Publications

• Overview
• Virtual Cloud Provider (VCP)
• Applications of VCP
• Literate Computing for Reproducible Infrastructure (LC4RI)
• Case Studies of Hybrid Cloud Architectures for Astronomical Observatory Data
• IoT Stream Processing (SINETStream)
• Cloud Service Checklist
• Zero Trust IoT
• Massively Multi-Connections file transfer protocol (MMCFTP)

Overview

• [Link] Center for Cloud Research and Development (Official Site) Link
• [Link] Academic Cloud Infrastructure for Data-Driven Science, SC21, Nov. 2021. Link
• [Link] Building Academic Inter-Cloud Infrastructure, SC20, Nov. 2020. Link
• [Posters] Building Academic Inter-Cloud Infrastructure, SC19, Nov. 2019. Link
• [Posters] Building Academic Inter-Cloud Infrastructure, SC18, Nov. 2018. Link

Virtual Cloud Provider (VCP)

• [Paper] Generalization of Construction and Operation Methods for a Web-based Programming Exercise Support System Used Simultaneously in Multiple Subjects, Tomoya Saito, Kazuichi Oe, Jun Nishii, Koichi Okada, Takahiro Tamesue, Yue Wang, Yuko Tsutsui, Tomoya Tanjo, Atsuko Takefusa, Journal for Academic Computing and Networking No.28 pp. 1-12, DOI: 10.24669/jacn.28.1_1 (in Japanese)
• [Paper] Development of a Web-based Programming Education Support System for Collaborative and Simultaneous Use Across Multiple Subjects, Kazuichi OE, Tomoya SAITO, Yuko TSUTSUI, Tomoya TANJO, Jun NISHII, Koichi OKADA, Takahiro TAMESUE, Yue WANG, and Atsuko TAKEFUSA, SWoPP 2024 (CPSY2024-30) (in Japanese)
• [Paper] Development of Application Template for Web-based Programming Education Support System can be used jointly and simultaneously in Multiple Subjects, Saito Tomoya, Oe Kazuichi, Nishii Jun, Okada Koichi, Tamesue Takahiro, Wang Yue, Tsutsui Yuko, Tanjo Tomoya, Takefusa Atsuko, IPSJ CLE43 (2024.3) (in Japanese)
• [Paper] Virtual Cloud Service System for Building Effective Inter-Cloud Applications, Atsuko Takefusa, Shigetoshi Yokoyama, Yoshinobu Masatani, Tomoya Tanjo, Kazushige Saga, Masaru Nagaku, Kento Aida, Proc. IEEE CloudCom 2017, pp. 296-303, Dec. 2017. Link
• [Paper] Reproducible Scientific Computing Environment with Overlay Cloud Architecture, Shigetoshi Yokohama, Yoshinobu Masatani, Tazro Ohta, Osamu Ogasawara, Nobukazu Yoshioka, Kai Liu, Kento Aida, Proc. the 9th IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing (IEEE CLOUD 2016), pp. 774-781, Jul. 2016. Link

Dynamic Reconfiguration Framework and its Applications

• [Link] ep3: A workflow engine for CWL which aims to have a pluggable architecture (Repository) Link
• [Link] medal: A workflow engine based on Petri nets (Repository) Link
• [Link] DrillHawk: A visualizer of workflow execution records for CWL (Repository) Link
• [Presentation] How to pass the conformance test #1, Tomoya Tanjo, CWL Workshop Tokyo 2018, Dec. 2018. Link, Movie
• [Paper] Dynamic Framework for Reconfiguring Computing Resources in the Inter-Cloud and Its Application to Genome Analysis Workflows. Tomoya Tanjo, Sun Jingtao, Kazushige Saga, Atsuko Takefusa, and Kento Aida: In Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Internet and Distributed Computing Systems (IDCS 2018), pp.160-172. Oct. 2018. Link
• [Presentation] Automatic Configuration of Galaxy Servers over Multiple Cloud Platforms Using Virtual Cloud Provider. Tomoya Tanjo, Kento Aida, Atsuko Takefusa, Yoshinobu Masatani, Shigetoshi Yokoyama: Galaxy Australasia Meeting 2017 (GAMe 2017), Feb. 2017.

Literate Computing for Reproducible Infrastructure (LC4RI) « DEMO🔗 »

Project website - Literate-Computing.github.io

• [Repository] NII Cloud Operation Team
• [Poster] sidestickies - Collaborative Annotation for Jupyter Notebook. Yoshi NOBU Masatani: JupyterCon 2020, Oct. 2020. link, Talk
• [Poster] OperationHub - Enhanced JupyterHub for DevOps Engineers. Yoshi NOBU Masatani: JupyterCon 2020, Oct. 2020. link, Talk
• [Poster] Sharing Notebook within Small Team. Satoshi Yazawa: JupyterCon 2020, Oct. 2020. link, Talk
• [Presentation] Collaboration and automated operation as literate computing for reproducible infrastructure. Yoshi NOBU Masatani: JupyterCon 2017, Aug. 2017. link, Slides

Case Studies of Hybrid Cloud Architectures for Astronomical Observatory Data

• [Paper] Efficient use of commercial cloud for astronomical data archive and data analysis, George Kosugi, Eisuke Morita, Takeshi Nakazato, Renaud Miel, Hiroaki Tagawa, Kanako Sugimoto, Kento Aida, Hiroshi Yoshida, Proc. SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation: Software and Cyberinfrastructure for Astronomy VIII (2024). Link
• [Presentation] eScience Activities in Japan - Cloud Adoption and Utilization Support in Academic Research Community: PoC for Astronomical Observation Data, Kento Aida, International Symposium on Grids & Clouds (2024). Slides
• [Presentation] Performance and Cost Evaluation of Public Cloud Cold Storage Services for Astronomy Data Archive and Analysis, Hiroshi Yoshida, Kento Aida, George Kosugi, Eisuke Morita, Takeshi Nakazato, Yohei Hayashi, Renaud Miel, International Symposium on Grids & Clouds 2022 (ISGC2021), Mar. 2021. PDF
• [Presentation] Experiments in Storing Scientific Research Data in Cloud Cold Storage Services. Hiroshi Yoshida: In presentations of Storage Developers Conference 2018. PDF

IoT Stream Processing (SINETStream)

Project website - SINETStream

• [Paper] Chisa Ito, Atsuko Takefusa, Hidemoto Nakada, Masato Oguchi, Communication Performance Evaluation Using Compression Processing for IoT Systems in Mobile Environments, Proc. IEEE COMPSAC 2024, SIS-SS, pp. 2374-2379, Jul. 2024. doi: 10.1109/COMPSAC61105.2024.00380.
• [Paper] Weather-aware object detection method for maritime surveillance systems, Mingkang Chen, Jingtao Sun, Kento Aida, Atsuko Takefusa, Future Generation Computer Systems, Volume 151, Pages 111-123, February 2024. Link
• [Paper] R. Sasaki, A. Takefusa, H. Nakada and M. Oguchi, “Development and Evaluation of IoT System Consisting of ROS-based Robot, Edge and Cloud,” 2023 IEEE 47th Annual Computers, Software, and Applications Conference (COMPSAC), Torino, Italy, 2023, pp. 1737-1744, doi: 10.1109/COMPSAC57700.2023.00268.
• [Paper] Development of a Secure Data Sharing Mechanism for IoT Application Systems, Naoya Kitagawa, Atsuko Takefusa and Kento Aida, 2022 IEEE 11th International Conference on Cloud Networking (CloudNet), pp. 131-135, doi: 10.1109/CloudNet55617.2022.9978835, Nov. 2022. Link
• [Paper] Intelligent Live Video Streaming for Object Detection, Mingkang Chen, Jingtao Sun, Kento Aida, Renato Figueiredo, Yun-Jung Ku, Kensworth Subratie,　Proceedings on the 19th IEEE International Conference on Smart City (Smart City 2021) 1427-1434 Dec. 2021. Link
• [Paper] SINETStream: Enabling Research IoT Applications with Portability, Security and Performance Requirements, Atsuko Takefusa, Jingtao Sun, Ikki Fujiwara, Hiroshi Yoshida, Kento Aida, Calton Pu, 2021 IEEE 45th Annual Computers, Software, and Applications Conference (COMPSAC), pp. 482-492, 2021年7月.

Cloud Service Checklist

• [Paper] Cloud service checklist for academic communities and customization for genome medical research, Kumiko Kobayashi, Hiroshi Yoshida, Tomoya Tanjo, Kento Aida, Human Genome Variation 9, Article number: 36 (2022), Oct. 2022. Link
• [Checklist] GakuNin Cloud Adoption Support Service Cloud Checklist Link
• [Checklist] Cloud Checklist for Genome Medical Research Link
• [Checklist] Cloud Checklist for Genome Medical Research tsv file Link sha256sum.txt

Massively Multi-Connections file transfer protocol (MMCFTP)

• [Presentaion] A data transfer method for physics data of experimental fusion reactors using virtual disks, Kenjiro Yamanaka, Hideya Nakanishi, Shinsuke Tokunaga, Shigeo Urushidani, 14th Technical Meeting on Control Systems, Data Acquisition, Data Management and Remote Participation in Fusion Research, São Paulo, Brazil, Jul 15-18, 2024, Link
• [Link] Japanese joint research group achieves a world record of 1.2Tbps for optical signal transmission with over 1Tbps data transfer in field trial, NII News Release, Oct 30, 2023, Link
• [Paper] Demonstration of High-speed Data Replication Relay across Multiple Repository Sites Using a Global Loop Path, Hideya Nakanishi, Kenjiro Yamanaka, Shinsuke Tokunaga, et.al., Plasma and Fusion Research, pp. 2405017, Volume 16, 2021, Link
• [Award] Most Innovative & Novelty Award, Data Mover Challenge 2020, National Supercomputing Centre (NSCC) Singapore, Feb 26, 2020, Link
• [Poster] MMCFTP’s data transfer experiment over 4 x 100 Gbps lines between Japan and Europe, Kenjiro Yamanaka, Vincenzo Capone, Shunji Abe, Shigeo Urushidani, TNC19, Tallinn, Estonia, June 16-20, 2019, Link
• [Paper] High-performance data transfer for full data replication between iter and the remote experimentation centre, Kenjiro Yamanaka, Hideya Nakanishi, Takahisa Ozeki, et.al., Fusion Engineering and Design, pp. 202-209, Volume 138, 2019, Link
• [Poster] 150 Gbps data transfer between Tokyo and London by MMCFTP, Kenjiro Yamanaka, Vincenzo Capone, Shunji Abe, Shigeo Urushidani, TNC17, Linz, Austria, May 29 - June 2, 2017, Link
• [Paper] A TCP/IP-based constant-bit-rate file transfer protocol and its extension to multipoint data delivery, Kenjiro Yamanaka, Shigeo Urushidani, Hideya Nakanishi, et.al., Fusion Engineering and Design, pp. 770-774, Volume 89, 2014, Link