Expanding Grid Adoption in Singapore

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Expanding Grid Adoption in Singapore Raymond
Lee Deputy Director, TECG Infocomm Development
Authority of Singapore
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Agenda

• Welcome
• Approach
• Industry Development
• Cluster Development
• Road Ahead

To provide an overall view of some efforts
undertaken to bring Grid technology from the
research to the enterprise space
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Welcome to Singapore
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Welcome Everyone!
Making Teh Tarik
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Singapores Value Proposition

• Singapore is home to 7000 MNCs with more than
  4000 operating as global/regional HQs. Also home
  for over 700 leading financial institutions.
• 2nd most competitive nation
• (Source IMD World Competitiveness Yearbook
  2004).
• 2nd most globalised nation in the world
• (Source 4th annual AT Kearney and Foreign Policy
  magazine globalisation Index, 2004).
• Best business environment in Asia-Pacific
• (Source EIU Country Forecast, 2003).
• Best quality of life in Asia in terms of
  healthcare, recreation, entertainment and
  personal security
• (Source The Political Economic Risk
  Consultancy (PERC) 2003 report).
• 7-hour flight radius Changi International
  Airport is linked to 162 cities in 52 countries,
  with more than 3,428 weekly scheduled flights
  ferrying passengers and cargo to and from all
  parts of the world.
• One of the best connected countries in the world,
  with all the sea, air and telecommunications
  links needed for business.

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IDAs Approach towards Promoting Grid
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Importance of Grid Computing

• IDA recognizes the Importance of Grid Computing
• Grid was identified as one of the key Next
  Generation Internet Applications in IDAs Third
  Infocomm Technology Roadmap, published in Feb
  2002
• Grid is expected to enjoy huge growth over the
  next few years
• IDC expects the aggregate grid computing market
  to exceed US12 billion in revenue by 2007.
• Starting to move beyond the RD supercomputer
  arena into the enterprise space where distributed
  and collaborative applications are used, all
  leveraging on existing telecommunication networks
• Countries around the world are investing heavily
  in this area
• EU pledges 52 million euro in grid research to
  push the technology out of the lab and into the
  hands of business
• NSF provides US53 million for a distributed
  TeraGrid facility linking the nations
  supercomputing sites.

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Developments in the Grid Space
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Industry Development
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Collaborating with the Grid Technology Providers
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Collaborations with MNCs in the Utility Grid Space

• Sun Java Tarik One A 5 year, S100 million,
  IDA-Sun collaboration that focuses on capability
  development, market development and market access
  for Next Generation Internet Applications.
  Launched on 9 March 2003.

Over S180 million!

• Adaptive Enterprise_at_ Singapore A 3 year, S22
  million, IDA-HP collaboration to enable
  Singapore-based enterprises, as infocomm
  technology vendors or users, to capitalise on
  grid and utility computing technologies,
  processes and business models. Launched on 23
  March 2004.

• On Demand_at_ Singapore A 3 year, S40 miillion
  IDA-IBM collaboration that aims to mature
  Singapore's ICT Industry by building Singapore's
  on demand capabilities through initiatives to
  develop manpower, innovation and markets.
  Launched on 12 May 2004.

• Enterprise G_at_Singapore A 3 year, S25 million
  IDA-Oracle collaboration that aims to help
  Singapore companies lead in adoption of
  enterprise grid technology and establish cluster
  projects in key verticals such as manufacturing,
  transportation and healthcare. Launched on 21
  July 2004.

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Managed Computing Competency Centre

• Managed Computing Competency Centre (MC3)
• Collaboration between Sun, NTU, and IDA to
  establish solutions and services for Managed
  Utility Computing.
• Educate manpower in service management skills
  technologies
• Architect managed computing framework through
  joint RD.
• Enable industry showcases incorporating best
  practices in managed computing.

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Grid Innovation Zone _at_ Singapore

• Grid Innovation Zone
• Collaboration between IBM, Intel, NUS and IDA to
  promote the use of gird computing infrastructure
  across the Asia Pacific
• GIZ is a competency centre that will build
  competency in Grid Computing technologies in the
  industry, and establish proof of market for the
  technology.
• Some of the activities planned by the GIZ include
  pilot project implementations, ISV enablement,
  training and seminars as well as showcasing of
  commercially beneficial solutions.

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Global Operational Grid (GOG) Partnership with
HP and CERN
Birmingham
HP Lab Bristol
NIKHEF
Dubna
RAL
Krakow
Saclay
GSI
Nantes
Budapest
Karlsruhe
CERN
Lyon
Bologna
Padova
Yerevan
IRB
Bari
Torino
CERN community 216 research institutes, 6000
researchers, 4 HP sites
1st Asia Pacific node to join the global
operational grid Gateway to worldwide research
community
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Clusters Development
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Increasing Grid Adoption in Specific Industry
Clusters
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Digital Media as one of the First Industry
Leveraging on Grid
Digital Media 3D Animation Rendering, Distributed
Production,Assets Management-Distribution,
Visualization, MMOG Games
Focus on Implementation of Digital Media Grid

• Games Bazaar Incubation Package
• Provide quick-start regional hosting platform to
  help game companies to deploy games titles in
  Asia with minimal upfront investment
• Defrayed cost for first 6 months incubation
  term
• Hardware supplied by HP
• Shared 45Mbps Internet bandwidth
• Secured cabinets with IP addresses in a managed
  hosted environment

IDA Industry Programs Related To Grid
Adaptive Enterprise_at_Singapore(Vertical Cluster
Testbeds, R/D-GOG)
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Collaborative Engineering Programme for
Manufacturing and Construction
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The Road Ahead Technology Enablers
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Technology Enablers to bring Grid into
mass-adoption
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Secure Grid Access

• Secure Grid Access
• Working towards the creation of a versatile
  identification platform for Grid (VIPGrid)
• Objectives
• Enable wider commercialization of enterprise grid
  services by specifying low cost deployable PKI
  standard for grids aligned to most advanced
  latest ISO and ICAO standards in IC chips,
  biometrics and PKI security.
• Validating usage in grid context via POC trials
  and eventual adoption by GGF as global open
  standard.

http//www.asiaiccardforum.org
http//www.icao.org/mrtd
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Grid Interoperability Programme

• Grid Interoperability Programme
• Working towards an Interoperable Grid platform
  that allows different enterprises and communities
  to tap on Grid resources seamlessly.
• To build a common standards-based infrastructure
  for Grid based on Web Services.

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Questions and Answers?
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Thank you!!