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France, Japan and Korea Particle Physics Laboratory (FJKPPL) workshop on GRID computing held at KEK
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From 20 to 22 December 2010, the France, Japan and Korea Particle Physics Laboratory (FJKPPL) workshop on GRID computing was held at KEK, Tsukuba, Japan. This workshop was attended by more than 20 researchers including four participants from the Computing Center of the National Institute of Nuclear Physics and Particle Physics (CC-IN2P3), France, and five participants from the Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information (KISTI) and the National Cancer Center, Korea.
The purpose of the workshop is to develop GRID computing and promote much closer relationships among institutes.
GRID computing is a metaphor for making computer as easy to access as an electric power grid. It is a computing model which provides higher throughput for large-scale computing across many distributed computers.
Participants reported on the present status and future projects to be undertaken by the laboratory, its research activities, and the status of ongoing collaborations. These include GRID development, operation and R&D projects.
At the working session, participants engaged in an energetic discussion on future projects and collaborations. There are bilateral collaborations between France, Japan and Korea which have been growing thanks to virtual organizations (VO) such as the France-Korea Particle Physics Laboratory (FKPPL) and France-Japan Particle Physics Laboratory (FJPPL) . Those who attended the workshop tried to identify opportunities to extend activities from bilateral VOs to multilateral VOs in the field of computing. Their considerations included collaborations to share and maintain web sites, standardization of monitoring tools, and the development of simple and useful common platforms. They saw that a possibility existed to establish a new French-Asian VO on GRID computing.
FJPPL: To honor Toshiko Yuasa, who was the first Japanese female physicist and a pioneer in Franco-Japanese relations in the field of nuclear and particle physics, FJPPL was renamed the "Toshiko Yuasa Lab" (TYL) in May 2009.