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Thailand Grid and Networking: Infrastructure and Activities. Putchong Uthayopas Director High Performance Computing and Networking Center Kasetsart University, Bangkok, Thailand Vice Chairman Thailand National Grid Committee Ministry of Information and Communication Technology pu@ku.ac.th.
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Thailand Grid and Networking: Infrastructure and Activities Putchong Uthayopas Director High Performance Computing and Networking Center Kasetsart University, Bangkok, Thailand Vice Chairman Thailand National Grid Committee Ministry of Information and Communication Technology pu@ku.ac.th
Current Internet in Thailand • 6 million users • 18 Commercial ISP • 2 Research and Education Networks • International Bandwidth 2238.87 Mbps • National Exchanges 17964.60 Mbps • Total Domestic Traffic 8648.5 Gb/day Source http://www.ntl.nectec.or.th/internet/
Current Research and Education Networks • UNINET • 27 state own universities • 2 colleges • 5 private universities • 2 government institutes • THAISARN • 10 state own universities • 1 private universities • 1 research institute • 3 government institutes
UNINET • OC-3 Backbone • Tentatively be upgraded to 1Gbps in the near future
Current connectivity IIR 200 mbps 100 mbps ISP THAISARN 1 Gbps UNINET NIX NII 1 Gbps Internet2 APAN
ThaiREN: Next Generation connectivity …….. APAN Internet2 Funding MICT (CAT) RENEX DWDM Ring (1-10 Gbps) UNINET THAISARN
Activities E-science Application Application Layer Grid Middleware Layer IPV6 Network layer
IP V6 Effort • Working Group • PSU, KU, AIT, KKU, RBU,CAT • Activities • Building IPV6 Test bed • Tunneling • Partly Native IPV6 now (PSU, KKU, RBU, CAT) • Workshop and technology Transfer • Direction • Extending the test bed • Promote adoption and application of IP V6 in Thailand
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
ThaiGrid • A partnership project to explore grid computing technology and application in Thailand. Project started since December 2000 • Link: http://www.thaigrid.net • Currently funded by • National Research Council of Thailand (NRCT) • Commission on Higher Education, Ministry of Education • Contact • Putchong Uthayopas, KU (pu@ku.ac.th) • Vara Varavidthaya, KMITNB (vara@kmitnb.ac.th)
Members • 8 universities • 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 • 1 Government Agency • National Electronics and Computing Technology
Goal • Create a grid computing infrastructure for Thai researchers • Stimulate the deployment of Grid Computing Technology • Build a collaborative Research Network among Thai researchers • Act as a focal point for international grid collaboration
ThaiGrid System 2004 2003 CU NECTEC WU CMU KMUTT
Resources(2003- First Part of 2004) • KU • MAEKA • 32 nodes 64 CPU dual processors AMD Opteron 1.4Ghz, 3GB Mem 80Gb HDD, Gigabit EthernetGASS • 6 nodes 12 CPU AMD Athlon MP1800+, 1GB RAM 80 GB HDD • Gigabit Ethernet • WARINE • 16 nodes Celeron 2Ghz , 512 Mb RAM 80GB HDD, Fast Ethernet • AMATA • 14 nodes AMD 1GHZ 512 MB 40GB Fast Ethernet Myrinet (6 nodes) • HPCNC • 1 nodes ATHLON 1800+ , 512 MB RAM, 80GB HDD • OBSERVER • 1 nodes Athlon 1800+ 512 MB RAM, 80 GB HDD • KMITNB • PALM • 16 nodes Pentium 4 2GHz 512 MB RAM, Fast Ethernet • Enqueue • 9 nodes 18 CPU Dual AMD 2.2GHz, 1GB RAM 32GFLOPs,2G Myrinet • AIT • OPTIMA • 8 nodes Athlon XP1800+ • Fast Ethernet • SUT • CAMETA • 16 nodes Athlon XP1800+ • Fast Ethernet Total of 166 processors on ThaiGrid
ThaiGrid core Network • THAISARN • 2 Mbps link supported by NECTEC • NECTEC- KMITNB • NECTEC- SUT • NECTEC-KU ATM 155Mbps • UNINET • KU-UNINET 155 Mbps • AIT-UNINET 155Mbps • UNINET-Internet 2 45Mbps
Concept USERS Drug Design Life Science Simulation Modeling Financial Analysis Animation Grid Advanced network
Example Application • Computational Fluid Dynamics • Simulation • Scheduling • PGA Pack • Computational Chemistry • GAMESS(General Atomic and Molecular Electronic Structure System) • Future • Life Science, Multimedia
DRUG DESIGN GRID • Using grid technology to pull HPC resources together to support scientist mission • Cheminformatics • Drug design • Partnership project • HPCNC/KU, LCAC/KU • IBM
AMATA 14 nodes Athlon 1Ghz Warine 16 nodes Celeron 2.0Ghz GASS 6 nodes 12 processors Athlon MP1800+ Maeka 16 nodes 32 processors Opteron system Total of 74 processors are involved Drug Design Grid SCE Portal SQMSG SCMSWeb Globus 2.4 SQMS SQMS SQMS SQMS AMATA Warine GASS Maeka KU Gigabit Campus Network
Thailand National Grid Project (TNGP) • Proposed project funded by Ministry of Information and Communication technology • About 5.5 Million US$ ( 3 year Project) • 3 main components • National Grid Committee • National Excellence Center for Grid Computing • National Grid Platform
Partner Institutions • 16 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 Metrological, Ministry of ICT • 2 new one in the next 2 years
National Grid Committee • A committee will be setup to oversee the grid development • Chair: Dr. Surapong Suebwonglee (Minister of ICT) • Vice Chair: Dr. Putchong Uthayopas (KU) • Secretary : Dr. Vara Varavidthaya (KMITNB) • Consists of representative from participant institutes • Advisory Committees • Dr. Jack Dongarra (UTK) • Dr. Thomas Sterling (NASA JPL) • Dr. Satoshi Matsuoka (TITECH) • Dr. Satoshi Sekiguchi (AIST) • Prof. Yuen Poovarawan (KU, Thailand) • Mission • Oversee the direction of Thailand Grid Computing Development • Encourage and stimulate grid computing development in • Research • Education • Commercial
National Excellence Center on Grid Computing • Located at Kasetsart University • Mission • Conduct grid research projects • Oversee the Grid deployment • Education, technology transfer • Industry support
National Grid Platform • Startup platform for nation wide grid deployment • Concept • A 32 processors Beowulf clusters (16 systems) will be built for each partner institutes • Network upgrading to Gigabit in Bangkok and some upgrading in upcountry to increase bandwidth • Building a Terascale Cluster as a center for large computation shared by all Thai scientist
Current Status • The concept has been approved by ICT minister. . • Official committee setup is done • Waiting for Budget approval and will start execution in about 3 months
Conclusion • Thailand is in a big transition • More active in many area of science and technology : Life science, Nano Technology • Better national network infrastructure in the near future • Fuel by grid computing and many HPC application • Look forward to being more active partner in global collaboration
Software • Local Resources Management • Condor • SQMS (KU) • SGE (Planned) • Middleware • Globus 2.4 • Grid Level Resource Management • SCEGrid Scheduler (KU) • Data Grid • Gfarm Data Grid (AIST) • Grid Programming Environment • Ninf GridRPC (AIST) • MPICH-G2 • Tools • SCMSweb Monitoring (KU)
Tools Development • OpenSCE: Cluster software Tools and Middleware (KU) • MPview – MPI program visualization • MPITH – Quick and simple MPI runtime for cluster and grid • SQMS – Batch scheduler for cluster • SCMS/ SCMSWEB cluster management tool • ThaiGrid Portal (KMITNB) • HypersimGrid Simulator for Grid design (KU)
Organization Chair Committee Working Group Grid Infrastructure and Middleware Group Simulation Group Computational Chemistry Group CFD Group FEM Group Remote Sensing Group Evolutionary Comp. Group
Activities • Building ThaiGrid Testbed • Research and Technology Transfer • International Collaboration • ApGrid • PRAGMA • APAN Grid Working Group
ThaiGrid Software Architecture Grid Applications Grid Tools Grid Resources Manager (SCEGrid) Grid RPC (ninf) Grid Middleware (Globus 2.4) LRM LRM LRM LRM LRM NECTEC Computing System KU Computing System KMITNB Computing System SUT Computing System AIT Computing System LRM=Local Resources Manager
Clean Room Project • Member: KU, SUT • Goal: study clean room using CFD • Three-Dimensional Turbulence Problem • Heat & Mass Transfer • Using: • Finite volume, Multigrid, Parallel computing • Solution: Grid is used to • Provided uniform security mechanism across the cluster computing environment • Provide mechanism for large scale data access • Tools • Globus , MPICH • Grid RPC (ninf, netsolve) • Gfarm data grid
Software Structure Parallel CFD Solver • Front End • Sequential Solver • Visualization Network Parallel CFD Solver • Front End • Sequential Solver • Visualization
Simulation • Many simulation and optimization problem can utilized grid and cluster well • Parametric applications is perfect for grid • Simulation job on the ThaiGrid • Genetic algorithm for optimization problem using PGApack • Grid simulation (HyperGridSim)
Computational Chemistry • Laboratory for Computational and Applied Chemistry (LCAC), KU. • Research • Zeolite Chemistry & Catalysis • Surface Structure & Reactivity of Advanced Materials • Drug Design for HIV, Avian Flu
Technology Transfer • First Cluster Computing Workshop, KU (30) • Second Cluster Workshop, KKU (25) • Third Cluster Workshop, KU (25) • First Drug Design Workshop, KU (60) • First Windows Cluster Workshop, KU (12) • 152 people being trained
Research and Development • First Drug Design Grid Solution finished • SCE roll Finished and will be released soon by SDSC as part of NPACI Rocks 3.2.0 • Part of KU(HPCNC)/SDSC collaboration under PRAGMA consortium • HPCNC researchers is now working with AIST Grid Research Center in building Gridftp and LUFS support into Gfarm grid File systems