Access Grid Training Workshop,

As part of 16th APAN Meetings / Advanced Network Conference in Busan
Aug 26, 2003

AG Situation in Japan:

Toward Entertainment Grid
Kazuyuki Shudo,
Yoshio Tanaka,Satoshi Sekiguchi,
GTRC, AIST, Japan

National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology

2Self Introduction ofGTRC, AISTAIST
National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology
A kind of national laboratory supported by METI
(Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry).
Japan’s largest research organization with 3,200
employees and over 60 research units.
located at Tsukuba being 60 km away from Tokyo.
GTRC
Grid Technology Research Center
A research unit in AIST dedicated to Grid
Technologies.
established in Jan 2002.
has about 60 staff and directed by Satoshi Sekiguchi(a member of GFSG, GGF).
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SC Global 2001

3(Nov 2001)

We started working on AG to make a contribution toSC Global early in the year 2001.
SC Global is the first (?) globe-wide distributed
conference making use of AG.
held in conjunction with SC (Supercomputing)conference, which is one of largest conference inHigh Performance Computing and Networking area.

Showcase node

Demonstration of ARToolkit©Grid Technology Research Center, 2003

4SC Global 2001
43 participating sites from 6 continents.
mainly from North America and Europe, but there
are several participants from Asia-Pacific countries,
South America and the Antarctic Continent.

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5SC Global 2001
Participants from Asia-Pacific area
Australia
Sydney VisLab (The U. of Sydney)
actively participated in SCG sessions.

China
Admire group in BUAA (BeijingUniversity) operates an AG node since
2001.
Tsinghua U. hosts a Workshop titled “WS

Tsinghua U. Workshop
as viewed at AISTon Advanced Network and Application Research inChina”.

JapanAIST, TITECH, Kyushu U. and KEK.
Picture courtesy of Sydney VisLab©Grid Technology Research Center, 2003

Contribution from Asia-Pacific region

6We planned and managed a panel
discussion as a kick-off event ofApGrid.

The panel was titled “Can the Asia Pacific
Grid Contribute to the Science andTechnology”.

The subject is focused on theApGrid Panel as viewed at AIST.
characteristics of the AP region.
There are motivated participants from various
countries.
Australia (Sydney VisLab), Japan, Korea(KISTI), Taiwan (NCHC), Thailand(NECTEC) and US (SDSC).
ApGrid (www.apgrid.org) is a partnership in theAsia Pacific region. It is initiated in the year
2000 and now consists of 41 organizations fromas viewed at Sydney VisLab.
15 countries.
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Contribution from Japan
AIST, TITECH, Kyushu U. and KEK took part in SCG01.
Besides the ApGrid panel, we contributed to a number ofsessions.
Data Grid panel

Prof. Yoshiyuki Watase (KEK)

Shrinking the Pond (panel)

Satoshi Sekiguchi (AIST)AG Middleware Requirements
Yoshio Tanaka (AIST)AG Middleware Requirements

Panel:Shrinking the Pond

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Technical Contribution
Researches on user interface (in TITECH).

It is hard to distinguish the speaker due to many windows
which AG can show.
TITECH has developed a framework to control the position andsize of windows in response to audio/video traffic.

Mobile / Portable nodes.
PDA-based node

Independent of Motorola’s and EVL’s activities.

Cameras for portable nodes
Portable and full-featured nodes

Built-in camera ofSONY Picturebook

USB camera

Delivery Grid

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Business Activities
The 1st Generation

9A venture, Grid Research
Inc. has been establishedbased on intellectualproperties related to AG.
They are doing business with Grid andPC cluster technologies including AG inassociation with InSORS (An AGventure in the US).
AIST and Grid Research Inc. havebeen developing Delivery Grid, which isa portable and full-featured AG node.

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Business Activities

10(cont’d)Entertainment companies are working on the applicationof AG technologies to their business in cooperation withus.
We will have a session in the upcoming SC Global 2003 !
The tentative title of the session is “Transpacific SynergisticEntertainment” --- These words bring almost no information.

Because we are preparing for patents and have to keep them secret.

We will solicit you for kind cooperation and participation.
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SC Global 200311--- the 2nd SC Global in Nov 2003

A link among the Phoenix Civic Plaza and AG nodes
worldwide.
Integrated to SC2003 (Supercomputing 2003) as acomponent of Technical Program.
Preliminary Program has already been published.
Please register by September 15 as Satellite Sites.
Satellite Sites are AG locations which participate in
an interactive way.
The success of SC Global as a truly international
event heavily depends on our contribution from AsiaPacific area.

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12Thanks for your efforts on this workshop
and providing this precious opportunity.

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