1. South East Asia Grid Forum Interactive Digital Media & Access Grid Projects 18 July 2006

2. Introduction Aim To provide a forum for national level discussions on setting up grid infrastructures, deploying applications & facilitating coordination of projects of common interest in South East Asia. Points of Contact Luke Jingyuan (MIMOS, Malaysia) Lee Hing Yan (NGO, Singapore) Putchong Uthayopas (TNGP, Thailand)

3. Update on Activities 1 st SEAGF Meeting hosted by Singapore on 8 Feb 2006 Attended by 20 delegates from Malaysia (2), Singapore (14) & Thailand (4) 1 delegate from Germany & 1 from Taiwan 2 nd SEAGF Meeting held on 19 May 2006, as part of GridAsia 2006 (in Singapore) Attended by Malaysia, Singapore & Thailand Agreed to focus on 6 areas Bioinformatics, Cheminformatics, Interactive Digital Media Access Grid & Testbed, Digital Libraries & Archives, Middleware Ongoing discussions via wiki & Access Grid 3 rd SEAGF Meeting will be held in Sep 2006, in Bangkok (Thailand)

4. 1 st SEAGF Meeting – Agenda Sponsored by:

5. 2 nd SEAGF Meeting – Agenda

6. Focus Area: Interactive Digital Media Focus Area Leader: Jon Lau, National Grid Office, Singapore Other Interested Parties: Putchong Uthayopas, Thai National Grid Center Somsak Sriprayoonskul, Thai National Grid Center Nicholas Low, Open Source Systems Sdn Bhd, Malaysia Ikmal, Open Source Systems Sdn Bhd, Malaysia Interactive Digital Media will focus on: Rendering grid Software provisioning Job submission mechanisms Storage grid

7. Focus Area: Interactive Digital Media Project (A): Rendering Grid Brief Description Involves grid resources from geographically different sites, performing digital media rendering. The rendering software used could be POV-Ray, mental ray, or other open-source software. Objective To perform rendering across resources in Malaysia, Singapore, and Thailand (and any other interested sites) Completion Criteria To be able to seemlessly perform a rendering job across the resources through the web portal.

8. Focus Area: Interactive Digital Media Deployment Specifications Sites: Malaysia : Mybiogrid (68 CPUs) Singapore: Guava (10 CPUs) Thailand: Annata (64 CPUs) Software Stack Globus Toolkit 4 with Pre-WS component SCMS Web POV-Ray Web Submission Portal Provided by Thai National Grid Center

9. Focus Area: Interactive Digital Media Demonstration!

10. Focus Area: Access Grid & Testbed Purpose of Focus Group Support collaboration by providing an environment for group- to-group interactions among SEAGF countries Recording of AG Sessions Need - Provide record & playback of SEAGF AG meetings & seminars Solution - AccessGrid Video (Cassette) Recorder – AGVCR Written by Derek Piper (Indiana University) Released under GNU General Public License (GPL) Info: http://iri.informatics.indiana.edu/~dcpiper/agvcr/index.phphttp://iri.informatics.indiana.edu/~dcpiper/agvcr/index.php Currently in trial use.

11. AGVCR Demo

12. We welcome other SEA nations to join us!