GLORIAD Korea Team.
Drs.Young-Hwa Cho and Jysoo Lee of KISTI lead the team in Korea
KISTI is home to a national supercomputing center and has led national e-Science and Grid initiatives. In particular, KISTI has established 12 GigaPoP connections of 5-10Gbps in 11 areas throughout Korea. It also manages KREONET (Korea Research Environment Open Network) which has over 250 member organizations of academia and research institutes. KREONET provides Grid/e-Science based high-end empowering application services with its global scale high performance network engineering.
It has long experience in international networking to EuroPANet (EU) and NSFNET (US), IMNET (Japan). Recently, it has been actively experimenting with lambda networking with its recent connection to StarLight, Abilene, and CAnet4. It has been also working closely with the engineering team of NLANR.
Dr. YoungHwa Cho,President of KISTI is responsible for building large part of Korean scientific information infrastructure with computing, networking and information technology. He is one of the pioneers of Korea scientific database system, and is leading KISTI for over 5 years.
Dr. Jysoo Lee is the director of Supercomputing Center in KISTI. He has been leading Korea supercomputing and cluster community, and responsible for building Korean national Grid and e-Science infrastructure. He is also the deputy director of PRAGMA.
Dr. Ok-Hwan Byeon is one of the pioneers in the development of Korea’s Internet and lead for building KREONet/KREONet2/SuperSIReN since 1988. He also was responsible for building links to the US (NSFNET/STAR TAP/StarLight), EU (EuroPANet), Japan (IMNET). He is the head of the department of network engineering & research for KREONET.
Dr. Lee’s senior team consists of the following members:
Ok-Hwan Byeon, Jai Seung Kwak, and Woojin Seok carry out R&D on the high-performance networking technology; and Mr. IlSun Hwang is in charge of operating for the advanced KREONET service with HyeokRo Lee and DongKyun Kim. Dr. Sang Min Lee supports the supercomputing application research and technology service.
The following lists several of the members of the Korean GLORIAD Team.
- Mr. Dong Kyun Kim
- Mr. Hyeak Ro Lee
- Mr. Il Sun Hwang
- Dr. Jai Seung Kwak
- Mr. Jong Uk Kong
- Dr. Sang Min Lee
- Mr. Woo Jin Seok
Description of KISTI Activities related to GLORIAD
KISTI is home to a national supercomputing center and has led national e-Science and Grid initiatives. In particular, KISTI has established 12 GigaPoP connections of 5-10Gbps in 11 areas throughout Korea. It also manages KREONET (Korea Research Environment Open Network) which has over 250 member organizations of academia and research institutes. KREONET provides Grid based high-end empowering application services with its global scale high performance network engineering.KISTI has been building and operating the national science and technology network of KREONET, and it has been carrying out K*Grid---the national Grid project of Korea. It has long experience in international networking to EuroPANet (EU) and NSFNET (US), IMNET (Japan). Recently, it has been actively experimenting with lambda networking with its recent connection to StarLight, Abilene, and CAnet4. It has been also working closely with the engineering team of NLANR.
KISTI’s collaboration with international partners began in 1992 with connection to CERFNET/NSFNET of SDSC in US, which was the first connection to international link. KREONET extended its connection to EuroPaNet of EU in 1994, and to IMNET of Japan in 1995. KISTI has been quite actively participating in international collaborations on network engineering and advanced applications through agreements of each governments. Also, since 2001 KISTI has established connections with STARTAP/StarLight, the gateway to the research networks of the United States, and CA*net4. These connections have enabled active collaboration in building e-Science based Lambda Grid with international scientists and researchers.
At present, Korea is actively carrying out Grid-based supercomputing and e-Science collaborative researches throughout the advanced network infrastructure. These actions will be extended to GLORIAD activity so that they can play a major role in advancing the science and research development of the world. Through these efforts, KISTI has signed MoU with NCSA and CNIC/CAS in China and is actively participating in the collaboration. The candidate applications based on GLORIAD are expected to include High Energy Physics, ITER/Fusion Energy, Atmospheric Science, Nano materials, Bioinformatics/Bioengineering, Space Sciences, Telemedicine applications, all of which require high bandwidth and quality for their scientific and technological researches.
