An Experimental Intra And Inter-institutional Cloud Infrastructure among National Universities in The Tokai Region of Japan Shoji Kajita, Ph.D IT Planning Office, Institute for Information Management and Communication Academic Center for Computing and Media Studies Kyoto University
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Tokai Academic Cloud: An Experimental Intra And Inter-institutional Cloud Infrastructure
among National Universitiesin The Tokai Region of Japan
Shoji Kajita, Ph.DIT Planning Office, Institute for Information
Management and CommunicationAcademic Center for Computing and Media Studies
Kyoto University
Kyoto University• One of the seven key national universities in Japan• About 10,000 faculty, researcher & admin. staff• About 23,000 under-graduate & graduate students
Tokyo
NagoyaOsaka
Kyoto
500km500km
Tokai Area = Central Part of JapanTokai Area = Central Part of Japan
Nagoya
5,00016,000
NagoyaInstitute of Technology
Shizuoka UniversityMie University
Gifu University
NagoyaUniversity
ToyohashiInstitute of Technology
※ Google Maphttp://maps.google.com
Tokai Academic Cloud ConsortiumA Virtual Consortium Among Six ITCs in National Universities
Contributions to ICA Community1. Describe the current experiences of Tokai
Academic Cloud under development2. Propose a proxy type of Federated Shibboleth
Authentication Handler for Identity Management of Consortium Cloud
3. Present our current activities on the use of VCL for teaching and learning at Nagoya U
Emphasizing cultural aspects on implementing intra and inter-institutional cloud infrastructure
from the view of Japanese H.E.
Emphasizing cultural aspects on implementing intra and inter-institutional cloud infrastructure
from the view of Japanese H.E.
Tokai Academic Cloud
Challenges for Higher Educational Institutions
• Severe Competition among H.E. institutions in the world– Due to the globalization of economics supported
by Information and Communication Technologies
• Severe Budget Cuts– Due to the economic downturn caused by the
world’s economic crisis of 2008
Each institution must strengthen its organizational power
with clear foresight and strategic visions
Each institution must strengthen its organizational power
with clear foresight and strategic visions
“Academic Cloud”
• We need to develop ``Academic Cloud'' as cloud computing of the academia, by the academia and for the academia
• The aim is to fulfill diverse needs from constituencies and to accommodate the complexity of academic and administrative computing requirements with affordable costs
Academic Cloud Environment
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Collaborative Academic Service Platform to proved wide range services from HPC to Teaching and Learning
on Large-scale Virtualized Computing Resources
Research Theme
Cloud-type Academic Services on Widely Distributed and Virtualized
Information Service Platform
Research Theme
Cloud-type Academic Services on Widely Distributed and Virtualized
Information Service Platform
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NagoyaInstitute of Technology
Shizuoka University
Mie University
Gifu University
NagoyaUniversity
ToyohashiInstitute of Technology
※ Google Maphttp://maps.google.com
Tokai Academic Cloud ConsortiumA Virtual Consortium Among Six ITCs in National Universities
• June, 2009– Having a meeting with the directors
(or the delegation) from each ITC• October, 2009
– Slected as a research project in the grant program of Joint Usage/Research Center for Interdisciplinary Large-scale Informa-tion Infrastructure
– PI: The Director of Nagoya Institute of Technology
– Center: Nagoya U• September, 2009
– IBM Shared University Award• April, 2010
– Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research for 3 Yrs. (200K US$)
Background Started as a Research
• Most of national universities in Japan, a lot of faculty in IT Center have been getting involved in these operational issues
• Operation itself is the matter of Cloud Computing
• Best practices are still unclear and research issues must be there
FederatedShibbolethAuthenticationHandleras A Proxy Authentication
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Federated ShibFederated Shib
Nagoya U Shib IdP
Nagoya U Shib IdP
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• Still under development • Could be an issue against security policy because it may
create a man-in-the-middle security hole
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Its Implementation
(3) Current Activities on Use of VCL for Teaching and Learning
at Nagoya University
Tokai VCL
+100 Concurrent Uses Available Potentiallyon About 30 IBM BladeCenters
Nagoya University VCL Pilot
• Currently, five professors have been investigating the use in 2012 semesters:– Mathematics (Mathematica on Linux)– Signal Processing (Scilab on Linux)– Image Processing (Scilab and OpenCV on Linux)– Bio Informatics (PyMOL and Yasara on Linux)– Media Literacy (OpenCast on Linux)
• See Paper for detailed background and scenarios
PyMOL on Ubuntu
Cultural Aspects on Pilot
1. A Very Small Pilot– Again, due to the lack of operation staff and budgets
2. Use of Linux only– A strong opposition to enter Campus Agreement for
dominant OS product
3. Use of Open Source and Shareware-based Applications– Limit of Budget– Scalability