Asia Pacific Grid Initiative Simon C Lin EGI-In

Asia Pacific Grid Initiative Simon C. Lin EGI-In. SPIRE Workshop Taipei, Taiwan 9 March 2010

Academia Sinica Grid Computing Centre (ASGC) • Description: Academia Sinica is a leading scientific organization in Taiwan. ASGC, the only WLCG Tier-1 in Asia, provides services, coordination and support to HEP scientists worldwide. In addition, serving as the APROC and currently, the Chair of APGrid. PMA, ASGC has deployed, certified and provided operations support to resource centres in Asia Pacific. • Task: NA 2 (External Relations), NA 3 (User Community Coordination) and SA 1 (Operations) • Contact: Simon C. Lin

Ateneo de Manila University (Ad. MU) • Description: The Ateneo Innovation Center is the newest technology center in the School of Science and Engineering of Ateneo de Manila University. The Ateneo de Manila University (ADMU) is one of the oldest and most established universities in the Philippines. • Task: NA 2 (External Relations) and NA 3 (User Community Coordination) • Contact: Rafael P. Saldaña

The Advanced Science and Technology Institute (ASTI) • Description: The Advanced Science and Technology Institute (ASTI) is a research and development institute of the Department of Science and Technology (DOST), PHILIPPINES. • Task: NA 2 (External Relations), NA 3 (User Community Coordination) and SA 1 (Operations) • Contact: Peter Banzon / Rey Babilonia

Chonnam National University (CNU) • Description: Chonnam National University (CNU) is a leading provider of higher education for students throughout Korea. The University currently manages 40 research project teams, a regional R&D cluster project and a research-oriented university project for the Korean Ministry of Science and Technology, 2 Regional Research Centers, the BIT Foundry Center, and the BK 21 Project. • • Task: NA 2 (External Relations) and NA 3 (User Community Coordination) • Contact: Doman Kim

Institut Teknologi Bandung (ITB) • Description: Institut Teknologi Bandung (ITB) or Bandung Institute of Technology or Institute of Technology Bandung, is an institution of higher learning of science, technology, and fine arts. ITB is one of the famous Institute in Indonesia and serve to the education, research and community purpose in Indonesia. • Task: NA 2 (External Relations) and NA 3 (User Community Coordination) • Contact: Basuki Suhardiman

Inter-University Research Institute Corporation High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK) • Description: Inter-University Research Institute Corporation High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK) is an international frontier research institute and has been producing many outstanding results such as the J-PARC (Japan Proton Accelerator Research Complex) project, Electron-positron colliding-beam accelerator (KEKB), etc. Various R&D efforts for future research projects have also started such as International Linear Collider project (ILC) and the next synchrotron radiation project, Energy Recovery Linac (ERL). • Task: SA 1 (Operations) • Contact: Mistuaki Nozaki / Takashi Sasaki

Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information (KISTI) • Description: Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information is a government-funded institute under Korea Research Council of Fundamental Science & Technology, Ministry of Education Science and Technology, providing Science Technology & Informatics to the public to promote national competitiveness in science and technology by actively challenging rapidly changing world paradigm. • Task: SA 1 (Operations) • Contact: Soonwook Hwang

National Electronics and Computer Technology Center (NECTEC) • Description: The National Electronics and Computer Technology Center (NECTEC) is a statutory government organization under the National Science and Technology Development Agency (NSTDA), Ministry of Science and Technology, THAILAND. Its main responsibilities are to undertake, support and promote the development of electronics and computer technologies through research and development activities. • Task: NA 3 (User Community Coordination) • Contact: Sornthep Vannarat

National University of Singapore (NUS) • The National University of Singapore (NUS) is the leading corporatized university in Singapore. Today, the Bioinformatics Centre is leading the field in setting up routine grid biocomputing applications from Globus in the early 2000 s to cloud computing on Amazon EC 2 and Go. Grid commercial services. • Task: NA 2 (External Relations), NA 3 (User Community Coordination) and SA 1 (Operations) • Contact: Tin Wee Tan

The University of Melbourne (UNIMELB) • Description: The University of Melbourne is a publicspirited institution that makes distinctive contributions to Australian society in research, teaching and knowledge transfer. Located in Melbourne Australia, The University of Melbourne is one of Australia's leading Universities. • Task: NA 2 (External Relations), NA 3 (User Community Coordination) and SA 1 (Operations) • Contact: Geoff Taylor

Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM) • Description: Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM) is a public university and one of the four research universities in Malaysia. UPM GRID technology researchers and others who can benefit from GRID computing are actively participating in National GRID Initiative and promoting Malaysian GRID Forum and Academic GRID. • Task: NA 2 (External Relations) and NA 3 (User Community Coordination) • Contact: Suhaimi Napis

Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM) • Description: Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM) is one of the top universities in Malaysia. USM is one of the first universities to embark on grid computing research in Malaysia. In 2002, the first grid testbed was established through an e-Science project involving USM, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM), and University of Malaya (UM) in drug discovery and liquid crystal simulation. The Malaysian Biogrid testbed has been established in collaboration with the Malaysian Biotechnology and Bioinformatics Network, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM), and Sun Microsystems. • Task: NA 2 (External Relations), NA 3 (User Community Coordination) and SA 1 (Operations) • Contact: CHAN Huah Yong

Grid Resources in Asia CPU Cores Disk (TB) Tape (TB) 7, 981 2, 500 KISTI, Korea 608 - 0 Tokyo U. Japan 476 423 0 KEK, Japan 354 208 0 KNU, Korea 336 381 0 TIFR, India 320 0. 3 0 VECC, India 208 0. 1 0 UPM, Malaysia 248 0. 1 0 Melbourne U. AU 74 258 0 Other 15 sites 397 401. 5 0 11, 002 4, 172 2, 500 ASGC, Taiwan Total 42

E-Science Infrastructure in Asia • Site: 20 (Apr’ 08) -> 25 (Apr’ 09) -> 29 (Oct’ 09) • 45% growth in recent 18 months • VO: join 16 VOs • Resources Utilization: • CPU Utilization doubled every 6 -15 months • Faster than EGEE average (double every 12 -18 months) • Site Reliability • 24 sites signed SLA • Trust Infrastructure (APGrid. PMA) • • 14 CA in 9 Countries (Blue) RA extended in another 6 Countries (Green) Mongolia is in under accreditation ~ 877 Users, 1, 729 Host Certificates 2

Asia Pacific Regional Operations Center • Mission • Provide deployment support facilitating Grid expansion • Maximize the availability of Grid services • Supports EGEE sites in Asia Pacific since April 2005 • 28 production sites in 11 countries • Over 11, 000 CPU Cores and >4 PB in Jan. 2010 • Runs ASGCCA Certification Authority since 2003 • chairs APGrid. PMA for the moment, part of IGTF (Int. Grid Trust Federation) • Middleware installation support • Production resource center certification • Operations Support • • Monitoring Diagnosis and troubleshooting Problem tracking Security

TAIWAN R&E Network

E-Science Collab Networking in Asia Pacific Region PK-PAKGRID PK-NCP PH-ASTILIKNAYAN VN-IFIPPS TH-HAII VN-IOITKEYLAB CERNET CSTNET KR-KNU 8 MY-UPMBIRUNI-01 MY-MIMOS JP-Tokyo. LCG 2 SINET 2. 5 G 10 G HK 2. 5 G 622 M TW 2. 5 G JP-KEK 1 WIDE US I 2 / GN 2 10 G SG JP-KEK 2 JP-HIROSHIMA -WLCG 2 IN-TIFR TWAREN/ TANET KREONET KR-KISTIGCRT MY-UMCRYSTAL JP NL HK-HKU CN-BEIJINGLCG 2 THNECTEC APAN-JP IP Transit CN-SDULCG 2 VN-IOITHN INVECC 1 AARNET AU-ATLAS INVECC 2 TW-FTT ASGC TWNCUHEP TWNTCU TW-NIU

Tools • Grid Application Platform • GVSS • Data Manager • Desktop. Grid Integration • Volunteer Computing • Operation • Gstat 2 • Nagios 19