1. LCG-2 Plan in Taiwan Simon C. Lin and Eric Yen Academia Sinica Taipei, Taiwan 13 January 2004

2. Network Infrastructure in Taiwan Grid Applications in Taiwan LCG-1 Status Schedule for LCG2 Outline

4. Taiwan International Network Japan US- West US-East Europe 155Mbps(Jan., 2004) 622Mbps(Feb., 2004) 155Mbps(Feb., 2004) 1.24Gbps(Apr., 2004) 2.4Gbps 622Mbps(Feb., 2004) 1.24Gbps(Mar., 2004) US- West 2.4Gbps Polo Alto, USA Seattle, USA 1.24Gbps 622Mbps Singapore Singaren 155Mbps Feb. 2004, possibly 155Mbps Hong Kong HARNet

5. Topology of Taiwan Domestic Network Backbone: 80 G GigaPoPs: 145 G Dark Fiber: 6 Taichung Hsinchu 20G 10G Tainan Taipei Sinica NCU NCTHU NCNU CCU NCKU NSYSU NTU NDHU NCTU NTHU 10GE 5GE fiber 10GE or fiber

6. High Energy Physics: ATLAS, CMS, CDF Bioinformatics: BioPortal, HealthGrid Digital Archive Grid Biodiversity: GBIF member Tele-Science eLearning Access Grid Parallel Computing Environment Grid Applications in Taiwan

7. LCG-1 Status –LCG-0 Deployed at March 19, 2003, just after RAL and CNAF –ASGCCA Approved: June 12th, 2003 –Keep 2~6 Staffs Stationed at CERN from July 2003 Join GTA, DB, Application, and C&T teams for LCG Development –LCG-1 Testbed Ready: July 30, 2003 Sep. 2: LCG1-1_0_0 Ready Oct.28: LCG1-1_1_0 Ready Nov. 7: LCG1-1_1_1.I Ready Dec.: LCG1-1_1_3 Ready LCG System Deployment

8. Current Status Acting as the East2 RegionGIIS 1 Top MDS, 1 RB, 1 BDII, 1 UI, 1 Proxy, 1 LCFGng, 1 SE, 1 CE and 8 WNs Tier2 Sites will be ready in 1Q2004 (NTU, NCU & ASIP) Keep system availability to 99.8%+ Manpower in ASCC for Grid (FTE) LCGGridTotal 2003437 20046410

9. IBM BladeCenter –Processor (around 1KSI2K/cpu) 2x SMP processors; BIOS type: IBM BIOS Processor (CPU): Intel Xeon 2.80 GHz Front side bus (FSB): 533 MHz Internal L2 cache memory size: 512 KB –System Memory Memory (RAM): 2GB DDR SDRAM (Chipkill) RAM slots total: 4 DIMM; Memory speed: 266 MHz –Storage 2x 40GB IDE Hard Drive in each Blade Connect to External Storage thru SAN Switch (2Gb) –Networking: Gigabit Ethernet- Integrated –System Architecture 14 Blades/Chases; 5 Chases(7U)/Rack(19’) New Platform for LCG-2

10. Will try to meet the 12, 19, 26 Jan Schedule –BUT, the Chinese New Year is on the way! 52 Blades will be ready by 31 Jan., 2004 –is working on the installation and testing under LCG-1 –To fulfill the commitment of 60 nodes (16Nodes originally) Mass Storage System –Now using SAN and IBM TSM for management of 30TB+ disk arrays and 130TB+ Tape Library –Will try Caster/Enstore from Feb. 2004 –Dedicated 5 TB+ disk array will be online in Mar. Willing to be a GOC in Asia Plan to collaborate with Karlsruhe for GGUS Schedule for LCG-2