1. Jan. 24th, 2003 Kento Aida (TITECH) Sissades Tongsima (NECTEC)
Grid WG
Jan. 24th, 2003
Kento Aida (TITECH)
Sissades Tongsima (NECTEC)
updating the working group charter
SC2002 Demonstration
collaborative events in Fukuoka

2. Grid WG initial objectives (1998)
setting up a computational grid across the Pacific
linking up APAN member organizations with participants for collaborative high performance computational projects, Globus, Ninf, Netsolve, etc.
facilitating research in metacomputing and enabling other user communities to apply high performance computational tools for their specific disciplines

3. working group charter new working group charter discussion
to update the role of the Grid WG
discussion
starting discussion Aug. 2002
the first draft Sep. 2002
the second draft Dec. 2002
the final version Jan. 2003
participants
APAN Grid WG, APAN NR
ApGrid, PRAGMA, APEC-TEL
Data Grid

4. roles
to be a neutral interface between APAN and grid communities in AP (ApGrid, PRAGMA, APEC-TEL)
To provide an interface between APAN and the grid communities, include community groups such as ApGrid, PRAGMA and APEC TEL.
To collect and summarize requirements of networking technology and infrastructure from grid and other related communities for APAN technology area.
To collect and identify requirements of grid technology from APAN user community.
To introduce the updated grid middleware technology to APAN user community and natural resource areas.

5. SC2002 Demonstration Bandwidth Challenge Grid Datafarm team
demonstration of emerging techniques or applications, which consume enormous amounts of network resources
Grid Datafarm team
AIST, KEK, Titech, Univ. Tokyo, Indiana Univ., SDSC
collaboration
APAN Grid WG
APAN Tokyo NOC
TransPAC
Abilene

6. SC2002 Bandwidth Challenge
OC-12
Indianapolis
GigaPoP
Indiana Univ.
Tsukuba WAN
1 Gbps
OC-12 POS
AIST
Tokyo
NOC
PNWG
SC2002, Baltimore
TransPAC
10 GE
Grid Cluster
Federation Booth
SCinet
10 GE
OC-12 ATM
E1200
StarLight
Titech
GbE
SuperSINET
NII-ESnet HEP PVC
OC-12
ICEPP
KEK
ESnet
NOC
SDSC
GbE
20 Mbps
Japan US
KEK
Titech
AIST
ICEPP
SDSC
Indiana U
SC2002

7. results
2.286 Gbps: traffic between a PC cluster at SC2002 booth and PC clusters distributed in US and Japan.
741 Mbps: traffic over TransPAC by a single application (HEP application).
Details were presented in the PRAGMA workshop.

8. collaborative events in Fukuoka
NR/Grid-WG Joint Session
Jan. 22nd, 2003
3rd PRAGMA Workshop
Jan.23rd – 24th, 2003