Core Grid Technology Group's roles in the project.
Core Grid Technology Group is responsible for creating newly Grid technologies which should compose of the research infrastructure we aim to realize for biology. To establish truly useful research infrastructure, Core Grid System Group is expected to conduct R&D of Grid middleware based on the needs, wants, and demands of researchers and scientists in the area of biology.
1. Computationics under the BioGrid environment
♦Objectives
kineshin models
  • Realize complete simulation of protein folding.
♦Issues in 2002
  • Simulate protein folding structures on computers under the Grid environment. This may allow protein structures to be analyzed in an environment similar to in vivo.
  • Identify the following year's challenges to gridificaton of computationics applications.
♦Results from the project in 2002
  • Successfully represent natural structures such as Kinesin and RAS by lattice models.
  • Successfully take samples of protein structure at all energy levels assuming a simple interaction model (the Goh Model), describing protein-folding structures.
♦Future perspective and Goals
The results will be applied to the Grid Scheduling Systems.
2. Development of a secure grid file system, GSI-SFS
♦Objective
Realization of a user-friendly secure grid file system
  • Users' needs
    1) Data sharing environment SDI (Single Disk Image)
    2) On-demand Remote Filesystem Access
    3) Data Confidentiality (encryption of network data)
    4) Single Sign-on function (for achieving user-friendliness)
♦Outline of GSI-SFS
GSI-SFS is a user-friendly secure grid file system, in which the GSI (Grid Security Infrastructure) and SFS (Self-Certifying File System) functions are integrated.
  • GSI (a component of grid security authentication infrastructure). Single Sign-on.
  • SFS (a file system developed by Massachusetts Institute of Technology). Encryption of communication channels. On-demand file system mounting.
♦Results from the project in 2002
Release of Prototype GSI-SFS Version 1 development
♦Future perspective and Goals
  1. GSI-SFS will be installed into the BioGrid infrastructure system and the results will be evaluated.
  2. Studies on SGI-SFS will be presented in academic papers and international conferences.
3. Applying the Grid to brain science: MEGrid project
♦Objective
MEG
The MEGrid project, which is a sub-project composing of Biogrid project, aims at improving an infrastructure for future studies on brain science. It integrates knowledge and technologies relevent to brain function analysis by the Grid, and provides a virtual research environment.
♦Results from the project in 2002
  1. Development of a visualization software with plug-in functionality to the Grid
    The visualization software visualizes the data obtained from a number of MEG (magnetoencephalography) points and the result of Wavelet Cross-correlation Analysis. The software will be seamlessly integrated into the Grid-enabled software allowing us to analyze the brain function data with Wavelet Cross-correlation Analysis on the Grid.
  2. Development of MEGrid portal
    Portal software has been developed to isolate the complicated mechanisms of the Grid technologies from users. This facilitates scientists and researchers who are engaged in the brain function analysis on the Grid environment to perform efficient analysis.
♦Future perspective and Goals
  1. Data-sharing environment will be established for analyzing the brain function.
  2. Visualization software and Portal software will be integrated on the Grid environment.
4. Realization of IPv6-based Globus Grid Toolkit: 6Grid project
♦Objective
  • Provide a vast address space with IPv6 for establishing the Grid infrastructure towards the coming global computing age.
  • Create a secure Grid environment through the introduction of IP Security (IPSec).
♦Results from the project in 2002
  1. The 6Grid environment was established using IPv6-based Globus 1.3. Demonstration tests were conducted in the IPv6 network connecting Kansai Office of the Japan Atomic Energy Research Institute and Cybemedia Center. Demonstrations were made at the Super Computing 2002 held in Baltimore (USA).
  2. Version 6 of Globus 2.2.3 is currently at the final stage of development at this time.
♦Future perspective and Goals
  1. he studies will be presented at academic societies and in their journals.
  2. The integration of v6 code to the official version of Globus plans to be explored.
  3. Collaboration with international research partners plans to be explored
  4. The results from the R&D activities will be evaluated in widely distributed computing environment.
5. Improvement of infrastructure system: operation and management of BioGrid Infrastructure System
Core Grid Technology Group promoted user-oriented and demonstration-based researches. This achieved development of technologies that will produce fruitful results in the future.
♦Presentations of the research results
In 2003, Core Grid Technology group will establish the cooperation with the other groups: Computing Grid, Data Grid and Remote Data Collrection System, at their developers' level to develop truly useful infrastructure technologies.

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