About Our InetCompu (or GridCompu)     [ 한글 설명 ]

1. Our Concept and Terminology
If a person, for instance, using PC, PDA, or Mobile Phone, can perform the kinds of computations he wants on a remote Server, where he is not even required to have his own account, and is also allowed to get back the computed results immediately, then we call such a service, InetCompu (Internet Computing, Copyrighted) or GridCompu (Grid Computing, Copyrighted).   

2. What we have done so far
Several years ago, Prof. Sun T. Soh in Department of Mathematics, Myong Ji University, Rep. of Korea, figured out a practical method to actually realize the needed Software Interface (called General Purpose Grid Middleware Interface) for such an InetCompu Service, and he finished the development of the first primitive but working version of the Inferface at around August 16, 2001. Later on, the Interface for InetCompu was significantly upgraded by him to such a degree that it can handle the in-comming data more neatly and smartly. The final version currently in usage had also passed a rigorous local fields test successfully.

As of August 28, 2001, we began to provide an InetCompu Service, i.e. whoever sends to a particular e-mail address at our Server an e-mail, for example, containing either (i) an input data for an application program in our Server for a certain mathematical formula (for instance, input: n=1234567 to numbpart@trinitas.mju.ac.kr in plain text format (cf. intro2numbpart.html) or (ii) his own program, for instance, written in Reduce commands (cf. intro2InetReduce.html), he will soon receive the computed results from our Server. This means that we have established and secured the needed basic Protocol-related Problems for our InetCompu.

3. Announcements
If you have your own program for a specific purpose such as numbpart, you may contribute yours to our InetCompu Service Engine for those who need it. Or if you are in charge of Super Computing Center and would like to participate our InetCompu Service from your High Performance Server by providing the same kind of services as we are doing from ours, through our "General Purpose Grid Middleware Interface" installed in your Server, you are strongly encouraged to do so. In either cases, please contact our Center for further information on such Services. 

4. 예상기대 효과 
고가의 전산장비인 슈퍼컴퓨터의 CPU, Main Memory 혹은 Hard Disk 등의 유휴 Hardware 의 효율적인 활용을 주된 목표로 하고 있는 최근의 Grid Project를 개념적으로 심화, 발전시켜, 무형의 자산인 응용프로그램(즉,Software)를 효율적으로 취합, 관리하면서 누구나 이들을 손쉽게 사용할 수 있는 전산 인프라 환경을 구축하여 제공하는 것을 궁극적 목표로 하여 본 센터에서 추진하고 있는 InetCompu Project가 성공리에 진행이 될 경우에는,  이미 보편화되어 있는 초고속 인터넷 환경 하에서 향후 교수님들의 교육 및 연구 수행에 특히 많은 도움을 줄 수 있을 것으로 기대합니다.  대부분의 교수님들께서는 프로그램을 짜는 일을 대학원생들에게 시키고 있는 경우가 많은데, 연구 및 교육용 계산 관련 프로그램의 경우에 있어, 이러한 프로그램 짜기를 담당한 대학원생이 졸업 등으로 학교를 떠난 후에도 누구나 위에 소개한 InetCompu 서비스를 통하여 해당 응용 프로그램의 계산을 언제나 손 쉽게 수행할 수 있는 환경이 체계적으로 제공된다는 것은, 향후의 교육 및 연구 환경의 상당한 변화가 있을 수 있음을 예고 혹은 의미하는 것일 것입니다.