Position Statement

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• Position Statement
• Jysoo Lee
• Supercomputing Center
• KISTI, Korea
• (jysoo_at_hpcnet.ne.kr)
• ApGrid Panel, SC2001_at_Denver

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The Question

• Can the Asia Pacific Grid Contribute to Science
  and Technology in Asia Pacific Region?
• Long term answer to the question is positive, but
  
• Very wide spectrum of countries in the region (63
  countries)
• Bangladesh, Bhutan, Binuatu, Brunei, Cambodia,
  Canada, China, Ecuador, El salvador, Fiji, India,
  Indonesia, Japan, N. Korea, S. Korea, Laos,
  Malaysia, Mexico, Mongolia, Myanma, Nepal,
  Panama, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Samoa,
  Singapore, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Thai, Vietnam,
  U.S.A., Central Asian Countries, South West Asian
  Countries,

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Digital divide in the region
Internet access as percent of population for 21
APEC countries relatively more developed
countries in the region (APEC
Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation)
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Digital divide in the region (cont.)

• The region consists of a few developed countries
  and many underdeveloped countries
• The two groups have different environments and
  interests
• Resource sharing, necessary for any Asia-Pacific
  Grid implementation, requires governmental level
  of cooperation among the countries involved

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A-P Grid applications in the next few years

• Local Grid networks
• Sharing resources within local networks is
  expected to be wide-spread (e.g., campus Grid,
  company Grid, regional Grid)
• Specific scientific/technological collaborations
• Grid is expected to be a central tool in several
  collaborations (e.g., CCGrid among supercomputer
  centers in the region, Data Grid in high energy
  physics experiments)

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Toward wide-spread use of A-P Grid

• A few developed countries in the region should
• Develop/test/implement Grid technology
• Share the results
• Allocate resources to underdeveloped countries
• Bridging the digital divide in the region

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Our proposed contribution

• Establishment of Asia Pacific Grid Implementation
  Project under APEC TEL
• Grid application project survey and support (Bio,
  CFD, Meteo, etc. for Asia Pacific Region)
• Building and operation of Asia Pacific Grid NOC
  (using APII Testbed, APAN, SingAREN, TANet,
  CERNET, etc.)
• Grid related RD and standardization (Grid
  middleware Grid browser, etc.)
• Promotion for sharing of high performance
  computers and large-scaled research instruments
  (Supercomputer, Storage, etc. in the Asia Pacific
  Region)
• (APEC TEL APEC Telecommunications working group)

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Our proposed contribution (cont.)
APEC TEL

Tech. Support For Asia Pacific Grid Related
Policy
Asia Pacific Grid Related Guide Admin.

Asia Pacific Grid Implementation
Related International Standardization org.

Industry Research Institutes
Gov. Research Institutes
GGF, IETF
Univ.
Liaison


Building Expert Network


Operation Tech. Support for Asia Pacific Grid
Asia Pacific Grid NOC

Collaboration
Collaboration

Configuration of Asia Pacific Grid Network
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Related Status of Korea

• NGrid is planned at the ministry level by MIC
  (Ministry of Information and Communication)
• Major Content of NGrid(2002-2006)
• Grid application project survey and support (Bio,
  CFD, Meteo, etc.)
• Building and operation of Grid Network (KOREN,
  APII Testbed, KREONet2, HPCNet, etc.)
• Grid related RD and standardization (Grid
  middleware Grid browser, etc.)
• Promotion for sharing of high performance
  computers and large-scaled research instruments
  (Supercomputer, Storage, etc.)
• Construction of Korea Grid Forum (Include gov.,
  univ., research inst., etc.)

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Thank you for listening! jysoo_at_hpcnet.ne.kr