SINGAPORE, MARCH 13, 2025. A “Mini Global Research Platform (GRP) Workshop” meeting was held on Thursday, March 13, 2025, at this year’s SupercomputingAsia 2025 conference (SCA2025) in Singapore.
GRP was established to create a worldwide Software Defined, Globally Distributed, Multi-Domain Computational Science Environment for data-intensive research including remote access to HPC facilities, storage and computing and AI development resources, including GPU farms and, in particular, advanced networking capabilities for large-scale data transfers.
This session covered recent advances in the deployment of the GRP, the Asia Pacific Research Platform (APRP) as well as the US and Korean efforts under the NRP and KRP initiatives respectively. This session also covered international communications with the advent of 400Gbps and soon beyond, and announced the 2025 Data Mover Challenge (DMC25), which will again allow participants to judge the progress in data transmission speeds and throughput both on subsea and satellite.
Mini-GRP Workshop co-chairs were Francis Lee Bu Sung, SingAREN; Joe Mambretti, NU/iCAIR/StarLight; and, Jeonghoon Moon, KISTI.
Presentations are now available:
SingAREN Open Exchange and GRP – Francis Lee Bu Sung, SingAREN
From Spectrum to Quantum: ESnet’s contributions to building the next-generation research platform – Inder Monga, ESnet
The Asia Pacific Research Platform in APAN & KRP: An Overview – Jeonghoon Moon, KISTI
Australia Research Platform and the SKA – Andrew Howard, National Computational Infrastructure (NCI)
Open Data eXchange and Research Platform in Korea – Chanjin Park, Head, KISTI/KREONET
ESnet High-Touch Telemetry – Finding a needle in a needle-stack – Chin Guok, ESnet
Accelerated ONION based on DTN experience – Susumu Date, Osaka University, Cybermedia Center
SCinet, NRE Program, and OFCnet – Rodney Wilson, Ciena Corporation, External Research
Supporting International Partnerships in Science: The Role of International Networks at Indiana University – Brenna Meade, Indiana University, International Networks
The Global Research Platform: An Overview – Joe Mambretti, NU/iCAIR/StarLight
Fiber Sensing using State of Polarization – Marc Lyonnais, Ciena, External Research
Reflections on DMC – Andrew Howard, NCI
Photo of Mini-GRP Speakers and Organizers
