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Perspectives of Grid Computing and e-Sciences in Taiwan

Perspectives of Grid Computing and e-Sciences in Taiwan. A.E. Chen NCU Jerry Chang NCHC Eric Yen ASCC April 28 2005. Outline. Grid Computing Development Taiwan UniGrid LCG/EGEE Involvement Grid/OSG Participation E-Science

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Perspectives of Grid Computing and e-Sciences in Taiwan

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  1. Perspectives of Grid Computing and e-Sciences in Taiwan A.E. Chen NCU Jerry Chang NCHC Eric Yen ASCC April 28 2005

  2. Outline • Grid Computing Development Taiwan UniGrid • LCG/EGEE Involvement • Grid/OSG Participation • E-Science • Collaboration and Services in Asia Pacific

  3. Unigrid Taiwan UniGrid is a platform to aggregate computing resources across geometrically distributed locations and administrative boundaries for coordinated computations for various applications

  4. Taiwan UniGrid Mission • Build computational grid • Develop grid software environment • Promote grid community • Grid applications

  5. Why Taiwan UniGrid? • Aggregating computing resources across geometrically distributed locations and administrative boundaries • Increasing resource utilization and sharing • Enabling the solutions for large-scale, difficult problems • Collaborative design and education

  6. Topology Academia Sinica National Tsing Hua University Taipei National Center for High-performance Computing Hsinchu National Taiwan University Chung Hua University Hualien Tunghai University Taichung National Dong Hwa University Providence University Tainan Hsing Kuo University

  7. Software Infrastructure • OS: GNU/Linux • Distribution: Debian, RedHat, Fedora • Compiler: GNU GCC • C Library: glibc 2.3 • Grid Middleware: Globus toolkit • Scheduler: Condor • Monitor: SCMS • MPI: MPICH-G2

  8. Current Status • Grid Portal • Web-based job submission • Real time monitoring • Broker allocates computing resource • Inter-cluster parallel computation

  9. Project Webpage • http://unigrid.nchc.org.tw/

  10. System Monitoring Webpage • http://unigrid.nchc.org.tw/scmsweb/

  11. Project Forum • http://pccluster.nchc.org.tw/unigrid/

  12. Grid Computing Development • International Networking is essential to Grid • Started by LCG from 2002 • Research Oriented • Facility Computing • Industrial Program • International Collaboration & Outreach • Toward e-Science • Expedite National Grid Organization/Program

  13. International Networking of Taiwan

  14. SINICA NCU NTU NCTU Taipei NTHU Hsinchu NDHU NCHU NCNU Taichung Eastern Broadband (10G) CCU ChunghwaTelecom (10G) Tainan Chunghwa Telecom (5 G) NCKU Dual circuits from two vendors form the physical backbone Core nodes NSYSU TWAREN Topology

  15. Research Oriented Grid Applications • HPC over Grid (AS) • High Energy Physics: ATLAS, CMS, CDF, Belle (NTU, NCU, AS) • Bioinformatics: CRASA, mpiBLAST-g2 (AS, YMU) • Digital Archives: DataGrid, • Atmospheric Science (NTU, NCU, TNU, AS) • Biodiversity Informatics (AS, NTU, NMNS, etc), GBIF • HealthGrid (TMU, AS) • Geospatial Information Infrastructure (AS) • Earthquake Data Center (AS) • Earth Science? (NCU, AS)

  16. Facility Computing Oriented • Access Grid (NCHC & AS) • Tele-Science (NCHC) • Sensor Grid (NCHC) • Eco-Grid (prototyping by NCHC) • National Land Use Monitoring & Analysis • Structure Monitoring of Buildings for Earthquake Risk • Flood Forecasting & Monitoring • SARS Grid • 3D Imaging of Neural Structure of Fruit Fries

  17. LCG/EGEE Deployment Milestone • Staffs Stationed at CERN: Sept 2002 • LCG-0 deployed: March 19, 2003 • EDG testbed deployed: March, 2003 • ASGCCA approved: June 12th, 2003 • LCG-2 deployed: Feb 2, 2004 • GOC operational in Taiwan: Apr 2, 2004 • GGUS operation in Taiwan: May 2, 2004 • Mass Storage Service Installed: July 15, 2004 • Regional Operation Center Services: Jan, 2005 • EGEE Testbed Installed: Mar, 2004 • Service Challenge: Apr, 2004

  18. Contributions of Taiwan in LCG/EGEE • Collaborate ATLAS & CMS Teams in Taiwan • Acting as Tier-1 and Tier-2 Site • LCG/EGEE • Production CA Services • LCG Core Site • 2nd Grid Operation Center (GOC) • 2nd Global Grid User Support (GGUS) Center • Participate LCG Technology Development • Data Management • Grid Technology • Certification & Testing • Application Software • ARDA • 3D (Distributed Deployment of Database) • Operation and Management

  19. EGEE Participation • Joined EGEE as a non-funded member from 2004 • NA3: Training and Induction • NA4: Application • HealthGrid • Diligent • SA1: Support and Operation Management • CIC/ROC • gLite Testbed

  20. Grid/OSG Collaboration • Becoming a formal Grid3 site in July 2004 • For CMS: NTU • For Grid3 Regional Center and General Support: ASCC • Grid3/OSG Testbed • Grid3/OSG Deployment • Operation and Management • Interoperation

  21. Industrial Program • NSC-Quanta Collaboration • To help Quanta Blade System have best performance for HPC and Grid Computing • Quanta is the largest Notebook manufacturer in the world • Participants: AS, NTU, NCTS, NTHU, NCHC • Scientific Research Disciplines: Material Science, Nano-Technology, Computational Chemistry, Bioinformatics, Engineering, etc. • Performance Tuning, Grid Benchmarking

  22. Education and Outreach • Encourage more research groups joining grid computing research and application development • Host grid technology and application workshops and related tutorials in Taiwan • About 400 attendants in the past 6 events since May, 2004 • Will host similar events for Asian countries in cooperation with EGEE NA2

  23. International Collaborations • APGrid • APAN • LCG/EGEE • Grid3/OSG • GGF • Globus • PNC/ECAI • PRAGMA

  24. Digital Archive Grid Service Architecture Digital Archive portal / Applications Client Metadata Content Management Geospatial Information System Metadata & Geospatial Reference OGSA OGSI GT 3.X Grid Services LCG 2 EDG Replica Location Service File Service LCG2 Data Providers Storage Abstraction File Systems GridFTP Archives DBs

  25. BioInformatics Technology and Services (BITS) • Objective • Providing bioinformatics computing services and infrastructures for the National Research Program for Genomic Medicine (NRPGM) • Milestones SMD Online Bioportal Online 2002 2003 2004 2005 ~ Sep. July July BITS team establishment AS BioCluster AS BioPortal AS Campus BioGrid Toward National BioGrid CRASA released Next Generation Bioportal – The Implementation Phase Oracle Service Online Biocluster Online

  26. The Next Generation Bioportal and Campus BioGrid • Core technology • Java and XML • Web/Grid Services • Advantages • Secure Environment and Single-Sign-On • Easy-to-deployed workflow container • Modular and reusable analysis tool packages • Producer-Consumer model of resource sharing • Collaborators • Dr. Jan-Ming Ho (IIS, AS) • Dr. Wen-Chang Lin (IBMS, AS) • Dr. Chen-Hsin Chen (ISS, AS) • Dr. Y. C. Yang (Y. M. Univ.)

  27. Deployment of SRB for Digital Archives Gigabit Router KVM Switch UNIX server 10TB Disk Array 3KVA UPS

  28. Deployment of SRB for Atmospheric DataBank System Architecture DoDS SRB MCat LAS MCat NTU DoDS Server MCat MCat-Aulixiry LAS (perl+Java) NCU SRB Client DoDS Client NTHU MCat-Aul ASCC

  29. Fostering Grid Computing in Asia • Coordinate LCG Community for better support and cooperation • Education: Tutorial Program at least once a year • Hosting LCG Asia Workshop and ISGC every year • Extending Grid Community • Facilitate the Formation of Application Driven Community • System installation, management and consultant service

  30. e-Science Services of Taiwan • Infrastructure Development • Grid System Deployment • Technology Development • Application Development • Cross Disciplines Contents Integration • Grid Operation and Management • Education and Training • User Support • LCG/EGEE CA Services

  31. Involved Organizations

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