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
Outlines Thailand’s status and activities Community and Collaboration Grid Application Network 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 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
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
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 8 th ANSCSE, 21-23 July, 2004 287 participants 150 presentations
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
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
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
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
Met Data Broker in Grid Architecture Discipline-Specific Data Grid Application App Coherency control, replica selection, task Collective management, virtual data catalog, virtual data ( App) Broker Broker code catalog, … Collective Replica catalog, replica management, co- ( Generic) allocation, certificate authorities, metadata catalogs, Access to data, access to computers, access to Resource network performance data, … Connect Communication, service discovery (DNS), Connect authentication, authorization, delegation Storage systems, clusters, networks, network Fabric Network caches, …
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
Network: THAISARN
Network:UNINET • OC • OC- -3 Backbone 3 Backbone • Tentatively be upgraded • Tentatively be upgraded to 1Gbps in the near to 1Gbps in the near future future
Current connectivity 200 mbps IIR 100 mbps ISP THAISARN 1 Gbps UNINET NII NIX 1 Gbps Internet2 APAN
Initiated future connectivity: ThaiREN …….. APAN Internet2 Funding MICT (CAT) DWDM Ring RENEX (1-10 Gbps) UNINET THAISARN
2. APAN Map - Links Russia � J apan Europe Korea � USA � China � Taiwan Hong Kong � � � � Philippines Thailand Vietnam Malaysia � � Sri Lanka � Singapore Indonesia � Access Point Exchange Point Current Status � Australia 2004 (plan)
New APAN Map - Clusters Russia � � J P KR Central Central � Asia Asia Net CN China North Asia Net TW West South Asia Net HK Asia South TH PH Asia Net MY South East � � LK SG Asia Net Oceania Net � AU
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)
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
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
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
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
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
CMU Thailand National Grid Platform AIT KMITNB KKU KU CEGC SUT TMD Mahidol KMITL CU KMUTT Teraflop Site Silpakorn 32 CPU cluster Gigabit Network Upgraded WU PSU
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
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
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
Sources Grid Computing and Thailand Research Community, Putchong Uthayopas/KU, 18 th APAN, Cairns, Austalia, July 2004 APAN Infrastructures and Research Activities - Kanchana Kanchanasut/AIT, May 2004 ThaiGrid ANSCSE ApGrid PRAGMA APAN PNC
Thank You Computing Research and Development Division National Electronics and Computer Technology Center National Science and Technology Development Agency
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