Joint Meeting Grid activities committee and Grid working group

1. Joint MeetingGrid activities committeeandGrid working group Jan. 28th, 2004 Honolulu Kento Aida, Tokyo Institute of Technology

2. Agenda • Review of the position paper • review of the first draft (section 1 and 2) • discussion • Report on sessions in the Honolulu meeting • Election for Grid WG chairs Kento Aida, Tokyo Institute of Technology

3. Grid Activities Committee • To discuss how APAN supports Grid activities in Asia-Pacific • coordination between APAN and Grid communities, e.g. PRAGMA, ApGrid and etc. • coordination among groups in APAN • To publish the position paper • Ad hoc committee Kento Aida, Tokyo Institute of Technology

4. Meetings • 1st meeting in Busan (Aug. 2003) • kick-off • 2nd meeting in Honolulu (Jan. 2004) • the first draft of the position paper • 3rd meeting in Cairns (Jun. 2004) • publishing the final position paper • closing the committee Kento Aida, Tokyo Institute of Technology

5. Focuses of the Position Paper “APAN's Efforts to Support Grid Activities in Asia-Pacific” • To clarify activities/efforts • Grid communities wish APAN to do • groups in APAN wish Grid communities to do • To clarify the role of APAN to support Grid activities in Asia-Pacific • coordination between APAN and Grid communities outside of APAN • coordination among groups (areas, working groups and etc.) in APAN. Kento Aida, Tokyo Institute of Technology

6. TOC 1. Introduction (Kento Aida) 2. Activities/efforts of APAN and Grid communities 2.1 Activities/efforts that Grid communities wish APAN to do 2.1.1 PRAGMA (Peter Arzberger) 2.1.2 ApGrid (Yoshio Tanaka) 2.2 Activities/efforts that APAN wish Grid communities to do 2.2.1 Natural Resource Area (Seishi Ninomiya) 2.2.2 Network Technology Area (Chris Robb, John Hicks, James Williams) 2.2.3 Application Technology Area (Kento Aida) 3. Role of APAN to support Grid activities 3.1 Role of APAN 3.2 Proposed new organization Kento Aida, Tokyo Institute of Technology

7. Today’s Goal for Position Paper • Review of section1 and section 2 • Initial discussion for section 3 Kento Aida, Tokyo Institute of Technology

8. Summary: Grid communities • PRAGMA • collaboration to make the Grid usable on a routine bases for applications • network monitoring info. • collaboration for application development • ApGrid • support for development and utilization of a stable Grid testbed • running Grid Operation Center • publishing documents for a Grid testbed in APAN • providing a testbed Kento Aida, Tokyo Institute of Technology

9. Summary: APAN • Natural Resource Area • collaboration to use the latest standard Grid technology • collaboration with Grid testbed and middleware communities • collaboration between e-science communities and Grid communities • reachable and stable (practical) testbed to for users Kento Aida, Tokyo Institute of Technology

10. Summary: APAN (cont’d) • Network Technology Area • example to support Grid activities, iGOC • Application Technology Area • a stable testbed • info. for application development Kento Aida, Tokyo Institute of Technology

11. Discussion • Role of APAN to support Grid activities • What activities will APAN support? • support for practical Grid environment (testbed) ? • GOC • policy to share resources on the Grid • support for implementation of application on the Grid? • publishing documents? • guidelines for Grid testbed, programming tools, middleware • education • Which group? • new committee? • coordination among APAN and Grid communities • representative to outside of APAN Kento Aida, Tokyo Institute of Technology

12. Discussion (cont’d) • relation between Grid and e-Science • e-Science committee + Grid committee • e-Science/Grid committee • e-Science: application side of Grid technology • discussion with other groups • P2P Kento Aida, Tokyo Institute of Technology

13. Future Plan Jan. – Jun., 2004 editing the draft submitting the draft to the APAN member committee for approval Jun., 2004 (APAN Cairns meeting) 3rd meeting (joint meeting) publishing the final paper Kento Aida, Tokyo Institute of Technology

14. Report on Grid Sessions • Joint Techs Workshop: plenary Osamu Tatebe (AIST), “Trans-Pacific Grid Datafarm” • Application Technology Workshop: Grid • Fang-pang Lin (NCHC), “Grid Applications and Human network in SARS Combat” • Nestor M. C. Tiglao (U. Philippines), “FilipinianaWeb: A Philippine-specific Search Engine Implemented on a Linux Cluster” • Vara Varavithya (KMITNB), “ThaiGrid and E-science activities in Thailand” • Yoshio Tanaka (AIST), “ApGrid: Status and Future Direction” Kento Aida, Tokyo Institute of Technology

15. Report on Grid Sessions (cont’d) • Application Technology Workshop: P2P and Grid • co-chair • Natural Resource Workshop: wireless sensor • co-organizer Kento Aida, Tokyo Institute of Technology

16. Election for Grid WG Chairs • Current chairs Kento Aida (TITECH) Sissades Tongsima (NECTEC) • New chairs Kento Aida (TITECH) Putchong Uthayopas (KU) Kento Aida, Tokyo Institute of Technology

17. Next Meeting APAN Cairns Meeting (Jul. 2004) Grid activities committee Grid working group Kento Aida, Tokyo Institute of Technology