Current Status of Thailand s Grid Community and Grid...
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Current Status of Thailand’s Grid Community and Grid
Development Activities
Piyawut SrichaikulComputing Research and Development Division
National Electronics and Computer Technology CenterNational Science and Technology Development Agency
ISGC200427-28 July 2004
ASCC, Taiwan
Outlines
Thailand’s status and activitiesCommunity and CollaborationGrid ApplicationNetwork Connectivity
Emerging project/Future Plans
NECTEC’s roles
Community: ThaiGrid
A partnership project to explore grid computing technology and application in Thailand. Project started since December 2000
Build a grid related community for application level researchersCreate a grid computing infrastructure for Thai researchersStimulate the deployment of Grid Computing TechnologyAct as a focal point for international grid collaboration
Currently funded by National Research Council of Thailand (NRCT) Commission on Higher Education, Ministry of Education
Link: http://www.thaigrid.net
ThaiGrid Members
Kasetsart UniversityKing Mongkut’s Institute of Technology North BangkokSuranaree University of Technology Asian Institute of TechnologyChulalongkorn UniversityWalailak UniversityChiangmai UniversityKMUTTNational Electronics and Computing Technology
Community: Computational Science and Engineering Program Consortium
The Annual National Symposium on Computational Science and Engineering (http://csep.hpcc.nectec.or.th/anscse/)
Computational Mathematics Computational Physics Computational Chemistry and Biology Computational Fluid Dynamics Computational Mechanics Geocomputing Environmental Modeling etc.
The 8th ANSCSE, 21-23 July, 2004287 participants150 presentations
International Grid CollaborationAPAN
Participation in Grid working groupE-ScienceNatural Resource
ApGrid project
Asia Pacific Grid technology test bedAPAG project International Access grid Test bed
PRAGMA Project
Grid application test bedGAMESS over the gridNPACI Rocks / SCEGfarm
Pacific Neighborhood Consortium
Applications being developed
Computational Fluid DynamicsSimulation
Scheduling, OptimizationComputational Chemistry
Virtual Drug Screening, CheminformaticsDistributed data broker
Extended NARC’s Met brokerFuture
Life Science, Multimedia, Financial Engineering
Example: Developing of DRUG DESIGN GRID
Using grid technology to pull HPC resources together to support scientist mission
Drug design : HIV, Avian Flu ( KU/Ministry of Science)
PartnersHPCNC/KU, LCAC/KUIBM
Example: Met Data Broker
Agriculture applications: prediction & planningData sources: Files, SQL databasesData organization:
by stationby elementby locationby each resolution (hourly, daily)
Partner: NECTEC-NARC-HAII
Met Data Broker in Grid Architecture
Coherency control, replica selection, task management, virtual data catalog, virtual data code catalog, …
Discipline-Specific Data Grid Application
Replica catalog, replica management, co-allocation, certificate authorities, metadata catalogs, Access to data, access to computers, access to network performance data, …
Communication, service discovery (DNS), authentication, authorization, delegation
Storage systems, clusters, networks, network caches, …
Broker Broker
Connect
Network
Collective(App)
App
Resource
Connect
Fabric
Collective(Generic)
Example: Access Grid
Being built in KU since 2002KU was part of SCGlobal in SC2003
Being explored by many AIT, NECTEC, KMITNB
PurposeBuilding fast research collaborationTechnical Training
6 new sites this year
Network: THAISARN
Network:UNINET
•• OCOC--3 Backbone3 Backbone
•• Tentatively be upgraded Tentatively be upgraded to 1Gbps in the near to 1Gbps in the near futurefuture
Current connectivity
UNINET
ISP
NIX1 Gbps
THAISARN
IIR100 mbps200 mbps
1 Gbps
NII
Internet2APAN
Initiated future connectivity: ThaiREN……..
UNINET
RENEX
THAISARN
APAN Internet2FundingMICT (CAT)
DWDM Ring(1-10 Gbps)
2. APAN Map - Links
Access PointExchange PointCurrent Status2004 (plan)
USA
Europe
Australia
Indonesia
Vietnam
Sri Lanka
Korea
Thailand
Malaysia
Singapore
Taiwan
Russia
Philippines
China
Hong Kong
Japan
New APAN Map - Clusters
TWHK
Russia
South Asia Net
Central Asia Net
China
PH
AU
MYSG
CN
KR
Oceania Net
South East Asia Net
North Asia Net
CentralAsia
WestAsia
LK
SouthAsia Net
JP
TH
Emerging Project/Future Plan
(Initiated) CERN-Thailand S&T cooperationHigh Energy Physics+Data GridHR development in S&T
Thai e-science ProjectScientific application oriented
Thailand Centre of Excellence in Life ScienceThailand National Grid Project (TNGP)
CERN-THAILAND
Visit to Geneva by the Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhornin Dec 2003 (WSIS) with NSTDA, NECTEC, NSRCIn the process in initiating collaboration with CERN
Seeking Hi-level cooperation2 local meetings to start drafting program proposal
NECTEC/NSTDAChulalongkorn U. (CU)Mahidol U. (MU)National Synchrotron Research Center (NSRC)Chaingmai University (CMU)Kasetsart University (KU)
HEP activities2 visits to CERN by CU physicist: CMS data simulation SW setup
Thai e-science Project
New project funded in 2003 Application oriented project
Current membersComputational Chemistry Unit Cell, Department of Chemistry, Chulalongkorn University Department of Computer Engineering, ChulalongkornUniversity HPCNC, Kasetsart University
Contact:http://www.thai-escience.net/Dr. Prabhas Chongstitvatana (Associate Professor, Intelligent System Lab, Department of Computer Engineering, Chulalongkorn University)[email protected]
TCELS
Preclinical drug tests and stemcell research and developmentDevelop new genetically appropriate drugs on a molecular level by studying protein structures Focuses:
ThalassemiaDiabetesCancerHypertensionheart disease
Led by Mahidol UniversityOracle Corporation IBM Corporation
Thailand National Grid Project (TNGP)
Proposed project to be funded by Ministry of Information and Communication technology
About 5.5 Million US$ ( 3 year Project)3 main components
National Grid CommitteeNational Grid PlatformNational Excellence Center for Grid Computing
Project lead by Kasetsart University’s HPCNC
Partner Institutions
14 institutionsKasetsart UniversityChulalongkorn UniversityKing Mongkut’s Institute of Technology North BangkokKing Mongkut’s Institute of Technology LadkrabangKing Mongkut’s University of TechnologyMahidol UniversityChiangmai UniversityPrince of Songkla UniversityKhonKhaen UniversitySuranaree University of TechnologyAsian Institute of TechnologySilpakorn UniversityWalailak UniversityDept. of Meteorological, Ministry of ICT
2 new one in the next 2 years
Mahidol
Thailand National Grid Platform
CEGCSUT
KKU
CMU
WU
PSU
KMITNBKU
KMITLCU
KMUTT
AIT
Silpakorn
TMD
Gigabit NetworkUpgraded
32 CPU cluster
Teraflop Site
TNGP Project Status
The concept was approved by MICT’s minister. .Waiting for Cabinet budget approval and will start execution in about 3 months
NECTEC’s roles in GRIDCoordinating support and participation to the growing Computational Science communityBeing a part of Thailand grid community
Computing Grid platform IA64, 32 nodes 64 processors (before end of 2004)Athlon MP, 8 nodes 16 processors
Grid projectsDigital Archive (start)Distributed data broker (on going)HEP Grid support (initiated)MGH (initiated)
Information GridInformation integration across enterprisesMiddleware and application development
Trends for Thailand’s Grid development
Biotechnology, Nanotechnology, and Life Science have become Thailand’s national agenda and prioritiesGrid computing and computational science will be asked to help answering to real national problems [through sustainable process]Bring/Build more people (interdisciplinary scientists) to grid computing communityHPC scientific application Grid-enabled applicationMulti-disciplinary collaboration are the keys
Sources
Grid Computing and Thailand Research Community, PutchongUthayopas/KU, 18th APAN, Cairns, Austalia, July 2004APAN Infrastructures and Research Activities - KanchanaKanchanasut/AIT, May 2004ThaiGridANSCSEApGridPRAGMAAPANPNC
Thank You
Computing Research and Development DivisionNational Electronics and Computer Technology CenterNational Science and Technology Development Agency