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AIST Grid activity: Brief updates: 

AIST Grid activity: Brief updates Satoshi Sekiguchi Director, Grid Technology Research Center, AIST, JAPAN s.sekiguchi@aist.go.jp

AIST Grid Technology Research Center (GTRC): 

AIST Grid Technology Research Center (GTRC) METI(MITI) / AIST Lab, Established Jan. 15, 2002 Director: Satoshi Sekiguchi 22 researchers & Posdocs becomes 50 later in this year $130mil + $10mil awarded for bldg., equipment, R&D and operations Will become focal point of Grid research in Japan Not just R&D, but serve as central CA, consortiums, ApGrid principal cite, etc. Collaboration w/Institutions and other Grid projects

Grid Architectures and AIST contributions: 

Grid Architectures and AIST contributions Grid Fabric AP partners have Computers: PC, WS, Clusters, Supercomputers; SCE manager; WAN: Internet, APAN, GrangeNet, APII, Tsukuba WAN; Instruments: KEK Accelerators, … Low Level Grid Middleware Security, Process, Storage, QoS, etc: Globus, Jxta, CPM, GrACE, OGSA High Level Grid Middleware Programming Tools: Ninf-G, Omuni-RPC, Nimrod DPL, MetaCompiler Simulators: Bricks and GridSim, Data farm Resource Brokers: Nimrod-G Applications and Portals ActiveSheet, BioGrid, Drug Design, HEPGrid, ThaiGrid Portal, CFD, Chemical Eng., Environmental and Ecology Preservation,… Social Framework Clusters, MPPs,VP, SMPs Education/training/workshop Grid RPC/Ninf-G Grid Data Farm QC Portal Drug Design Bio Infoma Agriculture HEP DG 180M JPY 1,250M JPY 110M JPY 1,500M JPY 1 USD = 129 JPY 100M JPY

Tsukuba Advanced Computing Center（先端情報計算中心）: 

Tsukuba Advanced Computing Center （先端情報計算中心） National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology （産業技術総合研究所）

Supercomputer Installation History: 

（CRAY C916) （CRAY X-MP/216) 1981.4 ◆ RIPS(Research Information Processing System/Station) is established in Tsukuba. 　　　　　　FACOM M-200 is installed. Computer network by optical fiber is placed. 1984.4 ◆ FACOM M-380 and IBM 3081K are introduced. 1988.3 ◆ Supercomputer CRAY X-MP/216 (Theoretical peak performance:470MFLOPS) is introduced. Ethernet LAN is spread over the laboratories. 1993.3 ◆ Supercomputer is upgraded to CRAY C916. (Theoretical peak performance: 16GFLOPS) 1993.6 ◆ FDDI network over laboratories is introduced. 1999.3 ◆ Ethernet LAN is upgraded to Gigabit Ethernet. 1999.3 ◆ Supercomputer is upgraded to HITACHI SR8000. (Theoretical peak performance: 512GFLOPS) IBM RS/6000 SP　(Theoretical peak performance:252.8GFLOPS) is introduced. 1999.4 ◆ RIPS is reformed to TACC(Tsukuba Advanced Computing Center) 2001.4 ◆ TACC is reorganized as a part of National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and T echnology Supercomputer Installation History （HITACHI SR8000) （IBM RS/6000 SP)

Possible ApGrid Nodes: 

Possible ApGrid Nodes PC Clusters 64cpu Linux cluster (AIST, Japan) 108cpu QC portal cluster (AIST, Japan) 64cpu Linux cluster (TITECH, Japan) 216cpu Linux cluster (Osaka U., Japan) 8cpu Linux cluster (Tsukuba U., Japan) 8cpu Linux cluster (Doshisha U., Japan) 8cpu Linux cluster (RIKEN, Japan) 32cpu Linux cluster (NCHC, Taiwan) 20cpu Linux cluster (NTU, Singapore) 14cpu Linux cluster (NUS, Singapore) 16cpu Linux cluster (KU, Thailand) 10cpu Linux cluster (KMIT, Thailand) 16cpu Sun UE Cluster (AIST, Japan) 256 Alpha Cluster (AIST, Japan) And more… Supercomputers NEC SX-6i (RIKEN, Japan) Cray SV1 (AIST, Japan) SGI Origin 2000/32 CPU (AIST, Japan) SR8000 (AIST, Japan) SGI Origin 3200 (NUS, Singapore) Cray SV1 (NUS, Singapore) Access Grid nodes TACC Delivery Grid +7 sites Devices MEG at Kansai Center, AIST

Testbed Developments (lessens from ApGrid): 

Testbed Developments (lessens from ApGrid) Security Infrastructure Based on GSI The ApGrid Testbed runs CAs and issues certificates for users and resources. The ApGrid Testbed allows multiple root CAs. Each country/organization/project could run its own CA and these could be root CAs on the ApGrid Testbed. The ApGrid Testbed is also planning to run an ApGrid root CA which is signed by a commercial CA such as Verisign. Information Services Based on GRIS/GIIS GrADS could be a good example

Resource Donation Guideline: 

Resource Donation Guideline Required Software Globus Toolkit should be installed on every donated resource. Following information should be provided via GRIS/GIIS Host specific information (hostname, hardware architecture, etc.) Installed software (name, version, install directory, etc.) Detailed information could be better support for users. Announcements When the resource becomes ready, send an email to the appropriate MLs. Create login accounts Every user should be appropriately authenticated. Every user should provide his/her user certificate signed by a trusted CA. Maintenance Donated resources should be monitored appropriately.

Other issues: 

Other issues Administrative work DNS domain (apgrid.org, pragma.org ?) Mailing list (pragma-discussion@npaci.edu, ) Home Page (www.apgrid.org, pragma.sdsc.edu) Technical issues Cluster utilization on the Grid Most contributed resources are cluster systems. Supposed problems: private IP address handling, MPICH-G2, etc. IPv6/IPsec enhancement Firewall consideration Standardization required -> Cluster BOF by Phil