Academia Sinica Grid Computing
Participation in EGEE-II • SA1 (Grid Operations, Support and Management) • SA1 support 21 production sites from 8 countries • 9 sites joined EGEE since last year • SA3 (Integration, Testing and Certification) • ASGC participated in SA3 and joined activities such as WMS testing and glite 3.1 lcgCE testing and integration. • NA2 (Dissemination, Outreach and Communication) • Will explain details in later slides • NA3 (Training and Induction) • NA3 is usually working together with NA2 • 5 training events have been organized by ASGC (see slide no. 9) • NA4 (Application Identification and Support) • Coordinate Grid applications activity between institutes in Taiwan and Asia Pacific countries. • Provide Grid application users support Asia-Pacific Federation_Academia Sinica Grid Computing
EGEE sites in AsiaPacific ROC (APROC) Production Sites 21 Countries 8 SA1 Partners 1 Total CPUs 1686 Storage (TB) 513 Under certification 6 Activities Operate production and preproduction Global and region operations Deployment, operations and user support Induction and administrator training AsiaPacific catch-all CA ASGC Participation in EGEE SA1 Asia-Pacific Federation_Academia Sinica Grid Computing
ASGC Participation in EGEE NA4 Activities Coordinate Grid applications activity between institutes in Taiwan and Asia Pacific countries Grid Application Users Support Applications High Energy Physics Biomedicine : Avian Flu Drug Analysis Earth Science Digital Archive/Library Atmospheric Science Geoscience Seismology Science Development Grid Application Platform Core Framework Application Framework Presentation Framework SRM-SRB Interface Asia-Pacific Federation_Academia Sinica Grid Computing 6
ASGC Participation in EGEE NA2 • Production of promotional material • Events preparation and attendance Asia-Pacific Federation_Academia Sinica Grid Computing
NA2 Tasks & Status (1) • Production of promotional material • Publication • Magazine • Science Journal (Feb 2007) • Interview • iSGTW (23 May 2007) • IThome (May 2007) • HopeNET (Jan 2007) • Brochure • English and Chinese version of brochures to introduce What is EGEE!! • ASGC profile (emphasizing the collaboration between Asia-Pacific and EGEE) • Introduction of Grid technologies, such as gLite and GAP • EGEE Information sheets • Information Sheet of NA1, NA2, NA3, NA4, and NA5 have been translated into Chinese • Video • Avian Flu (in both English and Chinese language) • Others • Using EGEE templates for creating demo and oral presentation materials, brochure & posters to promote EGEE in local and international events • Producing small gifts to promote and increase visibility of EGEE & ASGC Asia-Pacific Federation_Academia Sinica Grid Computing
NA2 Tasks & Status (2) • Events preparation and attendance (1) • Event Organized • Symposium (2 symposium) • 03/26 -03/29 ISGC 2007/ EGEE tutorial, Taipei, Taiwan (194 participants) (http://www2.twgrid.org/event/isgc2007/index.htm) • 11/05 -11/16 ACGRID School, Hanoi, Vietnam (http://acgrid.in2p3.fr/cgi-bin/twiki.source/bin/view/ACGRID/WebHome) • Tutorials & Workshops (6 Tutorials/ Workshops) • 01/22 -01/26 23rd APAN Conference, Manila, Philippine(http://www.apan.net/meetings/manila2007/) • 03/26 -03/29 ISGC 2007/ EGEE Tutorial , Taipei, Taiwan (http://www2.twgrid.org/event/isgc2007/index.htm) • 06/04 -06/08 Grid Asia 2007 & 3rd APGrid PMA Face to Face Meeting, Singapore (http://gridasia.ngp.org.sg/2007/ ) • 09/22 -09/23 7th EUChinaGRID Tutorial for users, Jinan, China (71 participants) (https://agenda.euchinagrid.org/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=28 ) • 10/28 -11/02 Grid Camp 2007, WLCG Tier-2 and EU-IndiaGrid workshop, Taipei, Taiwan (92 participants)(http://indico.twgrid.org/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=118) • 12/10 -12/14 EGEE Training, Malaysia (on-going) • Asia-Pacific Federation Meetings (5 meetings) • 5 Asia Federation Meetings (2006 - 2007, see slide 2) Asia-Pacific Federation_Academia Sinica Grid Computing
NA2 Tasks & Status (2) • Events preparation and attendance (2) • Events attended • ASGC attended 39 international EGEE or Grid related conferences and meetings (see list in Appendix A) • Flyers including ASGC & EGEE introductions have been distributed in almost every event we attended • Visitors to ASGC • Ludek Matyska (CESNET, Czech Republic) (July, 2007) • Marco Paganoni (INFN, Italy) (August, 2007) • Rafael P. Saldana (Ateneo de Manila University, Philippine) (Nov., 2007) Asia-Pacific Federation_Academia Sinica Grid Computing
Outcome, Successes & Conclusion • Outcome & Successes • Promote the importance of EGEE project and increase collaboration opportunities in Asia Pacific region • Japan and Australia has joined the EGEE III • 9 sites have established and joined EGEE sites since 2007 (9 sites have installed gLite and been certified in 2007) • AS/TW, UMel/AU, CKSC/KR, KISTI/KR, IDA/SG (AP partners in EGEE-II and III), joined the Avian Flu Drug Discovery Data Challenge I & II in 2006 and 2007 respectively • EUAsiaGrid project was formed & approved (15 partners: 11 Asia Pacific partners & 4 European partners) • Further strengthening the links between Europe and Asia Pacific region (through project collaboration and cross-support within training events) • Conclusion • Asia Pacific is geographically large and culturally diverse in nature • Cross cultural cooperation will increase the development of global Grid technologies. Asia-Pacific Federation_Academia Sinica Grid Computing
Future Plans • Promotional Material • Video about Avian Flu will be completed by end of this year • Contribution to iSGTW will continue • Translation of EGEE Information Sheets will continue • Other Grid related materials will be produced • Events • To organize • EGEE Training, Malaysia (12/10 -12/14) • ISGC 2008 & Tier-2 Workshop (TW) (8 -11 April, 2008) • 3 ~4 EGEE Tutorials will be planned for 2008 (AP region) • Asia-Pacific Federation Meetings (allocate with events that ASGC will organize or attend) • Grid Camp 2008 (TW) (Q4, 2008) • To attend • 3rd EGEE User Forum (FR) (11-14 February, 2008) • BioinfoGRID Symposium 2007, Milan, Italy (12/10 -12/12) (http://www.bioinfogrid.eu/project-events/bioinfogrid-symposium-2007/bioinfogrid-symposium-2007) Asia-Pacific Federation_Academia Sinica Grid Computing
Appendix A - 1 • Events that ASGC has attended (1) • 01/22 -01/26 23rd APAN Conference, Manila, Philippine (http://www.apan.net/meetings/manila2007/) (Presentation) • 01/22 -01/26 WLCG Collaboration Workshop, Geneva, Switzerland (http://indico.cern.ch/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=3738) • 01/29 -02/02 OGF 19, North Carolina, USA (http://www.ogf.org/OGF19/events_ogf19.php) • 02/21 -03/02 APRICOT 2007, Bali, Indonesia (http://www.2007.apricot.net/) (Presentation) • 02/28 -03/02 Webwise 2007, Washington D.C., USA (http://www.getty.edu/webwise2007/conference/index.html) • 03/03 -03/08 OSG Consortium All-hands Meeting, San Diego, USA (https://indico.fnal.gov/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=468) • 03/20 -03/22 GeoGrid & PRAGMA12, Bangkok, Thailand (http://pragma12.thai-research.net/pragma12/index.php/Main_Page) • 03/26 -03/30 ICANN, Lisbon, Portugal (http://www.icann.org/meetings/lisbon/archives.htm) • 04/16 -04/20 6th EUChinaGRID Tutorial for Users and System Administrators, Beijing, China (https://agenda.euchinagrid.org/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=18) • 04/24 -04/27 HealthGrid 2007, Geneva, Switzerland (http://geneva2007.healthgrid.org/) • 05/07 –05/11 EGEE User Forum/ OGF20, Manchester, UK (http://egee-intranet.web.cern.ch/egee-intranet/User-Forum) Benefit: Promote the EGEE importance, and invited neighborhood countries to join EGEE III. Asia-Pacific Federation_Academia Sinica Grid Computing
Appendix A - 2 • Events that ASGC has attended (2) • 06/04 -06/08 Grid Asia 2007 & 3rd APGrid PMA Face to Face Meeting, Singapore (http://gridasia.ngp.org.sg/2007/ ) (Presentation) • 05/08 NA2 meeting Manchester, Manchester, UK (http://egee-na2.web.cern.ch/egee-NA2/meeting-manchester.html) Benefit: Discuss the development of NA2. Contacting face to face with other NA2 partners is a great way to discuss the development of NA2. • 05/09 3rd Asia Federation Meeting , Manchester, UK (http://indico.twgrid.org/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=110) Benefit: To promote the collaboration in Asia. Flyers including ASGC & EGEE introduction hand to partners. • 06/07 4th Asia Federation, Singapore Benefit: To promote the importance of Asia collaboration and increase the collaboration opportunity. • 06/11 -06/15 Grid Operations Workshop 2007, Stockholm, Sweden (http://indico.cern.ch/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=12807 ) • 06/12 -06/13 LCG 3D –Database Administrator Meeting, Geneva, Switzerland (http://indico.cern.ch/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=15803 ) • 07/25 EGEE NA2 face to face meeting, Geneva, Switzerland (Video conference) Benefit: Communicate and understand other partners activities and get valuable feedback from other partners. Asia-Pacific Federation_Academia Sinica Grid Computing
Appendix A - 3 • Events that ASGC has attended (3) • 08/20 -09/31 CSC 2007 (Cern School of Computing), Dubrovnik, Croatia (http://csc.web.cern.ch/CSC/) Benefit: To learn the latest and professional practical lessons. • 08/27 -08/31 24th APAN Conference, Xi’An, China (http://www.apan.net/meetings/xian2007/) Benefit: Exchange information on Grid Computing, the networking development in Asia-Pacific region and other countries and networking basic infrastructure etc. • 09/02 -09/07 CHEP 2007, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada (http://www.chep2007.com/) Benefit: As the Tier-1 center in Asia, we attend CHEP 2007 to exchange information on technology and discuss the worldwide cooperation model in order to complete international projects. • 09/10 -09/13 UK e-Science 2007 All Hands Meeting, Nottingham, UK (http://www.allhands.org.uk/) Benefit: Get information of a broad range of e-Science projects from all disciplines. • 09/19 -09/21 11th EUGridPMA meeting, Tessaloniki, GR (http://www.eugridpma.org/meetings/2007-09/) (EGEE) • 09/22 -09/23 7th EUChinaGRID Tutorial for Users, Jinan, China (EGEE, Tutorial) (https://agenda.euchinagrid.org/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=28 ) • 09/23 -09/25 PRAGMA 13 Workshop, Illinois, USA (http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/Conferences/PRAGMA13/index.html) • 10/01-10/05 EGEE'07 conference, Budapest, Hungary (EGEE, Presentation, Demo) (http://www.eu-egee.org/egee07/home.html) • 10/07 -10/09 Third International Conference on e-Social Science, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA (http://ess.si.umich.edu/) Asia-Pacific Federation_Academia Sinica Grid Computing
Appendix A - 4 • Events that ASGC has attended (4) • 10/08 -10/11 Fall 2007 Internet2 Member Meeting, San Diego, USA (http://events.internet2.edu/2007/fall-mm/) • 10/15 -10/19 OGF 21, Seattle, USA (http://www.ogf.org/OGF21/events_ogf21.php) • 10/18 -10/20 PNC 2007, University of California, Berkeley, USA (http://www.pnclink.org/) • 11/05 –11/09 HEPiX Fall 2007, Missouri, USA (https://indico.fnal.gov/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=805) • 11/05 -11/16 ACGRID School, Hanoi, Vietnam (http://acgrid.in2p3.fr/cgi-bin/twiki.source/bin/view/ACGRID/WebHome) • 11/10 -11/16 SC 07’, Reno, Nevada, USA (http://sc07.supercomputing.org/) (EGEE, Booth) • 11/26 -11/30 WLCG Service Reliability Workshop, Geneva, Switzerland (https://twiki.cern.ch/twiki/bin/view/LCG/%20ServiceRealibilityWorkshop) • 11/27 -11/28 EGEE-II NA2 face to face meeting, Praque, Czech Republic (http://egee-na2.web.cern.ch/egee-na2/meeting-prague.html) • 12/10 -12/12 BioinfoGRID Symposium 2007, Milan, Italy (http://www.bioinfogrid.eu/project-events/bioinfogrid-symposium-2007/bioinfogrid-symposium-2007) • 11/10 -11/16 SC 07’, Reno, Nevada, USA (http://sc07.supercomputing.org/) (EGEE, Booth) • 11/26 -11/30 WLCG Service Reliability Workshop, Geneva, Switzerland (https://twiki.cern.ch/twiki/bin/view/LCG/%20ServiceRealibilityWorkshop) • 11/27 -11/28 EGEE-II NA2 face to face meeting, Praque, Czech Republic (EGEE) (http://egee-na2.web.cern.ch/egee-na2/meeting-prague.html) Asia-Pacific Federation_Academia Sinica Grid Computing
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