Grids and Clouds Activities in KISTI/ Korea
Soonwook Hwang, Sunil Ahn, Taesang Huh, Sehoon Lee, Geun Chul Park, Sangsu Ryu, Seok-Kyoo Kim, Gianni Mario Ricciardi · 2011
KISTI was an official partner of EGEE, participating in many grid-related activities ranging from grid operation and maintenance to grid development activities.The EGEE project ended in April 2010 and some new Grid-related projects were launched.In a continuing effort to promote European Grid projects in Korea, KISTI has joined both the European Grid Initiative (EGI) and the European Middleware Initiative (EMI) as an official partner.Within EGI, KISTI is supposed to continue to provide a stable and reliable grid operation and production grid service as a member of Asia-Pacific Grid Initiative (APGI).KISTI has been part of the ALICE Computing Grid as a Tier2 since 2006, providing a stable and reliable node in the ALICE Grid.KISTI serves as one of the official EMI product teams, responsible for the maintenance and evolution of the AMGA software.Under the framework of EMI, in order to improve the usability of AMGA for user community, we have developed the AMGA GUI clients as an Eclipse RCP application released as part of the 2.1 version of AMGA in November 2010.We are now closely working with the other EMI product teams towards the release of EMI-1 scheduled for April 2011.KISTI has been keen on the seamless aggregation and use of heterogeneous distributed computing infrastructures (HDCI) for enabling large-scale science that would otherwise be impossible to address.To this end, we have developed some Ganga plug-ins for having access to different distributed infrastructures including Grids, Clouds, and Supercomputers as one of integral parts of our approach to HTC service.