Toward Peta-scale Computing Environment and Cyber Science nfrastructure - Beyond NAREGI Project

Date: Monday, May 4, 2009
Time: 1:00pm - 2:00pm
Location: LBNL Bldg. 50F, Room 1647

Speaker:
Kenichi Miura
Center for Grid Research and Development
National Institute of Informatics
Tokyo, Japan

Abstract:

The National Research Grid Initiative (NAREGI) Project was a
research and development on the grid middleware from FY2003 to
FY2007 under the auspices of the Ministry of Education, Culture,
Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT). Now we are in the phase of
deploying the NAREGI Version 1 grid middleware to the nine
university-based national supercomputer centers and some domain
specific research institutes such as the Institute for Molecular
Science (IMS), National High Energy Accelerator Research
Organization (KEK) and the National Astronomical Observatory (NAOJ).
The National Institute of Informatics (NII) has already initiated
the realization of the computational research and educational
environment called "Cyber Science Infrastructure", based on the
national academic backbone network (SINET3), and NAREGI grid
middleware is a key component in it.

The Next Generation Supercomputer Project in Japan started in April
2006 as a 1 B$ national project, which is aimed at developing a 10
petaflops class supercomputing system by the end of FY 2011. The
Cyber Science Infrastructure is expected to position this system at
the top-tier of the hierarchical computing resources, so as to
provide the infrastructure for remote accesses by the research
communities. Nano-science/nano-technology and life science have been
identified as the high priority application areas in this project.

As a follow-on project to NAREGI, the "RENKEI (Resources Linkages
for e-Science) Project" also started in September 2008. In this
project, a new light-weight grid middleware and software tools will
be developed in order to provide the connection between the NAREGI
Grid environment and wider research communities. In particular,
technology for the flexible and seamless accesses between the
national computing center level and the departmental/laboratory
level resources, such as computers, storage and databases is one of
the key objectives. Also, this newly developed grid environment will
be made interoperable with the major international grids along the
line of OGF standardization activities.

In my talk, I will describe the current status and relations among
these projects.

Host of Seminar:

    Horst Simon