South East Asia Grid Forum

Interactive Digital Media & Access Grid Projects

18 July 2006

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)

Update on Activities 1st 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

2nd 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

3rd SEAGF Meeting will be held in Sep 2006, in Bangkok (Thailand)

1st SEAGF Meeting – AgendaTime Item Presenter

0845 – 0900 Registration

Opening Session Chair: Choo Thong Tiong (NGO)

0900 – 0910 Welcome & Introduction Prof. Lawrence Wong (NGO)

0910 – 0940 Bioinformatics Computation on the Grid

A/Prof. Tan Tin Wee (National

University of Singapore)

0940 – 1000 Grid in the Enterprise Jason Tan (Hewlett-Packard)

1000 – 1030 Refreshment

Country Reports Chair: Jon Lau (NGO)

1030 - 1100 Report on Malaysia Jingyuan Luke (MIMOS)

1100 – 1130 Report on Thailand Dr. Putchong Uthayopas (TNGP)

1130 – 1200 Report on Singapore Dr. Lee Hing Yan (NGO)

1200 – 1300 Lunch

1300 – 1500 Roundtable Discussion - 1 Chair: Dr. Putchong Uthayopas

(TNGP)

Identification of Projects for Collaboration

1500 – 1530 Refreshment

1530 – 1730 Roundtable Discussion – 2 Chair: Jingyuan Luke (MIMOS)

Collaboration Framework & Funding Consideration

1730 End of Workshop

1745 – 1845 1st SEAGF Committee Meeting

1900 – 2100 Dinner

Sponsored by:

2nd SEAGF Meeting – Agenda

Time 19 May 2006 (Friday)

1330 – 1400 Welcome & Introduction Dr. Lee Hing Yan (National Grid Office, Singapore)

1400 – 1430 Focus Group: Bioinformatics Dr. Lai Weng Kin (MIMOS, Malaysia)

1430 – 1500 Focus Group: ChemInformatics

TBA (Thailand)

1500 – 1530 Focus Group: Interactive Digital Media Jon Lau (National Grid Office, Singapore)

1530 – 1600 Afternoon Coffee/Tea

1600 – 1630 Focus Group: Access Grid

Nigel Teow (National Grid Office, Singapore)

1630 – 1700 Focus Group: Digital Library & Archives Dr. Asanee Kawtrakul (Thailand)

1700 – 1730 Focus Group: Middleware

Dr. Chan Huah Yong (Universiti Sains Malaysia)

1730 – 1800 Concluding Remarks Dr. Putchong Uthayopas (Thai National Grid Project)

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

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.

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

Focus Area:Interactive Digital Media

Demonstration!

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 SessionsNeed - Provide record & playback of SEAGF AG meetings &

seminarsSolution - 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.php Currently in trial use.

AGVCR Demo

We welcome other SEA nationsto join us!