Progress in China National Grid

1. Progress in China National Grid Qian Depei Xian Jiaotong University Email: depeiq@xjtu.edu.cn Sanya, Hainan, China Dec. 26, 2002

2. Outline • Overview of China National Grid Project • Major tasks of the project • The research and development supported • Guideline and strategies of the project • Time table • About China Grid Forum • International cooperation

3. Overview of China National Grid • Recent effort of 863 research in HPCE and grids • 863-306 supported National HPCE from 1999 to 2000 • Key project (more than 50 million) • Outcome • Dawning 3000 super server • 9 HPCE sites on Cernet and CSTNet, forming the environment • about computing & data intensive applications • System software for National HPCE

4. A key project supported by the National High-Tech R&D Program (the 863 program), continuing effort to the HPCE project A 4-year effort 100 million fund from Chinese government (MOST) Two to three times more associated funds from local governments, application organizations, and industry Overview of China National Grid

5. Overview of China National Grid • Enabling resource sharing and cooperative works under the Internet environment • Providing the most powerful computing capability to research • Exploring new models and patterns of applications and services in the Internet • Promote China’s industry in high performance computers and grids • Training of talent people in grid

6. Major tasks of the project • Develop a testbed for the new information infrastructure—China National Grid (CNGrid) • About 11 grid sites across the country • Interconnected by available networks • Develop a 4TFlops high performance computer to equip grid sites • Develop a grid software to support grid applications and grid operation and management • Develop several application grids • Productive systems • Demonstrate the future grid applications

7. China National Grid Science Environment Manufacture Service Apps Grid Development Environment Use Environment Grid Software Grid System Software HPC Database Data Apps Grid Resources Internet

8. The research and development supported • 19 projects are supported in the first round of the project • The strategic and integration technology study • The grid sites construction (8 sites) • Grid software development (1 team) • Application grids development (7 teams) • High performance computer development (2 teams)

9. The grid sites construction • CAS Network Centers (Beijing) • Main site • Shanghai Supercomputing Center (Shanghai) • Main site • Tsinghua University (Beijing) • Applied Physics Institute (beijing) • University of China Science and Technology (Hefei, Anhui) • Xi’an Jiaotong University (Xi’an, Shaanxi) • NUDT (Changsha) • Hong Kong University (Hongkong)

10. The grid sites construction • Major sites • >1 Tflops • Equipped with the machine developed by the project • Ordinary sites • >100GFlops • Provided by the site organizations

11. Beijing Xi’an Nanjing Chengdu Wuhan Shanghai Hong Kong Hefei Changsha Grid Sites across China

12. Grid software development • Grid system software • Interfacing to heterogeneous systems • Basic resource management • Communication • Grid application development environment • Remote debugging • Performance tuning • Grid user environment • Grid browser • GSML

13. Computing Data Transaction Combination Security services Authentication Single log-in Encryption Enforced access Authorization Job Services Reservation Description Submission Query Resources Monitoring Accounting Event query Development Interaction debugging GridFTP Date services Access Process Copy Transmission Application Env. GSML Grid community Grid basic services communication, resource description, location, discovery, configuration, reservation, file systems Grid resources (machine, Software, Instruments, equipment, databases, file systems, applications)

14. Application grids development • Selected from four areas • Resource and Environment • Research • Services • Manufacturing

15. Meteorology Grid Manufacturing Grid  Bioinfo Grid Geology Grid Logical Layer Grid System Software Grid Node Grid Node Grid Node   Physical Layer Gigabit IP Network Application Grids

16. Geological Survey Grid • Undertaken by China National Geologic Survey Bureau • Nation-wide productive grid • Data exchange and sharing • Resource evaluation services • Shorten the evaluation time from 3 years to 3 months • Delivering achievements in • North China ground water resources evaluation • Mineral resources evaluation

17. Forest Resources Grid • Undertaken by the Institute of Forest Resources Information • Monitoring the status of forests in China • Processing remote sensing information • Evaluation of the process of turning the farmland back to forests

18. Meteorological Service Grid • Undertaken by China National Meteorological Center • Three sites in Beijing, Guangdong, and Hunan, forming a grid • Sharing of computing resources • Provide new weather forecast services (time and location-specific)

19. Scientific Data Grid • Undertaken by the Network & Information Center of CAS • Scientific databases • Scientific computing • Virtual astronomical observatory

20. Bio-informatics Grid • Undertaken by Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica CAS and Genomics & Bioinformatics Institute CAS • Compound screening for new drug discovery • Genome sequencing • Integrated datawarehousing for bio-information

21. Manufacturing Grid • Undertaken by China Second Aeronautics Industry Corp. • Distributed design, simulation, and manufacturing • CAD software sharing • Data exchange and sharing • Computing resource sharing

22. Guidelines and strategies of the project • Application driven • The most important driving force • Technological jumping • patents • standards

23. Guidelines and strategies of the project (con.) • Multilateral cooperation • Funds from • 863 program • Local government • Application organizations • Industry • Cooperation of • Research teams • Application teams • Management people • Focus on grid • Complementary research efforts • Integration into Grid testbed

24. Time table • Grid software • Sept. 2003 beta version • Nov. 2004 first release • Oct. 2005 second release • High performance computers • By June 2004 • Grid testbed • Oct. 2003 trial operation • Dec. 2004 normal operation • Grid testbed • Dec. 2004 trial operation • June 2005 productive operation

25. China Grid Forum • Promote research and development • Exchange experiences • Propose standards • Set up a bridge between academic community and industry

26. 中国网格论坛 • 中国科技界、企业界和用户从事网格技术活动的园地 • 向全国各界开放 • 宗旨 • 推动国内和国际（GGF, W3C, IETF）的网格技术标准 • 促进网格技术在中国的产业化 • 总结网格技术在中国的应用经验与成功案例 • 加强科技界、企业界、用户、政府的交流和科学普及 • 863重大专项倡议，2002年10月在上海启动 • www.chinagridforum.cn www.grid.org.cn

27. International cooperation • IBM and Platform have participated the project • Grid software • Application grid • Joint research is encouraged • China international cooperation projects • EU sixth framework • UK e-Science

28. International cooperation (con.) • Interconnection with other grids • E-Science • Sharing of resources • Computing power • Application software • Software tools • Cooperation in proposing standards • Personnel exchange • Workshops

29. Web site of the project • http://www.grid.org.cn

30. Thank you!