eScience Activities Malaysia Suhaimi Napis Ph D suhaimiupm

e-Science Activities: Malaysia Suhaimi Napis, Ph. D suhaimi@upm. my 3 April 2019

e-Science Activities Updates Not much activities since last year's update! Cabinet reshuffling after general election saw mergers of two important ministries associated with High Performance Computing and MYREN namely MOSTI and MOHE MOSTI merged to become Ministry of Environment, Science, Technology, Energy and Climate Change (MESTECC) MOHE (Ministry of Higher Education) was merged with Ministry of Education to become Ministry of Education Generally across all ministries there is budget cut and infrastructure development received the lowest priority Efforts continues despite the current situation with REENGAGEMENT of ministry officials and also MESTECC Minister

e-Science Activities Updates. . . ASEAN High Performance Computing Task Force was initiated by Singapore and Thailand under ASEAN Committee on Science and Technology under MESTECC The 1 ST ASEAN High Performance Computing (HPC) Meeting Task. Force– 1 was held on 6 - 7 September, 2018 in Singapore The 2 nd ASEAN HPC TF-2 was held also in Singapore on 13 -14 March, 2019 followed by First EU-ASEAN HPC Coordination Group Meeting, 14 -15 March 2019, Singapore Under Enhanced Regional EU-ASEAN Dialogue Instrument (E-READI) Program led by Kostas Glinos, Head of Unit, EU DG RTD Study visit to Japan (Tokyo and Kobe), 15 -17 April, 2019

Outcome of the Future Requirement Survey for ASEAN Countries Adapted from ASEAN TF-2 Config Summary Ver 6 ppt

Outcome of the Future Requirement Survey for Each ASEAN Country Adapted from ASEAN TF-2 Config Summary Ver 6 ppt

Top HPC Applications in AMSs Adapted from ASEAN TF-2 Config Summary Ver 6 ppt

Major Points of the Meeting Outcome Which Model of Shared Infrastructure? EOSC-HUB Model, Open Science Data Cloud or Central "Super HPC" Model Lesson learned from the success EUAsia. GRID FP-7 Project is good (my personal opinion) to ensure sustainability What is the best model of Secure Access Malaysia's proposal for federated login was supported as a use-case: ASEAN FILM (Federated Identity Login Management) with SIFULAN and SGAF to explore Basically "pre-screening" users using National Federation before being allowed for VPN/SSH to be created to access the infrastructure.