| Contents | 6 |
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| Program Committee | 10 |
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| Contributors | 12 |
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| Part I Grid Activities in Asia Pacific | 16 |
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| Chapter 1 Asia Federation Report on International Symposium on Grid Computing 2009 (ISGC 2009) | 17 |
| Executive summary | 17 |
| Asia-EU | 18 |
| 1. Australia | 20 |
| Physical Network | 20 |
| Australian Research Collaboration Service (ARCS) | 21 |
| Progress of HEP Grid in Australia | 22 |
| 2. China | 24 |
| Progress of HEP Grid in China | 24 |
| 3. India | 26 |
| ERNET | 26 |
| National and International Grid Computing Initiatives | 27 |
| Progress of HEP Grid in India | 28 |
| 4. Indonesia | 29 |
| 5. Japan | 31 |
| Progress of HEP Grid in Japan | 32 |
| 6. Malaysia | 34 |
| 7. Pakistan | 37 |
| Progress of HEP Grid in Pakistan | 37 |
| 8. Philippines | 39 |
| 9. Singapore | 41 |
| 10. South Korea | 43 |
| 11. Taiwan | 46 |
| Progress of HEP in Taiwan | 49 |
| 12. Thailand | 50 |
| 13. Vietnam | 51 |
| Chapter 2 Research and Deployment a Hospital Open Software Platform for e-Health on the Grid System at VAST/ IAMI | 52 |
| Abstract | 52 |
| 1. Grid Computing Overview | 53 |
| 1.1. Grid Computing in Vietnam and on the world | 53 |
| 1.2. Introduction about Grid Computing | 53 |
| 2. Components and Structure of Grid Model | 55 |
| 2.1. General architecture of Middleware and gLite Technology | 55 |
| 2.2. Services of gLite Grid Middleware | 55 |
| 2.3. Main components of gLite [9] | 56 |
| 2.4. Introduction about Metadata and AMGA on the Grid | 57 |
| 2.5. Overview of AMGA (ARDA Metadata Grid Application) | 58 |
| 3. A Telemedicine Platform for Information and Images Management on the Grid | 59 |
| 3.1. HOPE Platform Introduction | 59 |
| 3.1.1. Why to build the Hope Platform? | 59 |
| 3.1.2. Obstacles and challenges | 60 |
| 3.1.3. Related technologies | 60 |
| 3.2. Deploy the HOPE platform | 60 |
| 3.2.1. Introduction | 60 |
| 3.2.2. HOPE Platform Structure | 61 |
| 3.2.3. Medical data sharing | 61 |
| 3.2.4. Requirements of HOPE System | 62 |
| 3.2.5. Current deployment and perspectives: | 63 |
| 4. HOPE Package Installation | 64 |
| 4.1. HOPE’ s packages | 64 |
| 4.2. The result of HOPE installation | 64 |
| 5. Conclusion | 66 |
| Acknowledgments | 66 |
| References | 66 |
| Chapter 3 WLCG Node in Pakistan – Challenges | 66 |
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| Abstract | 68 |
| 1. Introduction | 68 |
| 2. Experiences Gained during Grid Infrastructure Deployment | 70 |
| 2.1 Challenges Met | 70 |
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| 2.2 Challenges Met | 70 |
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| 3. Performance Statistics of NCP-LCG2 Site | 7
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