How might the ApGrid contribute to Science and Technology in the Asia Pacific region?

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How might the ApGrid contribute to Science and
Technology in the Asia Pacific region?

• Mike Vildibill
• mikev_at_ucsd.edu
• San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC)
• Partnership for Advanced Computational
  Infrastructure (NPACI)
• Distributed Terascale Facility (TeraGrid)

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What is ApGrid?

• Asia Pacific Grid (ApGrid) is a Grid testbed on
  the Asia Pacific region which aims to create Asia
  Pacific partnership for Grid computing.
• The objectives of the ApGrid are to
• Build an international Grid testbed to explore
  issues related to Grid technology and
  application.
• Act as an interface to global grid effort such as
  GGF.
• Share resources, knowledge, and technologies.
• Collaborate and build upon each others work.
• Encourage application communities and assist in
  using our technologies along with others.
• Build, nurture, and promote ApGrid technologies
  and applications.
• Provide a venue for sharing and exchanging
  information/ideas and help initiate new projects.
  

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Grid Testbed

• Hardware
• Make existing platforms accessible to the
  regional community
• Coordinate approaches to deploying
  network-enabled, data-intensive Grid compute
  resources
• Software
• Middleware adoption of current technologies and
  coordinated development and improvement
• Distributed data management environments
  deployment of software layers to allow
  researchers to share data collections
• Portals providing interfaces to allow greater
  number of people to interact with the resources
• Operations
• Grid Operations Centers (GOCs)
• User services and support
• Policies relating to sharing of resources

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Grid Ops is more than technology

• We need to establish working environments that
  allow network engineers, system administrators,
  user services personnel, application developers
  and end users to proactively monitor, manage,
  access and understand resources that span many
  sites.
• This may require use of commercial solutions,
  development of new tools, training of staff,
  interaction with third-party application
  developers, and outreaching to user communities.
• This may require the support of our funding
  agencies and institutions to encourage exchange
  of resources

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Grid Operations Working Group

• Several Grid projects are beginning to address
  the complex issues of Grid Operations and are
  preparing to establish a working group.
• This may be a good opportunity for ApGrid sites
  to participate as we work to understand the
  issues and solutions toward making the Grid a
  valuable shared resource.

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Emerging Grid Operations Centers Working Group
Mike Vildibill mikev_at_ucsd.edu San Diego
Supercomputer Center (SDSC) Partnership for
Advanced Computational Infrastructure
(NPACI) Distributed Terascale Facility (TeraGrid)