APAN WG Highlights

Cloud working group

About

CloudWG was first held as a BoF at APAN38@Nantou in August 2014. Since then, 2-4 working group sessions have been held at each APAN meeting (although there were 7 sessions at APAN40 (2015 @Kuala Lumpur)). Kashiwazaki, the author of this manuscript, was pushed into the role of co-chair by Prof. Okamura of Kyushu University and has been involved with this WG since APAN42 (2016 @HongKong). Currently, the CloudWG Chair is Jongwon Kim of GIST, Korea, and the co-chair is Eric Yen of SINICA, Taiwan, and Hiroki Kashiwazaki of Kindai University, Japan.

What does your WG do?

The main content of the cloud working group session consists of introductions to the academic cloud infrastructure that Jongwon, Eric, and I, Hiroki, are involved in, with a program of guest speakers and willing presenters. At the most recent APAN55, Jongwon presented "Preparing Cloud-native & Data-centric Computing for Live X+AI Services," which discussed the relationship between AI and live information streams in GIST. Eric presented "Update of Science Cloud in Academia Sinica," which discussed the configuration of the Science Cloud at Academia Sinica and its middleware. Hiroki usually presents "Distcloud update," a Japanese volunteer-based wide-area distributed cloud. Still, this time I presented "A Resource-transparent wide-area distributed computing environment with a functional paradigm in the Beyond 5G era”, The presentation was about Beyond 5G research and development.

Guest speakers and willing presentations included, for example, in APAN52, Prof. Pang-Wei Tsai of National Central Univ. in Taiwan, who presented "SDN-based Internet eXchange Playground for Networkers: Design, Development and Operation", and Dr. Aris Cahyadi Risdianto of National University of Singapore with "Service-oriented Network Observation for SDN-based Internet eXchange Playground," Natt Visavarungroj of Chulalongkorn Univ. “Preliminary Result on Study of HTTP-Based DoS Attack in Multi-Admin Kubernetes Federation Playground" and so on. Presentations from various countries and research fields and lively discussions were exchanged.

Plans

Although CloudWG activity declined during COVID-19, we hope to return to the pre-COVID-19 activity level in the next APAN56. To maximize the benefits of working within APAN by creating projects, We would like to continue to create value through collaboration with other working groups actively.