SingAREN’s Participation in 5GRP Workshop, Osaka Japan: 16 – 17 Sep 2024
26 Sep 2024 – The 5th Global Research Platform Workshop (5GRP) took place on 16 – 17 September 2024 in Osaka, Japan. The workshop focused on the transfer of large data covering from Testbeds to services that support the requirements of such applications, for example, streaming protocol SciStream. A/Prof Francis Lee, President of SingAREN, participated in this 2-days event via presentations and group discussions.
A/Prof Francis Lee presented a talk titled “Resilient high speed network to support Global Science Research” at the workshop; where he shared how the Global NRENs collaborated to create a resilient high-speed backbone, in multiple of 100Gbps that connects the various NRENs. Additionally, he emphasized the signing of MOUs with APOnet, AsiaPacific-Europe-Ring (AER) have helped to strengthen this resilience over time.
He used the AER collaboration as an example to showcase a strong network resilience, and where the NREN community had benefited greatly from the increasing number of submarine cable cuts in recent months. Through this kind of cooperation, the NRENs can support one another’s global connectivity and reduce downtime when repairs to submarine cable cuts resulting from geopolitical situations, such as those in the Red Sea, require extended periods of downtime.
He gave the following examples of applications requiring high bandwidth and/or low latency for NRENs, as well as the adaptability of resilient NREN networks:
- There will be a demonstration of 800 Gbps transfer across an aggregated link in the coming Supercomputing SC24 conference,
- A successful remote robot surgery demonstration between National University Hospital, Singapore, and Fujita Hospital, Japan in Oct 2023.
SingAREN has established a distributed POP and built-in resilience to support both local and international connectivity. He also shared other projects such as Asi@Connect that build connectivity from the POPs to the developing and less developed countries as well as building capacity.
Figure 1 Snapshot of speakers who participated in 5GRP. First row from left: Joe Mambretti (StarLight/iCAIR/Northwestern Univ., USA), Bu Sung Francis Lee (SingAREN; Nanyang Technological Univ., Singapore), Jeonghoon Moon (KISTI/KREONET Center, Korea), Ilkay Altinas (UC San Diego, San Diego Supercomputer Center, USA), Buseung Cho (KISTI/KREONET, Korea), and Osamu Akashi (National Institute of Informatics, Japan). Second row from left: Susumu Date (Osaka Univ., Japan), Jason Haga (National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology [AIST], Japan), Brenna Meade (Indiana Univ., USA), Aki Nakao (Univ, of Tokyo, Japan), Chin Guok (ESnet, Department of Energy, USA), and Rod Wilson (Ciena Corporation, Canada) – Photo credit to Maxine Brown and organiser of GRP24
Figure 2 Jason Haga (AIST, Japan) presented at the 5GRP Workshop 2024 – Photo credit to Maxine Brown and organiser of GRP24
A/Prof Lee summed up his 5GRP experience: “It was a great platform for researchers, academics and industry working on network and network services.”
References:
- 5th Global Research Platform Workshop (5GRP)
- APOnet https://www.aponet.global/
- Asia-Pacific Europe Ring (AER)
- SingAREN article on AER collaboration
- SingAREN article on remote robot surgery demonstration