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South East Asia Grid Forum Interactive Digital Media & Access Grid Projects

Forum for discussions on setting up grid infrastructures, deploying applications, and coordinating projects of common interest in South East Asia. Updates and activities of the SEAGF meetings and focus areas on interactive digital media, rendering grid, and access grid & testbed.

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South East Asia Grid Forum Interactive Digital Media & Access Grid Projects

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  1. South East Asia Grid ForumInteractive Digital Media & Access Grid Projects 18 July 2006

  2. 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)

  3. 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)

  4. 1st SEAGF Meeting – Agenda Sponsored by:

  5. 2nd SEAGF Meeting – Agenda

  6. 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

  7. 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.

  8. 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

  9. Focus Area:Interactive Digital Media • Demonstration!

  10. 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.

  11. AGVCR Demo

  12. We welcome other SEA nationsto join us!

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