| Session 1 |
| 14:00 - 15:30 "Grid Middleware and Infrastructure" |
| Chair : |
Kento Aida ( NII ) |
| Title : |
BIRUNI Grid gLite Middleware Deployment : From Zero to Hero, towards a certified EGEE site |
| Authors (*Speaker) : |
*Muhammad Farhan Sjaugi, Mohamed Othman, Mohd. Zul Yusoff, M. Rafizan Ramly, Suhaimi Napis ( University Putra Malaysia ) |
| Abstract : |
Academic staffs, research officers / assistants, and post-graduate students made up of over 80% of the entire research community in Malaysia! ( Not including undergraduates ). Some of them are working on Grid computing and its application in various disciplines, include bioinformatics, cheminformatics and computer science. To support this community, UPM has just commissioned BIRUNI Grid with the hope of encouraging the community to go to the next level of advanced research.
BIRUNI Grid is built based on gLite Middleware 3.1 which is supported by EGEE community. Though not all services are provided in BIRUNI Grid, gLite Middleware has perform very well with BIRUNI Grid architecture. BIRUNI Grid middleware architecture consists of computing element, storage element, worker nodes, bdii site level, monitoring, user interface, and soon will serve resource broker / workload management server ( WMS ) for regional grid sites as an alternative of current one only WMS available in EUAsia Grid vo. We divide BIRUNI Grid into three different clusters; the first cluster consists of 224 CPU cores, 224 GB Rams with gigabit Ethernet interconnectivity for compute-intensive application while the second cluster consists of 80 CPU cores, 80 GB Rams with inifiniband interconnectivity for data-intersive application. The last cluster is purposely for learning and discovery test-bed consists of 56 CPU cores, 56 GB Rams with gigabit interconnectivity.
The point that we want to share here is that we start from zero! Most of BIRUNI Grid team member has very minimum knowledge in grid computing both in hardware architecture and also middleware. Thanks to EUAsiaGrid community, who always helping and supporting us to learn on how to deploy a grid computing facility and also administrating it. Currently BIRUNI Grid has obtained certified EGEE site status. |
| Title : |
Interoperation Across Production Grids |
| Authors (*Speaker) : |
*Kazushige Sage ( NII ) |
| Abstract : |
Interoperation across grids that are using different middleware are one of the hot topics in grid projects. In this presentation, I will classify the interoperation by interface, and introduce some actual examples including our RENKEI project ( a Japanese eScience project ).
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| Title : |
Grid Operation in Japanese Universities |
| Authors (*Speaker) : |
*Kento Aida, Taizo Kobayashi, Hirofumni Amano, Mutsumi Aoyagi |
| Abstract : |
Computer centers in nine Japanese universities and NII started pilot grid operation using the NARGEI middleware in spring 2009. The computer centers play as resource providers offering their high-performance computer systems, and NII plays as an operation center to coordinate the grid operation. This talk presents an overview of the grid infrastructure and operational issues focusing on the account management. |
| Session 2 |
| 16:00 - 17:30 "Identity Management" |
| Chair : |
Hideaki Goto ( Tohoku University / NII ) |
| Title : |
Australian Middleware Activities for Research and Higher Education |
| Authors (*Speaker) : |
*Patricia McMillan ( The University of Queensland ) via video |
| Abstrat : |
This talk will summarise several middleware activities that are being coordinated through CAUDIT, The Council of Australian University, Directors of Information Technology. The Autralian Access Federation is a SAML federation of Australian universities and research organisations. It is currently in operation as a pilot and is expected to be in production by the end of 2009. CAUDIT's Technical Standards Committee is also coordinating several other middleware activities. These include an Indentity and Access Manangement framework, a standard attribute vocabulary for exchanging data between institutions, and a common eduroam policy for Australia and New Zealand. |
| Title : |
UPKI Federation - 2009 Pilot Operation |
| Authors (*Speaker) : |
*Kazutsuna Yamaji, Toshiyuki Kataoka, Takeshi Nishimura, Masaki Shimaoka, Motonori Nakamura, Noboru Sonehara ( NII ), Yasuo Okabe ( Kyoto University ) |
| Abstract : |
UPKI federation is deploying federated identify in Japan by means of the SAML 2.0 standard mainly utilizing Shibboleth middleware. Feasibility study was succeeded with 30 identify providers and 18 service providers in 2008, and then the federation is now moved to pilot operation. This presentation reports our current status and design of our federation. |
| Title : |
Easy-to-deploy eduroam system for hundreds of universities |
| Authors (*Speaker) : |
*Hideaki Goto, Hideaki Sone ( Tohoku University / NII ), Junichi Yamato, Hisaya Wakayama ( Tohoku University, now with NEC ) |
| Abstract : |
Some security issues and difficulties in deployment of guest WLANs and federated AAA systems hamper the growth of eduroam service in countries with hundreds of organizations. In this talk, we address the issues in a large-scale eduroam network and propose some new network architectures that can ease the eduroam deployment. |
|Last Updated 27 Mar 2009