Thailand Grid and Networking: Infrastructure and Activities
Putchong UthayopasDirectorHigh Performance Computing and Networking CenterKasetsart University, Bangkok, Thailand
Vice Chairman Thailand National Grid CommitteeMinistry of Information and Communication [email protected]
http://www.ntl.nectec.or.th/internet/
Current Internet in Thailand
6 million users 18 Commercial ISP 2 Research and Education Networks International Bandwidth 2238.87 Mbps National Exchanges 17964.60 Mbps Total Domestic Traffic 8648.5 Gb/day
Source
Current Research and Education Networks
UNINETUNINET 27 state own universities27 state own universities 2 colleges2 colleges 5 private universities5 private universities 2 government institutes2 government institutes
THAISARNTHAISARN 10 state own universities10 state own universities 1 private universities1 private universities 1 research institute1 research institute 3 government institutes3 government institutes
THAISARN
UNINET• OC-3 BackboneOC-3 Backbone
• Tentatively be upgraded Tentatively be upgraded to 1Gbps in the near to 1Gbps in the near futurefuture
Current connectivity
UNINET
ISP
NIX
1 Gbps
1 Gbps
THAISARN
IIR100 mbps200 mbps
APAN
Internet2
NII
ThaiREN: Next Generation connectivity
UNINET
RENEX
THAISARN
APAN Internet2
……..
DWDM Ring(1-10 Gbps)
FundingMICT (CAT)
Activities
Grid
IPV6
E-science Application
Network layer
Middleware Layer
Application Layer
IP V6 Effort
Working Group PSU, KU, AIT, KKU, RBU,CAT
Activities Building IPV6 Test bed
Tunneling Partly Native IPV6 now (PSU, KKU, RBU, CAT)
Workshop and technology Transfer Direction
Extending the test bed Promote adoption and application of IP V6 in Thailand
Thai e-science Project
New project funded in 2003 Application oriented project
Current members Computational Chemistry Unit Cell, Department of Che
mistry, Chulalongkorn University Department of Computer Engineering, Chulalongkorn U
niversity HPCNC, Kasetsart University
Contact:http://www.thai-escience.net/ Dr. Prabhas Chongstitvatana (Associate Professor, Intel
ligent System Lab, Department of Computer Engineering, Chulalongkorn University)[email protected]
ThaiGrid
A partnership project to explore grid computing technology and application in Thailand. Project started since December 2000
Link: http://www.thaigrid.net Currently funded by
National Research Council of Thailand (NRCT) Commission on Higher Education, Ministry of Education
Contact Putchong Uthayopas, KU ([email protected]) Vara Varavidthaya, KMITNB ([email protected])
Members 8 universities
Kasetsart University King Mongkut’s Institute of Technology North Bangkok Suranaree University of Technology Asian Institute of Technology Chulalongkorn University Walailak University Chiangmai University KMUTT
1 Government Agency National Electronics and Computing Technology
Goal
Create a grid computing infrastructure for Thai researchers
Stimulate the deployment of Grid Computing Technology
Build a collaborative Research Network among Thai researchers
Act as a focal point for international grid collaboration
ThaiGrid System
KU
AIT
KMITNB
SUT
PALM
OPTIMA CAMETA
GASS
AMATA
HPCNC
OBSERVER MAEKA WARINE
ThaiGrid
CU
NECTEC
WU
CMU
KMUTT
Resources (2003- First Part of 2004) KU
MAEKA 32 nodes 64 CPU dual processors
AMD Opteron 1.4Ghz, 3GB Mem 80Gb HDD, Gigabit EthernetGASS
6 nodes 12 CPU AMD Athlon MP1800+, 1GB RAM 80 GB HDD
Gigabit Ethernet WARINE
16 nodes Celeron 2Ghz , 512 Mb RAM 80GB HDD, Fast Ethernet
AMATA
14 nodes AMD 1GHZ 512 MB 40GB Fast Ethernet Myrinet (6 nodes)
HPCNC 1 nodes ATHLON 1800+ , 512 MB
RAM, 80GB HDD OBSERVER
1 nodes Athlon 1800+ 512 MB RAM, 80 GB HDD
KMITNB PALM
16 nodes Pentium 4 2GHz 512 MB RAM, Fast Ethernet
Enqueue 9 nodes 18 CPU Dual
AMD 2.2GHz, 1GB RAM 32GFLOPs,2G Myrinet
AIT OPTIMA
8 nodes Athlon XP1800+ Fast Ethernet
SUT CAMETA
16 nodes Athlon XP1800+ Fast Ethernet
Total of 166 processors on ThaiGrid
ThaiGrid core Network
THAISARN2 Mbps link supported by NECTEC
NECTEC- KMITNB NECTEC- SUT
NECTEC-KU ATM 155Mbps UNINET
KU-UNINET 155 MbpsAIT-UNINET 155Mbps
UNINET-Internet 2 45Mbps
Concept
Advanced network
Grid
DrugDesign
Life Science
AnimationFinancialAnalysis
SimulationModeling
USERS
Example Application
Computational Fluid Dynamics Simulation
SchedulingPGA Pack
Computational ChemistryGAMESS(General Atomic and Molecular
Electronic Structure System) Future
Life Science, Multimedia
DRUG DESIGN GRID
Using grid technology to pull HPC resources together to support scientist mission CheminformaticsDrug design
Partnership projectHPCNC/KU, LCAC/KU IBM
Drug Design Grid AMATA 14 nodes Athlon
1Ghz Warine 16 nodes Celeron
2.0Ghz GASS 6 nodes 12
processors Athlon MP1800+
Maeka 16 nodes 32 processors Opteron system
Total of 74 processors are involved
AMATA
KU Gigabit Campus Network
Warine GASS Maeka
Globus 2.4
SQMS SQMS SQMS SQMS
SQMSG
SCE Portal
SCMSWeb
THAILAND NATIONAL GRID PROJECT
Thailand National Grid Project (TNGP)
Proposed project funded by Ministry of Information and Communication technologyAbout 5.5 Million US$ ( 3 year Project)
3 main componentsNational Grid CommitteeNational Excellence Center for Grid
ComputingNational Grid Platform
Partner Institutions 16 institutions
Kasetsart University Chulalongkorn University King Mongkut’s Institute of Technology North Bangkok King Mongkut’s Institute of Technology Ladkrabang King Mongkut’s University of Technology Mahidol University Chiangmai University Prince of Songkla University KhonKhaen University Suranaree University of Technology Asian Institute of Technology Silpakorn University Walailak University Dept. of Metrological, Ministry of ICT 2 new one in the next 2 years
National Grid Committee A committee will be setup to oversee the grid development
Chair: Dr. Surapong Suebwonglee (Minister of ICT) Vice Chair: Dr. Putchong Uthayopas (KU) Secretary : Dr. Vara Varavidthaya (KMITNB) Consists of representative from participant institutes Advisory Committees
Dr. Jack Dongarra (UTK) Dr. Thomas Sterling (NASA JPL) Dr. Satoshi Matsuoka (TITECH) Dr. Satoshi Sekiguchi (AIST) Prof. Yuen Poovarawan (KU, Thailand)
Mission Oversee the direction of Thailand Grid Computing Development Encourage and stimulate grid computing development in
Research Education Commercial
National Excellence Center on Grid Computing Located at Kasetsart University Mission
Conduct grid research projectsOversee the Grid deploymentEducation, technology transfer Industry support
National Grid Platform
Startup platform for nation wide grid deployment
Concept A 32 processors Beowulf clusters (16 systems)
will be built for each partner institutes Network upgrading to Gigabit in Bangkok and
some upgrading in upcountry to increase bandwidth
Building a Terascale Cluster as a center for large computation shared by all Thai scientist
Current Status
The concept has been approved by ICT minister. .
Official committee setup is done Waiting for Budget approval and will start
execution in about 3 months
Conclusion
Thailand is in a big transitionMore active in many area of science and
technology : Life science, Nano TechnologyBetter national network infrastructure in the
near futureFuel by grid computing and many HPC
application Look forward to being more active partner
in global collaboration
The end
Software Local Resources Management
Condor SQMS (KU) SGE (Planned)
Middleware Globus 2.4
Grid Level Resource Management SCEGrid Scheduler (KU)
Data Grid Gfarm Data Grid (AIST)
Grid Programming Environment Ninf GridRPC (AIST) MPICH-G2
Tools SCMSweb Monitoring (KU)
Tools Development
OpenSCE: Cluster software Tools and Middleware (KU) MPview – MPI program visualization MPITH – Quick and simple MPI runtime for cluster
and grid SQMS – Batch scheduler for cluster SCMS/ SCMSWEB cluster management tool
ThaiGrid Portal (KMITNB) HypersimGrid Simulator for Grid design (KU)
Working Group
Organization
Chair
Committee
Grid Infrastructure and Middleware
Group
Simulation Group
Computational Chemistry
Group
CFDGroup
Remote SensingGroup
EvolutionaryComp. Group
FEMGroup
Activities
Building ThaiGrid Testbed Research and Technology Transfer International Collaboration
ApGridPRAGMAAPAN Grid Working Group
NECTECComputing
System
KUComputing
System
KMITNBComputing
System
SUTComputing
System
AITComputing
System
LRM LRM LRM LRM LRM
ThaiGrid Software Architecture
Grid Middleware (Globus 2.4)
Grid Resources Manager (SCEGrid)
Grid RPC(ninf)
Grid Tools
Grid Applications
LRM=Local Resources Manager
Grid Monitoring
Clean Room Project Member: KU, SUT Goal: study clean room using CFD
Three-Dimensional Turbulence Problem Heat & Mass Transfer
Using: Finite volume, Multigrid, Parallel computing
Solution: Grid is used to Provided uniform security mechanism across the cluster
computing environment Provide mechanism for large scale data access
Tools Globus , MPICH Grid RPC (ninf, netsolve) Gfarm data grid
Software Structure
Network
•Front End•Sequential Solver•Visualization
•Front End•Sequential Solver•Visualization
Parallel CFDSolver
Parallel CFDSolver
Simulation
Many simulation and optimization problem can utilized grid and cluster well
Parametric applications is perfect for grid Simulation job on the ThaiGrid
Genetic algorithm for optimization problem using PGApack
Grid simulation (HyperGridSim)
Computational Chemistry
Laboratory for Computational and Applied Chemistry (LCAC), KU.
Research Zeolite Chemistry & Catalysis Surface Structure & Reactivity
of Advanced Materials Drug Design for HIV, Avian Flu
Technology Transfer
First Cluster Computing Workshop, KU (30)
Second Cluster Workshop, KKU (25) Third Cluster Workshop, KU (25) First Drug Design Workshop, KU (60) First Windows Cluster Workshop, KU (12) 152 people being trained
Research and Development
First Drug Design Grid Solution finished SCE roll Finished and will be released soon by
SDSC as part of NPACI Rocks 3.2.0 Part of KU(HPCNC)/SDSC collaboration under
PRAGMA consortium HPCNC researchers is now working with AIST
Grid Research Center in building Gridftp and LUFS support into Gfarm grid File systems
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