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Updates on Grid Activities in the Philippines Peter Antonio Banzon ASTI DOST 9 March 2010 03/08/10 1

About ASTI • ICT and microelectronics R&D agency under the Philippines' Department of Science and Technology • Manages and Operates PREGINET and PSCIGRID 03/08/10 2

Philippine eScience Grid • Three year program fully funded by DOST – Establish a national grid infrastructure in the Philippines that will enable collaborative research among local educational and research institutes – Provide easy access to HPC resources and applications for Life and Physical sciences 03/08/10 3

Why Physical Science? 03/08/10 4

Why Life science? More than 7,100 islands fall within the borders of the Philippines hotspot, identified as one of the world’s biologically richest countries. The country is one of the few nations that is, in its entirety, both a hotspot and a megadiversity country, placing it among the top priority hotspots for global conservation. 03/08/10 5

ASTI HPC Resources • Compute – 39 nodes, 312 cores, 2.5 TFLOPS (6 more nodes soon) – 8 FPGA accelerators • Storage – 14 TB 03/08/10 6

Current Status • Current local partners – ADMU – UP CSRC – PAGASA 03/08/10 7

Compute Clusters • Banyuhay – The Bioinformatics Cluster • Unos – The Meteorology Cluster • Dalubhasaan – The Cluster Sandbox • Buhawi – The General-Purpose Cluster (EGEE certified production cluster) • Liknayan – The EUAsiaGrid and EGEE Collaboration Cluster (EGEE certified production cluster) 03/08/10 8

Middleware and Applications • Installed Applications Cluster Middleware: • • Bioinformatics (BioRoll and ROCKS 5.2.2 Progeniq BioBoost) Grid Middleware: • • Seismology (SPECFEM3D gLite Globe) • Meteorology (WRF , MM5, RegCM) • Oceanography (SeaDAS) 03/08/10 9

Bioinformatics Applications BioRoll HMMer Biopython Phylip Mr. Bayes ClustalW Fasta NCBI BLAST T_Co fg ee Glimmer MpiBLAST Emboss Progeniq BioBoost Hardware- accelerated versions of: Smith-Waterman ClustalW 03/08/10 10 HMMer

Other Resources Philippine Bio-Mirror Philippine S*Star Mirror (http://s-star.asti.dost.gov.ph) 03/08/10 11

Collaborations Current Users • UP Marine Science Institute • (Fish Larval Dispersal Model for the Bohol Sea) • PAGASA – Forecasting • UPLB Biotech (Project on Data Warehousing for Drug Discovery) Future Users • Nimbus, Phivolcs • PAGASA – Climatology • UP National Institute of Physics 03/08/10 12

International Linkages Contributing Member, EUAsiaGrid Institutional Member, Pacific Rim and Grid Middleware Assembly 03/08/10 13

Pscigrid Website www.pscigrid.gov.ph 03/08/10 14

Training Activities • Conducted the Phil. Grid Computing 2009 Forum and Training-Workshop on 17-18 Nov 2009. Participants from: UP-MSI, UPLB-BIOTECH, PAGASA, UP-NIP, UP-Math Dept., UPM-NTHC, DLSU, IRRI 03/08/10 15

Looking forward Launching of the Philippine e-Science Grid (April • 2010) Launching of ASTI's 3D Visualization Facility • (April 2010) Acquire additional 6 computing nodes and 12 TB • of storage space (2010) Resource Virtualization (Q1 2010) • Develop more FPGA applications • Install more grid based applications • Continue to advocate and promote grid • technology to local universities and research communities 03/08/10 16

Thank You 03/08/10 17