OGF33

I'm attending OGF33 held at Lyon, France.

We, the GridRPC WG held 4 sessions, including GridRPC tutorial and DIET, a GridRPC Implementation, handson.

Lyon is a beautiful city, especially in this season. The food here is great, even the conference lunch is.

SC nextweek!

SC 09 will be held in Portland, Oregon, USA, next week. We will have a booth there. We are working hard to prepare some demonstration. See you there!

Got a Prize!

We've got a prize on the activity of the Ninf Project from Japanese Goverment.

The name of the the prize is kind of long.
"The Commendation for Science and Technology by the Minister of Education,Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, Prizes for Science and Technology, Research Category".

HPC Asia 2009 in Taiwan

I have presended following paper at HPC Asia 2009, held in Kaohsiung, Taiwan, 3/2-3/5.

The Proxy-based Design Pattern for Grid Middleware and
It's Application: Ninf-G5, 
Hidemoto Nakada, Yusuke Tanimura, Yoshio Tanaka, Satoshi Sekiguchi

At the same conference, following two papers, to which I have co-authored, are also presented.

Design of a Domain Authorization-based Hierarchical Distributed 
Resource Monitoring System in Cooperation with Resource Reservation,
Atsuko Takefusa, Hidemoto Nakada, Seiya Yanagita, Fumihiro Okazaki, 
Tomohiro Kudoh, Yoshio Tanaka

Speculative Checkpointing: Exploiting Temporal Affinity of Memory Operations
Satoshi Matsuoka, Ikuhei Yamagata, Hideyuki Jitsumoto, Hidemoto Nakada

What impressed me was that, the proceedings was delivered as a cool credit-card type USB memory. Another suprise was the whole proceedings is stored as a HUGE pdf file :).

Back in Japan

I'm now back in Japan, finishing my task at Lyon. It was really exciting experience to work with French people. The document we have been working on will be shown at OGF25 in Italy.

Visiting Lyon

I'm visiting Lyon for 2.5 months from December. I'm working here on prototype implementation of grpc data handle, which is proposed by my host, DIET team, GRAAL, LIP, INRIA. The proposal have been under discussion on OGF GridRPC working group for standardization for years. I hope I can finish the prototype and the document by the end of my visit and show them at the next OGF, which will be held in Italy, March.