Grid Forum Korea Updates

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Grid Forum Korea Updates

• July 12, 2002
• Dr. Sangsan Lee
• Director of Supercomputing Center / KISTI
• sslee_at_hpcnet.ne.kr

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Contents

• Introduction Grid Forum Korea
• Current Status of GFK
• GFK Activities
• Grid-related Projects
• External Relationships
• GFK to Come

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Introduction (1/4) Missions

• Formed to promote research and development
  efforts of Grid in Korea
• Help planning and executing the national Grid
  program NGrid(N-Star-Grid)
• Expected to contribute to standardization of Grid
  technologies in the world community

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Introduction (2/4) Past Workshop
Statistics of the GFK Inaugural Workshop (Oct.,
2001)
Participants University 91 Research
Institute 91 Industrial Company 84
Government Organization 7 Organizations
University 43 Research Institute 17
Industrial Company 31 Government Organization
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Introduction (3/4) History
2002
2001
Mar.
Jul.
Jun.
Aug.
Sep.
Oct.
Jul.
Feb.
Mar.
Aug.
May
GGF1
Euro-Globus Workshop
GGF2 (Virginia, USA)
Formation of GFK Committee
APEC ApGrid Foundation, Jeju, Korea
GGF3 (Rome, Italy)
GFK1(Seoul, Korea)
GGF4 (Toronto, Canada)
1st PRAGMA meeting, San Diego, USA
1st APEC ApGrid Meeting, Hanoi, Vietnam
2nd APAN ApGrid Meeting, Taipei, Taiwan
GFK2 2nd PRAGMA meeting (July 10-12)
GGF5 (Edinburgh, UK)
2nd APEC ApGrid Meeting, Moscow Russia
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Introduction (4/4) Organization
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Current Status of GFK (1/2) Participation

• Mailing List (July, 2002)

Gov Lab (40)
University (20)
Gov Lab (10)
University (95)
Industry (223)
Industry (112)
Research Institutes (101)
Research Institutes (475)
Organizations (243)
Individuals (833)
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Current Status of GFK (2/2) WGs

• Statistics of the Recent GFK WGs (July, 2002)

WG Participants University 250 Research
Institute 46 Industrial Company
90 Working Groups Application 10
Middleware 6 Network 2 Etc. 6
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Current Status of GFK (1/3) List of WGs

• Application Area
• HEP Data Grid (Dongchul Son, Kyungpook Univ.)
• Solid Mechanics and Materials Simulation Grid
  (Deok-kee Choi, Dankook Univ.)
• CFD Grid (Jang Hyuk Kwon, KAIST)
• Nano Material Computing (Kee Joo Chang, KAIST)
• Computing Grid of Computational Chemistry and
  Nano Material (Yoon Sup Lee, KAIST)
• Post-Genomics (Kyoung Tae No, Soongsil Univ.)
• Genomics (Hyeon Seok Son, KISTI)
• Non-equilibrium statistical physics Biophysical
  applications (Iksoo Chang, Pusan Univ.)
• Environmental Information Grid (Soeg Yeon Cho,
  Inha Univ.)
• CC-Grid-based Computation and Informatics
  (Hyunsoo Min, Univ. Of Seoul)

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Current Status of GFK (2/3) List of WGs

• Middleware Area
• Grid Resource and Job Management (Chan-Hyun Youn,
  ICU)
• Collaborative Supercomputing Environment
  (Chang-Sung Jeong, Korea Univ.)
• Grid Service (Jin Suk Kim, Univ. Of Seoul)
• Grid QoS (Youngsong Mun, Soongsil Univ.)
• Grid Toolkits (Kyung-Woo Kang, Cheonan Univ.)
• P2P Distributed Computing (Pill-Woo Lee, KISTI)
• Network Area
• Grid Network Management (Seongjin Ahn,
  Sungkyunkwan Univ.)
• Grid High-Performance Networking (Ok-Hwan Byeon,
  KISTI)

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Current Status of GFK (3/3) List of WGs

• Other Area
• CC-Grid (Sang-Moon Lee, SAIT)
• Grid Security (Jae Kwang Lee, Hannam Univ.)
• Grid Contents Identification System (Jung Duck
  Ahn, LIT)
• Seoul Grid Center (Yong Woo Lee, Univ. Of Seoul)
• Equipments Grid (Inho Gim, KBSI)
• E-Mail Computing Grid (Sun Tae Soh, Myongji Univ.)

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GFK Activities (1/2)

• Steering Committee Meetings
• 1st _at_ Cheonan (Mar. 28, 2002)
• 2nd _at_ Daejeon (May 9, 2002)
• Publication of Newsletter (quarterly)
• Maintenance of Homepage
• Operation of Secretariat

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GFK Activities (2/2)

• Supporting Working Groups
• Sponsoring BoF meetings during the GFK Workshop
  (2/yr)
• Hosting joint mini-workshops among WGs (4/yr)
• Sponsoring seminars for each WG (not limited)
• Supporting the Grid Standardization Activity
• Sponsoring business trips of up to four
  researchers to GGF meetings, who are chosen
  through open competitions, to promote Grid
  standardization activities
• Hosting Grid Forum Korea Workshop
• Organizing GFK workshops (2/yr)

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Budget Plan of GFK (2002)
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Grid-related Projects

• Development of National Grid Infrastructure to
  build a Grid infrastructure for daily use
  2002-2006 (KISTI)
• Grid Middleware Research for Korean version of
  Grid middleware 2002-2004 (KISTI)
• Grid Middleware ITRC for Training Grid Experts
  2001. 11.-2005. 7. (ICU)
• Korea_at_Home for internet-based distributed
  computing applications 2002-2006 (KISTI)

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External Relationships (1/2)
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External Relationships (2/2)

• GGF
• 4th _at_Toronto (Feb. 17-20, 2002)
• 5th _at_Edinburgh (July 21-24, 2002)
• APEC TEL
• 25th _at_Hanoi (Mar. 12-17, 2002)
• PRAGMA
• 1st _at_ San Diego (Mar. 11-12, 2002)
• 2nd _at_Seoul (July 9-11, 2002)
• APAN ApGrid
• 1st _at_ Tokyo (Oct. 22-24, 2001)
• 2nd _at_Taipei (May 14-16, 2002)

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GFK to Come

• Make GFK as a legal entity within the year, 2002
• Host the GFK 2002 autumn(or winter) workshop
• Propose plans to promote Grid standardization
  activities in Korea via WGs

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Thank you for your kind attention. If you want
more information, visit GridForumKorea(http//www
.gridforumkorea.org) or send e-mail to
gfk_at_gridforumkorea.org