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2009/TEL39/DSG/GRID/002rev10
Information on Exhibits
Submitted by: Singapore
/ Second Grid ShowcaseSingapore16 April 2009
Info on Exhibits
1.Distributed HD Streaming Applications in Environmental Research & e-Culture (Sensor Grid Project in Chinese Taipei)
APEC Economy: Chinese Taipei
Organisation: National Center for High-Performance Computing
The NCHC represents Chinese Taipei's HPC and academic research communities. The centre dynamically uses its HPC resources to address the daily needs of the people and establish large-scale information services platforms. Its goal is to create HPC services that proudly wear the label "Made in Chinese Taipei." Leveraging the varied research technologies, NCHC distills the Chinese Taipei’s spirit from the local humanities, history, and daily experiences. NCHC has the confidence to embrace the future, become internationally competitive, and add value to Chinese Taipei.
From its inception in 1991, the NCHC's goal has continuously been to become a HPC centre of international calibre. In 2003 it officially transitioned into a non-profit organization under Chinese Taipei's National Applied Research Laboratories (NARL). NCHC plays a leading role in Chinese Taipei's HPC, storage, networking, and platform integration future.
In order to provide more complete and professional HPC-related services to all of Chinese Taipei, NCHC has established three business units located in Hsinchu, Taichung, and Tainan. Its mission is service, research, and education. In order to guarantee the quality of services to its clients, NCHC obtained ISO 9001:2000 Quality Management certification and the ISO 27001:2005 Information Security Management certification.
NCHC will demonstrate its result of APEC TEL Information Grid project. It will involve a GIS based platform and knowledge-based Semantics middleware and the environmental observatories hooked up with it. The observatories for showcase will specifically be for weather monitoring and underwater coral reef monitoring. The Grid approach provides a sophisticated middleware and to view the bandwidth challenge last mile content, such as real time underwater coral reef monitoring. Recent work also includes an extension of the similar technology to e-Culture, which allow viewers to scrutinize Chinese Ancient Paintings from NationalPalaceMuseum with the similar setting.
2.A Framework for the Integration of Distributed and Heterogeneous Sensor Data Sources (Sensor Grid Project)
APEC Economies:Singapore, Japan
Organisations: Intelligent Systems Centre (Nanyang Technological University), HyogoUniversity of Health Sciences
The Intelligent Systems Centre (IntelliSys) is an applied R&D centre at the Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. IntelliSys serves as a bridge between the theory and applications of Intelligent Systems, focusing on the synergistic integration of physical systems with IT and complex decision-making processes.
The Asia-Pacific Environmental Sensor Grid Project is an initiative to develop an infrastructure for collecting and managing real-time environmental data from sensors and monitoring systems in APEC economies. In the long term, such an infrastructure can potentially support environmental disaster detection, mitigation, response and recovery. At present, the prototype Asia-Pacific Environmental Sensor Grid integrates live sensor deployments by the National Weather Sensor Grid project led by IntelliSys and the Live E! Project led by the Hyogo University of Health Sciences. It consists of over 200 weather stations providing real-time weather data. IntelliSys is developing a novel framework for managing, indexing and searching distributed and heterogeneous sensor data sources.
This exhibit will demonstrate the operation of a prototype of the framework for the integration of the live sensor deployments in the Asia-Pacific Environmental Sensor Grid with traditional web-based data sources.
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3.Access Grid for Distance Learning
APEC Economies:Singapore, Malaysia, Australia
Organisations: Infocomm Development Authority, Institute of High Performance Computing, Universiti Putra Malaysia, University of Queensland
The Access GridTM (AG) is an ensemble of resources including multimedia large-format displays, presentation and interactive environments, and interfaces to Grid middleware and to visualization environments. These resources are used to support group-to-group interactions across the Grid. The AG thus differs from desktop-to-desktop tools that focus on individual communication. AG is now used at over 200 institutions worldwide. Each institution has one or more AG nodes that contain high-end audio and visual technology to provide a high-quality user experience. The nodes are also used as a research environment for the development of distributed data and visualization corridors and for the study of issues relating to collaborative work in distributed environments.
This project, led by Singapore, involves participation from APEC economies such as Australia, China, Chinese Taipei, Korea, Malaysia, Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam. The series of eight talks via AG have been a useful means for participants from different economies to learn from each other.
The IHPC demonstration will share on an AG derived platform known as the Remote Collaborative Workspace, which facilitates multi-party remote collaborations by allowing users to form virtual communities and to meet, discuss, and collaborate without being physically present in the same room/location.
The UPM presenter will share on a traditional cultural dance known as Mak Yong, which will be complemented with a live dance demonstration from Malaysia's AG node. Mak Yong is a form of Malay traditional dance theatre that was acknowledged as a World Heritage by UNESCO in October 2005. This form of dance theatre originated from the old Malay Patani of southern Thailand via Kelantan, a north eastern state of West Malaysia. This presentation will also share on their efforts to digitise the dance as a step towards archiving this endangered Malay dance theatre.
This UQ demonstration will share on OptIPortal, a high resolution visualisation cluster that is most commonly used to view very large images or concurrently view a large number of smaller images. Typically constructed using commodity computers and monitors they don't need any special purpose or expensive hardware. This demonstration will give an overview of the OptIPortal technology.
4.Korea@Home (PC Grid Project in Korea)
APEC Economy: Korea
Organisation: Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information
KISTI is a specialized institute providing STI services to the public to promote national competitiveness in science and technology by actively challenging and rapidly changing world paradigm. KISTI aims to be the world leader in science and technology and it devotes its whole strength to be the leader of strong science Korea. To maximize the value of costumers by implementing customer-oriented information services, KISTI will develop and secure local and foreign information resources, strategic information analysis, supercomputing and advanced information infrastructure.
The Korea@Home project attempts to harness a massive computing power using a great number of PCs connected via the Internet. The computing power is used to process massive amount of information, which is a huge challenge for a single process. Korea has a very advanced high-speed Internet infrastructure. It is known that Korea has the best Internet utilization among any other countries in the world. In Korea, the popularization of PC is about 80% while the Internet users are about 77%. This advanced infrastructure is advantageous to build an Internet-based distributed computing environment with low costs and high efficiency. To make use of this advanced infrastructure, the SupercomputingCenter at KISTI, with the support of the Korea Communications Commission, has led the Korea@Home project from 2002. Currently, this project is running and solving large-scale distributed/parallel application problems such as bio, climate, cryptology, and astronomy. Volunteers can participate in Korea@Home from anywhere on Internet to contribute their own PC's idle time.
5.Alatum - Self Service Grid Service Provisioning & Side Effects - Grid-based Digital Rendering/Simulation Solutions
APEC Economies:Singapore, Canada
Organisations:Singapore Telecommunications, Hewlett-Packard Singapore, Side Effects Software
Alatum is a SingTel+HP collaboration to provide commercial grid services to enterprises and public sector agencies. Following the project award by the Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore in June 2008, Alatum delivers software, computing power and storage as a pay-per-use, on-demand, on-line service to customers. Founded on a strong partnership between SingTel and HP, Alatum provides a platform where enterprises and consumers benefit from affordable, secure, on-demand access to computing, software and data storage services. For more details, please visit Side Effects Software is the creator of Houdini, an Oscar Technical Awards winning and production proven 3D software which is renowned globally. To find out more about Side Effects Software and Houdini, please visit Alatum will showcase the power of on-demand utility based computing. A PC is connected to the Grid infrastructure using Broadband Wireless. Upon logging in, the users will be able to access the grid resources which had already been provisioned for their usage. There will also be standby grid resources which the users will be able to activate or deactivate on demand based on their computing needs. Side Effects will showcase the performance of a grid-based commercial rendering/simulation platform compared to the typical Asian studio production facilities setup. The exhibits will demonstrate the complementary extension that a commercial grid-based service will be able to provide to digital media production studios in the Asia-Pacific region.
6.Open Cirrus Cloud Computing Testbed
APEC Economies: Singapore, USA
Organisations: Infocomm Development Authority, Yahoo!, Hewlett-Packard, Intel, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (Germany)
On 30 July 2008, IDA joined hands with Hewlett-Packard, Intel, Yahoo!, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (USA) and Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (Germany) to establish a collaboration initiative in Cloud Computing. As a Centre of Excellence for Asia Pacific, IDA creates opportunities for research and development in Cloud Computing, enhances local capabilities and enables users to gain easy access to this next generation service. Researchers from HP Labs, Intel Research, Yahoo Research and Singapore jointly identify the research and development focus for the testbed, in order to build up core expertise to undertake and develop Cloud Computing innovations.
7.Cloud Innovation Centre
APEC Economies:Canada, Singapore
Organisations: Platform Computing, Infocomm Development Authority
Platform Computing provides software that dynamically connects IT resources to workload demand according to business policies. Platform’s customers use their solutions to improve IT productivity and reduce data centre costs. Platform is a market leader for 16 years and has over 2,000 global customers. The Cloud Innovation Centre (CIC), operated by Platform Computing and with the support of IDA, enables Singapore enterprises, independent software vendors and start-ups to accelerate the adoption of cloud computing technologies in transforming their business for greater competitiveness and productivity. In particular, CIC concentrates on helping enterprises to build internal (also known as private) clouds and address many of the inhibitions associated with using a public cloud such as data privacy and security. CIC provides enterprises with the infrastructure and software expertise for consultation, development and testing of cloud computing applications or proof-of-concept.
8.SaaS Incubation Centre
APEC Economy: Singapore
Organisation: Aksaas
Aksaas Pte Ltd, a pioneering Singapore-based Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) company, aims is to provide leading-edge office automation and knowledge engineering technologies to enhance enterprise agility to meet changing business demands, and for decision-makers to affect business operations in real-time. Aksaas is incubated by Exploit Technologies (Agency for Science, Technology And Research or A*STAR), and leverages off A*STAR's technologies to develop its advanced software solutions. Its technology partners include Microsoft, HP, SingTel & A*STAR. For more information, please visit SaaS is increasingly adopted by the small & medium enterprises and multi-national enterprises around the world. Pioneering this innovative concept in Asia, the Axsaas Incubation Centre will provide a staging area for testing and commercialization for new SaaS providers, helping in technology augmentation, Implementation proof of concepts for industry consortium as well as acting as a demonstration area for end user customers.
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