SLIDE 1 Current Status of Thailand’s Grid Community and Grid Development Activities
Piyawut Srichaikul Computing Research and Development Division National Electronics and Computer Technology Center National Science and Technology Development Agency I SGC2004 27-28 July 2004 ASCC, Taiwan
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Outlines
Thailand’s status and activities
Community and Collaboration Grid Application Network Connectivity
Emerging project/ Future Plans NECTEC’s roles
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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 researchers Create a grid computing infrastructure for Thai researchers Stimulate the deployment of Grid Computing Technology Act 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
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ThaiGrid Members
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 National Electronics and Computing Technology
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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, 2004 287 participants 150 presentations
SLIDE 6 International Grid Collaboration
APAN
Participation in Grid working group E-Science Natural Resource
ApGrid project
Asia Pacific Grid technology test bed APAG project International Access grid Test bed
PRAGMA Project
Grid application test bed GAMESS over the grid NPACI Rocks / SCE Gfarm
Pacific Neighborhood Consortium
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Applications being developed
Computational Fluid Dynamics Simulation
Scheduling, Optimization
Computational Chemistry
Virtual Drug Screening, Cheminformatics
Distributed data broker
Extended NARC’s Met broker
Future
Life Science, Multimedia, Financial Engineering
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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)
Partners
HPCNC/KU, LCAC/KU IBM
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Example: Met Data Broker
Agriculture applications: prediction & planning Data sources: Files, SQL databases Data organization:
by station by element by location by each resolution (hourly, daily)
Partner: NECTEC-NARC-HAI I
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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)
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Example: Access Grid
Being built in KU since 2002
KU was part of SCGlobal in SC2003
Being explored by many
AIT, NECTEC, KMITNB
Purpose
Building fast research collaboration Technical Training
6 new sites this year
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Network: THAISARN
SLIDE 14 Network:UNINET
OC-
3 Backbone
Tentatively be upgraded to 1Gbps in the near to 1Gbps in the near future future
SLIDE 15 Current connectivity
UNINET ISP NIX
1 Gbps
THAISARN IIR
100 mbps 200 mbps 1 Gbps
NII Internet2 APAN
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Initiated future connectivity: ThaiREN
……..
UNINET RENEX THAISARN
APAN Internet2
Funding MICT (CAT)
DWDM Ring (1-10 Gbps)
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Access Point Exchange Point Current Status 2004 (plan)
USA Europe
Australia
Vietnam
Thailand Malaysia Singapore
Taiwan
Philippines China Hong Kong J apan
SLIDE 18 New APAN Map - Clusters
HK Russia South Asia Net
Central Asia Net
China
AU
MY SG CN KR
Oceania Net South East Asia Net North Asia Net Central Asia West Asia
South Asia Net
J P TH
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Emerging Project/Future Plan
(I nitiated) CERN-Thailand S&T cooperation
High Energy Physics+ Data Grid HR development in S&T
Thai e-science Project
Scientific application oriented
Thailand Centre of Excellence in Life Science Thailand National Grid Project (TNGP)
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CERN-THAILAND
Visit to Geneva by the Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn in Dec 2003 (WSI S) with NSTDA, NECTEC, NSRC I n the process in initiating collaboration with CERN
Seeking Hi-level cooperation 2 local meetings to start drafting program proposal NECTEC/NSTDA Chulalongkorn U. (CU) Mahidol U. (MU) National Synchrotron Research Center (NSRC) Chaingmai University (CMU) Kasetsart University (KU)
HEP activities
2 visits to CERN by CU physicist: CMS data simulation SW setup
SLIDE 21 Thai e-science Project
New project funded in 2003
Application oriented project
Current members
Computational Chemistry Unit Cell, Department of Chemistry, Chulalongkorn University Department of Computer Engineering, Chulalongkorn University HPCNC, Kasetsart University
Contact:http:/ / www.thai-escience.net/
- Dr. Prabhas Chongstitvatana (Associate Professor, Intelligent
System Lab, Department of Computer Engineering, Chulalongkorn University)prabhas.c@chula.ac.th
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TCELS
Preclinical drug tests and stemcell research and development Develop new genetically appropriate drugs on a molecular level by studying protein structures Focuses:
Thalassemia Diabetes Cancer Hypertension heart disease
Led by Mahidol University
Oracle Corporation IBM Corporation
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Thailand National Grid Project (TNGP)
Proposed project to be funded by Ministry of I nformation and Communication technology
About 5.5 Million US$ ( 3 year Project)
3 main components
National Grid Committee National Grid Platform National Excellence Center for Grid Computing
Project lead by Kasetsart University’s HPCNC
SLIDE 24 Partner Institutions
14 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 Meteorological, Ministry of ICT
2 new one in the next 2 years
SLIDE 25 Mahidol
Thailand National Grid Platform
CEGC SUT KKU CMU WU PSU KMITNB KU KMITL CU KMUTT AIT Silpakorn TMD
Gigabit Network Upgraded 32 CPU cluster Teraflop Site
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TNGP Project Status
The concept was approved by MI CT’s minister. . Waiting for Cabinet budget approval and will start execution in about 3 months
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NECTEC’s roles in GRID
Coordinating support and participation to the growing Computational Science community Being 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 projects Digital Archive (start) Distributed data broker (on going) HEP Grid support (initiated) MGH (initiated) Information Grid Information integration across enterprises Middleware and application development
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Trends for Thailand’s Grid development
Biotechnology, Nanotechnology, and Life Science have become Thailand’s national agenda and priorities Grid 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 community HPC scientific application Grid-enabled application Multi-disciplinary collaboration are the keys
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Sources
Grid Computing and Thailand Research Community, Putchong Uthayopas/KU, 18th APAN, Cairns, Austalia, July 2004 APAN Infrastructures and Research Activities - Kanchana Kanchanasut/AIT, May 2004 ThaiGrid ANSCSE ApGrid PRAGMA APAN PNC
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Thank You
Computing Research and Development Division National Electronics and Computer Technology Center National Science and Technology Development Agency
