Climate Simulation using Ninf-G: Researchers at AIST and NCHC ran a weather prediction system using Ninf-G, developed by AIST, using 22 clusters from 21 institutions and 10 countries (total 853 cpus) spanning PRAGMA and ApGrid sites. The fifteen PRAGMA institutions whose resources were used include Osaka, AIST, TITECH, Tsukuba, KISTI, NCHC, Monash, Hyderabad, KU, BII, USM, NCSA, SDSC, TransPAC and APAN. These resources appropriately shared the Grid RPC application layer. The output of the simulation was displayed using tools developed by NCHC on the NCHC’s 3D Virtual Reality Equipment. In addition, with a new version Ninf-G Version 2.0.0a a Ninf-G climate simulation was run successfully on the NCSA TeraGrid System, AIST, TITECH, and KISTI, collectively 500 cpus. Other applications were demonstrated using Ninf-G, and Ninf-G, through the PRAGMA collaboration, became part of the software that was automatically installed within a two-hour timeframe for a 128 node cluster using the NPACI Rocks software from SDSC.

Grid Based Pseudo-Potential Parameter Search using Nimrod with Applications to Macro Molecular Systems: Researchers at Monash University and the University of California San Diego San Diego Supercomputer Center demonstrated Nimrod/G’s capabilities by performing an enormous computational chemistry experiment using the grid. Nimrod/G ran some 50,000 instances of the GAMESS chemistry package on as many as 30 super-computers, distributed over 10 countries. It spanned testbeds of PRAGMA, The Australian Grid Forum and the TeraGrid. By harnessing the grid resources so efficiently with grid middleware Nimrod/G, the calculations, a parameter sweep using GAMESS, produced a better understanding of the full parameter space in a few days than could have been gained otherwise over many months. These types of enabling tools will enable much faster analysis procedures and has re-invigorated the approach of using pseudopotential calculations to understand applications in the areas such as drug design or enzymatic reaction processes.

Encyclopedia of Life – Large Scale Grid-enabled Sequence Annotation: Researchers at UCSD, the Bioinformatics Institute in Singapore and Tokyo Institute of Technology integrated workflow, portal, grid computing technologies and bioinformatics applications to annotate more than 36,000 proteins, as part of a continuing process to catalog the available proteome of every living species into an electronic reference system, the Encyclopedia of Life. This demonstration use resources in six countries, the United States, Singapore, Japan, Brazil, Australia and the United Kingdom, and produced the latest annotations (e.g. structural family relationships that give insight to functional activities) for selected proteins from 73 proteomes. All the annotation results from the EOL project are available freely to the global community (http://eol.sdsc.edu).

The "Trans-Pacific Grid Datafarm" team, which won the Distributed Infrastructure Award for a geographically distributed file system which took advantage of multiple physical paths to achieve high-performance over long distances. For the competition, the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology of Japan (AIST) replicated terabyte-scale experimental data between the United States and Japan over several OC-48 links. Five clusters in Japan (AIST, Tokyo Institute of Technology, University of Tsukuba, KEK, and APAN Tokyo XP), three in the United States (Indiana University, SDSC, and the SC2003 showfloor), and one in Thailand (Kasetsart Univeristy) constituted a Grid virtual file system of 70 terabytes capacity, federating local file systems on each cluster node. The file transfer rate between the U.S. and Japan—about 10,000 km or 6,000 miles—was 3.57 gigabits per second. The team included members from AIST, Tokyo Institute of Technology, University of Tsukuba, KEK, APAN Tokyo XP, and TransPAC/Indiana University.

The "Multi-Continental Telescience" team won the Application Award. The team presented a multidisciplinary entry that showcased technology and partnerships encompassing telescience, microscopy, biomedical informatics, optical networking, next-generation protocols and collaborative research. The demonstration involved globally-distributed resources and users in the United States, Argentina, Japan, Korea, the Netherlands, Sweden and Taiwan. High network bandwidth over IPv6 allowed participants to the control multiple high energy electron microscopes, enabling interactive multi-scale visualization of data pulled from the BIRN Grid and facilitating large-scale grid-enabled computation. The team was the only entrant to use the IPv6 protocols, and sustained an impressive bandwidth of 1.13 gigabits per second. Multi-continental Telescience team included members from UCSD, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Karolinska Institute, Osaka University, Center for Ultra High Voltage Microscopy, KDDI R&D Labs, KBSI, KISTI, NCHC, and SDSC.