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An activity for agricultural research and educational collaboration in Asia Pacific region by Asia Pacific Advanced Network (APAN)
Akira Mizushima/MAFFIN
Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries research network, Japan
Abstract
The Asia Pacific Advanced Network (APAN) and its activities especially in agricultural areas are introduced. APAN has two aims.
One is the provision of high performance network links for research and education throughout the Asia-Pacific area. The other is to accelerate research and educational activities in the area, utilizing the APAN infrastructure. There are two activity areas under the APAN committee, the highest decision-maker of the consortium.
These are; the Technology Area the User Community Area The Agriculture Working Group (AG-WG) is one of the most active working group in the User Community Area.
Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Research Network in Japan
Outline of MAFFIN
Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries research network (MAFFIN) links all research institutes (29
headquarters and 52 branches)
in the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries in Japan by ATM (1 - 12Mbps) and links to Internet by ATM (45Mbps).
MAFFIN is in Tsukuba Office, the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Research Council. There are the Research Computing System, the Network Library System and the Network Information System.
The Research Computing System offers using applications, developing databases and high-end programming environments. the Network Library System offers the union catalog in AFFR, the literature database and the full text databases.
MAFFIN Agropedia System hierarchy
Agropedia: Agro-Encyclopedia Installed - 2000.2
Renewal - 2001.3
Users
Other Database OPAC Database Services CC, COINS, etc Internet Service E-mail, News, WWW Service for Institutes Education Seminar Distance Leaning Current Research Information System Gateway Data Processing Division Molecular Biology, Simulation, etc Fortran, C, etc MAFFIN Web Center Server (Publishing for Research Information) Parallel SMP Super Computer 計算 資 源 Vector Super Computer PC Cluster Server Satellite Data Processing System Data provide System Weather Statistics Satellites, GIS Library Information System Literature Bibliography Internet Archive Mirror System IRRI Genome DB Gene resource File Storage System for Computer Center / Research Information Center NFS File Server (1.3TB + 1.8TB) Tape Storage (120TB) Backup System
Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Research Network
What's APAN?
APAN is a non-profit international consortium established on 3 June 1997. APAN is intended to be a high-performance network for research and development on advanced applications and services. APAN provides advanced networking environment for research community, and promotes international collaboration.
Background
One of the most urgent requirements for the Asia-Pacific research community is to progress the establishment of high speed network services for research and development in advanced networking applications and services.
This requirement was recognized at the APEC Symposium for Realizing the Information Society Field of R&D Activities in March 1996 and the APEC Test bed Forum in June 1996.
The benefits envisaged from providing a high speed research network to link Asia and other continents' networks include availability of advanced networking for test bed and other applications.
As a result, the Members have agreed to work towards setting up an APAN to provide open networking services for research and development of advanced applications and services.
APAN Members
Primary Members
- Australia - Japan - Korea - Singapore - USA
Associate Member
- Malaysia - China
Affiliate Member
- CGIAR
Liaison Members
- Canada - Europe
Other Members
- Hong Kong - Indonesia - Thailand - Philippines
Map of Network Topology
APAN Link Information
1999.10.1
apan-sec
Countries
JP-AU JP-CN JP-HK JP-ID JP-KR JP-MY JP-LK JP-PH JP-SG JP-TH JP-VN JP-US KR-SG KR-US MY-SG SG-US
Network
RWCP-ACSys AI3(CSTNET) SINET(CERNET) AI3(HKUST) AI3(ITB) APII AI3(USM) AI3(UC) MAFFIN(PHNET) AI3(SICU) APII AI3 AI3(AIT) SINET(NECTEC) AI3(IIT) IMNet-HPIIS APII Kornet Pubnet TEMAN (SingaREN) SingaREN
Bandwidth(Mbps)
1.5
1.5
1.5
1.5
1.5
8 1.5
1.5
0.75
1.5
2 2 20 2 14 2 1.5
1.5
2 1.5
73
Availability
Now 1999-2000 1999-2000 Now Now Now 1999-2000 2000(?) Now 2000(?) Now 1999-2000 Now Now 1999-2000 Now Now Now Now Now Now
AUP
Research & Education Research & Education Research & Education Research & Education Research & Education APII Project Research & Education Research & Education Research & Education Research & Education APII Project Research & Education Research & Education Research & Education Research & Education High Performance Research APII Project Cache Non-commercial Research Research & Education
APAN Organization
Committee Allocation/User Service Committee Travel Support Secretariat Engineering Team/NOC Technology Area
Cache IPv6 Network Storage Multicast Measurement Multimedia Satellite Internet Television QoS
User Community Area Agriculture
Astronomy (pending) BioInformatics Digital Library Earth Monitoring Education Grid Medical Informatics Global Design & Manuf.
APAN Committee & WG Meetings
1997 1998 Tokyo, Japan, 2-3 June Tsukuba, Japan, 2-5 March, with IWS98 Seoul, Korea, 1-3 July, with KRNET98 1999 Osaka, Japan, 19-21 February, with IWS99 Canberra, Australia, 21-24 September 2000 Tsukuba, Japan, 15-17 February, with IWS2000 Beijing, China, 22-25 August
Agriculture Working Group (AG-WG)
Founded in March 2, 1998 at Tsukuba Most active group in user User Community Area Related Working Groups Earth Monitoring BioInformatics Education Digital Library
Purpose of AG-WG
The promotion of the international cooperation research which utilizes APAN circuit The sharing of research information resources The support of the APAN project beginning The promotion of national AG-WG, the agricultural information research group forming and the activation The introduction and the introduction of the new information science technology
Current members:
Australia,
China, Korea, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Philippine
, Singapore,
Thailand
and IRRI/CGIAR *
Bold character
established National AG-WG.
Activity phase of AG-WG
Anytime Anywhere, Research Collaborative Environment
Phase III Phase II Collaboration tools and Middle ware Gene resource Genome, DNA Sharing, Archiving, Distribution Soil, Vegetation Earth observation Bibliography Statistics Environment etc.
Meteorological Education, Training materials Phase I Domestic Network Each countries
APAN
TransPAC vBNS, Internet2 Domestic Network
APAN Bio-Mirror
Node AU, CN, JP, KR, MY, SG, TH, US Data Biological Sequence Databases GenBank,EMBL,DDBJ Protein Biosequence Databases SWISS-PROT, TrEMBL, PIR Other Databases Include BLOCKS, ENZYME, PROSITE, REBASE. Current data size: about 23 GB Daily update (about 1 GB/month)
APAN Bio-Mirror
Needs for Bio-Databases
Biological Sequence Database Database catalogs An example of SwisProt record Background of bio-database Data flow Major demand for bio-database Rice Genome research Homology search
Cont’d
APAN Bio-Mirror
Bio-Mirrors for providing Bio-DB
Troubles in getting a database Growth of databases, Data size and update frequency of DNA database Benefits Getting robust mirrors of databases Reducing network traffic Keeping standard databases to be updated Providing network beginners with an easy introduction of mirrors.
Cont’d
Wild Turkey
Digital Asset Mobilization Project of the CGIAR: Archiving, sharing and distribution of agricultural information
CGIAR
Wild Turkey
Purpose 1. Make IRRI information products accessible to national agricultural research systems regionally, in Asia, and globally via information systems at MAFFIN through APAN, initially; later: via additional mirror sites around the world.
2. Develop an inventory of digital information assets of IRRI and of sister centers in the CGIAR, stimulating the development of standards to facilitate sharing and mobilization of information where appropriate.
3. Enable the information resources, including scientists, of IRRI and of the CGIAR to be available for use in the development and especially the delivery of advanced course materials via distance learning in agricultural disciplines. In so doing this the project will seek to develop technical capacity for 1 generating and delivering and 2 using such materials effectively
Cont’d
Wild Turkey
The sharing of the gene resource databases of the rice through APAN RICE: The most important cropper in Asia region The development of the crossing road search system by the Web interface The participating gene banks IRRI, Japan, Thailand, China
Cont’d
Wild Turkey
Mirroring: The digital contents of CGIAR
Cont’d
Wild Turkey
Distance Learning The interactive remote video conference e.g. IRRI/Philippines <--> DoA/Thailand
Cont’d
(via CGnet)
WAICENT Mirroring
What’s is WAICENT The World Agricultural Information Centre FAO's strategic program on information management and dissemination.
WAICENT provides access to FAO's data and information to millions of users per month from around the world.
Japan
WAICENT Mirroring
Present Situation
Korea Philippines Thailand
Cont’d
WAICENT Rome
Other Counties
Malaysia Indonesia Singapore Australia
WAICENT Mirroring
Example performance:
Indonesia - FAO Ping to www.fao.org ping statistics - 29 packets transmitted, 25 packets received, 13% packet loss round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 853.210/896.093/1006.551/45.223 ms >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> traceroute to www.fao.org (193.43.36.7), 30 hops max, 40 byte packets 1 router (167.205.206.197) 0.823 ms 0.576 ms 0.556 ms 2 ITB-Unpad-Pasca.ITB.ac.id (167.205.207.81) 2.437 ms 2.279 ms 2.233 ms 3 indonesia-bandung-wavelan.ITB.ac.id (167.205.207.1) 2.680 ms 2.599 ms 2.594 ms 4 ai3-indonesia-ether.ITB.ac.id (167.205.23.2) 3.108 ms 3.088 ms 3.066 ms 5 bsdi3-ne0.ai3.net (202.249.47.33) 3.643 ms 3.603 ms 3.590 ms 6 202.249.47.81 (202.249.47.81) 502.979 ms 503.217 ms 502.948 ms 7 bay2.ai3.net (202.249.47.24) 503.969 ms 503.770 ms 503.740 ms 8 cisco6.nara.wide.ad.jp (203.178.140.225) 507.173 ms 504.862 ms 504.863 ms 9 cisco2.otemachi.wide.ad.jp (203.178.136.85) 523.230 ms * 522.555 ms 10 cisco1.otemachi.wide.ad.jp (203.178.137.33) 522.929 ms 522.368 ms 522.413 ms 11 cisco4.otemachi.wide.ad.jp (203.178.138.114) 684.802 ms 702.444 ms 731.720 ms 12 210.132.94.69 (210.132.94.69) 651.611 ms 690.399 ms * 13 203.181.96.165 (203.181.96.165) 658.117 ms * 663.247 ms 14 tr-ote2.kddnet.ad.jp (203.181.96.150) 687.739 ms 669.187 ms 644.626 ms 15 border5-hssi1-0.Sacramento.cw.net (204.70.120.5) 684.813 ms 650.297 ms 690.777 ms 16 core6.SanFrancisco.cw.net (204.70.4.89) 676.879 ms 689.990 ms 680.774 ms 17 mci-bbn-hay2.core6.bbnplanet.net (206.157.77.18) 664.559 ms 660.372 ms 665.480 ms 18 * p3-3.paloalto-nbr1.bbnplanet.net (4.0.1.218) 674.928 ms 716.532 ms 19 p2-0.nyc4-nbr2.bbnplanet.net (4.0.2.202) 793.054 ms 770.074 ms 779.710 ms 20 p8-0-0.london2-cr2.bbnplanet.net (4.0.5.134) 860.682 ms * 810.362 ms 21 s0-1-0.amsterdam1-cr1.bbnplanet.net (195.16.160.73) 814.034 ms * 851.396 ms 22 s0-1.faoun.bbnplanet.net (195.16.168.14) 864.048 ms 872.985 ms 852.613 ms 23 193.43.36.7 (193.43.36.7) 874.429 ms 866.353 ms 896.239 ms
Cont’d
WAICENT mirror
Japan
WAICENT Mirroring
Step - I
Korea Philippines Thailand WAICENT Rome
Data
APAN Tokyo XP
Other Counties
Cont’d
Malaysia Indonesia Singapore Australia
WAICENT mirror
Japan
WAICENT Mirroring
Step - II
WAICENT mirror
Korea
WAICENT mirror
Philippines
WAICENT mirror
Thailand
Cont’d
WAICENT Rome
DANTE ?
STAR TAP
APAN Tokyo XP
Other Counties WAICENT mirror
Malaysia
WAICENT mirror
Indonesia
WAICENT mirror
Singapore
WAICENT mirror
Australia
WAICENT mirror
ANDES
Asia- Pacific Network for Disaster Mitigation using Earth Observation Satellite
ANDES
Asia- Pacific Network for Disaster Mitigation using Earth Observation Satellite The objective of this project is to detect and inform disasters in Asia-Pacific region as soon as possible by using satellite data and high-capacity network systems.
The following four study themes are executed: such as the study on Real time Archiving: to develop a real time archiving and delivering system of satellite data Forest Fire: to detect fire and create fire risk map Agricultural Disaster: to detect flood and create drought risk map Heavy rain: to evaluate the data of Tropical Rain Measuring Mission (TRMM).
Cont’d
TransPAC
ANDES
Asia- Pacific Network for Disaster Mitigation using Earth Observation Satellite STARTAP
NOAA
AIT/TH APAN
Cont’d DMSP-OLS
NOAA-NGDC NCAR vBNS IMnet NREN
NOAA
MAFFIN
Processing, Archiving Distribution
Asia Pacific countries NASA
TRMM
Pisces
Supply of DMSP Data For Asian Pacific Earth Monitoring Applications in APAN
Pisces
Supply of DMSP Data For Asian Pacific Earth Monitoring Applications in APAN The U.S. Air Force Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (DMSP) operates a series of day-night and dawn-dusk satellites equipped with earth and space environment sensors. Premiere earth observation sensors include the Operational Line scan System (OLS)and the Special Sensor Microwave Imager (SSMI).
OLS can be used to monitor fires, heavily lit fishing boats, power conditions in cities, and tropical storm systems.
SSMI data can be used to monitor tropical storms and rainfall rates.
The U.S. Air Force limits direct access to DMSP data. The NOAA NGDC serves as the long term archive for DMSP data and provides access to the data for civil and environmental applications.
Under this project, NGDC will supply DMSP data of the Asian Pacific region to MAFFIN, CRISP, SEA-START and other potential users with APAN membership and connectivity.
Cont’d
Eco-DB
Searching & sharing Ecosystem-data through WWW: Establishment of infrastructure and its application to other Agro-Ecosystem studies and practices
Background
Fact data on Gas and Energy exchange over various ecosystems are needed to reveal the Global Change and to develop Models for climate estimation and application. However, the limited access to the data is serious problem. Thus, we have been Providing the fact database Developing the infrastructure using World Wide Web
Data
Quality Control
Picture
DB server Local Network
Internet
Web Browser Web page Graph Numerical data
Netscape IE
Data Web server Numerical Data Graphic data Documentation Query PC+Windows NT Action Firewall system
Cont’d Eco-DB Cont’d
User Host
Eco-DB
Observation sites in the Ecosystem Database Inner-Mongolia, Semi-arid Area Alaska, Arctic tundra
Cont’d
・ Rice field ・ Lotus field ・ Soybean field ・ Grassland ・ Kushiro mire Sardinia, Mediterranean Macchia California, Chaparral (SDSU) Arizona, FACE/wheat (USDA)
Present Issues and Agenda of AG-WG
Way to start up research collaborations Still personal-based incentives Poor inland network infrastructure Good connectivity between centers Does not facilitate communication between centers and clients Computer literacy Too much priority on hardware Unstable funds Voluntary NGO-like activities
Muito obrigado!
Thank you very much!
Contact: Akira Mizushima/MAFFIN [email protected]