About ApGrid

◆ Grid Computing
With Internet, we are able to communicate with people and access the richest content and information resources around the world. Grid computing, the development of virtual computers over the Internet, formed by aggregating widespread computing power, storage capacities, and many other resources, will be the next evolutionary step in computer technology.

With Grid, people are able to form virtual organizations over the Internet that collaborate on common problems, by enabling them to share applications and data over the Internet, much as they would if they were sharing a single (virtual) computer. Grid also has the abilities to tackle very large problems demanding huge computing resources, by enabling the aggregation of computing power, storage and other resources over the Internet; such as problems in the scientific and engineering worlds, where a single application might require teraflops of power and pet bytes of storage, or problems in the e-business world, where application might be accessed by many millions of people around the world.

Many grid softwares have been designed and implemented, and national grid and global grid test-beds have been developed to investigate the performance, behavior, usability of the softwares and applications on computational grid.

◆ ApGrid
In 2000, Asia-Pacific Grid (ApGrid) was proposed to build Computational Grid around Asia-Pacific region. ApGrid provides a meeting point for all Asia-Pacific HPCN researchers, a communication channel to the Global Grid Forum, and other grid communities and a pool for finding international project partners. Its objectives focus on sharing resources and knowledge, developing grid technologies, etc. in the Asia-Pacific region. Now ApGrid has participants from Australia, Canada, China, India, Hong Kong, Japan, Malaysia, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand, U.S.A. and other APAN members.