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E-Science Activities in Pakistan

Discover research areas, initiatives, events, and computing facilities at NCP, including HPC clusters, private cloud, and collaboration with CERN. Explore scientific workshops, research projects, and advanced computing for R&D.

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E-Science Activities in Pakistan

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  1. E-Science Activities in Pakistan Arshad Ahmad arshad.ahmad@ncp.edu.pk National Centre for Physics (NCP) Islamabad, Pakistan

  2. Outline • E-Science Activities at National Centre for Physics (NCP) – my host institute • Introduction of NCP • Research Areas/Disciplines of NCP • Departmental R&D activities • Events / Workshops • Computing Facilities at NCP • WLCG Tier-2 Site • Local Computing Cluster • Private Cloud • Certification Authority • E-Science Activities at Other Institutes in Pakistan • CIIT • GIKI • NUST • LUMS • Nationwide E-Infrastructure for R&D • National Education and Research Network ( PERN2) • Telemedicine over PERN • Future Projects

  3. Research Areas/Disciplines • National Centre for Physics (NCP) has been established to promote research in Physics and following applied disciplines in Pakistan: • Condensed Matter Physics • Particle Physics, Astrophysics & Cosmology • Fluid Mechanics & Plasma Physics • Atomic & Laser Physics, Nuclear Physics • Advanced Computing for Scientific Research • Mathematical Modelling and Simulation • Any newly emerging areas in Physics.

  4. Departmental Activities at NCP (1/3) • Experimental High Energy Physics (EHEP) • Pakistan has Collaboration with CERN, since 1994. Became Associate Member of CERN, in 2015. • Members of the EHEP group are strongly contributing to the analysis of LHC data and have been involved in cutting edge research such as the discovery of Higgs like particle with the CMS detector. • Involved in various Technical & Research Projects…. • RPC Testing/commissioning • GEM Detectors R&D • Silicon Tracker • Development of Data Control System (DCS) • Testing of Data Quality & Monitoring modules(DQM) • Database Development • Two (02) Operational WLCG Tier-2 Sites in Pakistan.

  5. Departmental Activities at NCP (2/3) • Experimental Physics • The state-of–the-art 5 MV PelletronTandem Accelerator Facility. • Application areas: • Material Science, Solid state, Environmental Science, Nano technology. • Nano Science & Catalysis • Research areas • Synthesis of Nanostructured Materials, Energy Materials, Smart Materials, Environmental, Nano biotechnogy, Bio Fuel, Nanocomposites, Energy Storage Devices, Nano medicines.

  6. Departmental Activities at NCP (3/3) • Centre for Earthquake Studies • Part of Global Network for Forecasting Earthquakes (GNFE), • Perform Statistical analysis on various data sets, for Earthquake predications • Theoretical Physics • Research Areas • Plasma Physics, Laser Physics, Advanced computing & Mathematical modelling, Condensed Matter Physics. • Vacuum Science and Technology • Its main focus is on education, training, research and development in the field of Vacuum Science & Technology and allied areas.

  7. Events/Workshops and Conferences at NCP • NCP regularly hosts/organizes number of scientific events in collaboration with CERN, ICTP ( Italy ) as well as other National Institutes. • International Scientific School (ISS) • International NathiaGali Summer College (INSC) • LHC School on Physics • International College on Plasma Physics • Some other workshops have also been held like: • TEIN HRD workshop on IPv6 Deployment • Workshop on GPU Computing • Advanced Course on Accelerator Techniques for Material Analysis

  8. Computing Facilities at NCP • WLCG Tier-2 Site • Local Computing Cluster • Private Cloud • Certification Authority

  9. Worldwide LHC Computing Grid (WLCG) • NCP hosted the first WLCG Tier-2 site in Pakistan in collaboration with CMS experiment at CERN. • NCP-LCG2 site has been working since 2005. • Valuable resource statistics are listed in the table below:

  10. NCP Grid Utilization

  11. HPC Cluster at NCP • Local HPC cluster Deployed • Based on Rocks Linux Cluster Distribution • 100+ CPU cores are reserved for indigenous research activities. • This cluster is being used by researchers working in different disciplines across Pakistan. • The user base of this facility comprises students, researchers and faculty members of different universities and research institutes of Pakistan.

  12. HPC Research Areas • Some of the scientific areas where researchers are benefitting from this facility are as follows:

  13. HPC Cluster Utilization

  14. HPC Cluster Utilization (2) Cluster Usage Trend---- Last 3 years Cluster Usage ---- Last 2 years

  15. Private Cloud at NCP • Open Stack based Private cloud has been deployed in NCP for efficient utilization of idle resources. • NCP compute servers hardware is partially shifted on Openstack Based Private Cloud. • Ceph based block storage model is also adopted for flexibility. • As we have just seen, NCP is hosting two different computing environments: • WLCG-TIER-2 site for EHEP community • Local computing cluster for other scientific community • Both these projects are hosted on our private cloud.

  16. Private Cloud at NCP

  17. PK-GRID-CA at NCP • PK-GRID-CA at NCP, is the first non-commercial Certification Authority (CA) of Pakistan accredited by European Grid Policy Management Authority (EuGridPMA) since 2004. • EuGridPMA’s peer policy management bodies are APGridPMA (governing Asia Region) and TAGPMA (governing Americas Region) working under Interoperable Global Trust Federation (IGTF) framework. • Total Certs Issued : 510 • User Certs : 284 • Host Certs : 226 • Certificates Expired : 353 • Certificates Revoked : 86 • Active Certificates : 71

  18. E-Science Activities at other Institutes in Pakistan • COMSATS Institute of Information Technology (CIIT) • Ghulam Ishaq Khan Institute (GIKI) • National University of Science and Technology (NUST) • Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS)

  19. Worldwide LHC Computing Grid (WLCG) • Pakistan is also hosting an ALICE Tier-2 site at CIIT • PK-CIIT site is working with following statistics currently. New Data Centre with increased number of Resources …in Progress

  20. HPCCluster at GIKI • The High Performance Computer or HPC cluster at GIKI uses supercomputer and parallel processing for solving complex computational problems rapidly and efficiently. The HPC cluster at GIKI has the following specifications: • Total CPUs: 160 cores using latest 16C AMD Opteron Processors • Total main memory: 640 GB of 1600MHz • Total GPUs: 1024 cores (Tesla 2090 system) • Connectivity: 10GB Ethernet switch • Hard disks: 1.8TB with 15k rpm (speed) https://www.giki.edu.pk/Documents/HPCManual.pdf

  21. Supercomputing Research and Education Facility at NUST • Supercomputing Research and Education Facility is a Centre of Excellence in High Performance Computing with a mission to support the research and  development efforts at NUST. • The facility is being utilized in computation-intensive research projects in following areas. • Fluid Dynamics and Biosciences • Huge data processing applications • Flood and Weather Forecasting • Financial Analysis • Oil and Gas Exploration • Energy Efficient Building Designs • Transportation Management at national-level.

  22. Supercomputing Research and Education Facility at NUST http://www.nust.edu.pk/INSTITUTIONS/Centers/RCMS/AboutUs/facilities/screc/Pages/default.aspx

  23. National Center in Big Data and Cloud Computing (NCBC) at LUMS • The National Center in Big Data and Cloud Computing (NCBC) headquartered at the Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS), inaugurated on May 4, 2018. • NCBC focuses on R&D and human resource development in the specialized field of Big Data and Cloud Computing and its practical applications. • NCBC brings together 12 laboratories across 11 leading universities of the country working in fields ranging from medicine and agriculture to energy management and distribution.

  24. Affiliated Labs with CNBC • Digital Pakistan Lab – CEME, NUST, Rawalpindi • Distributed Computing Lab – LUMS • Language Engineering Lab – UET Lahore • Exascale Open Data Lab – NED UET, Karachi • Precision Medicine Lab – CECOS – FAST NU • Video Surveillance Lab – PNEC (NUST) & FAST NU (Karachi) • Sustainable Energy Informatics Lab – LUMS • Predictive Analytics Lab – SZABIST (ISB, KHI) • Precision Agriculture and Analytics Lab – UAF (Faisalabad) • Crime Investigation and Prevention Lab – ITU (Lahore) • Data Acquisition, Processing & Predictive Analytics – Ziauddin University • Data Analytics Lab – UETP http://web.lums.edu.pk/~ncbc/affiliated-labs/

  25. E-Infrastructure for R&D • Pakistan’s National Education & Research Network (PERN), managed by Higher Education Commission(HEC) • Pakistan Education and Research Network (PERN), (2003-2008) • ~ 87 Universities/institutes and R&D connected. • 155 Mbps CORE bandwidth. • 4-24Mbp Last mile bandwidth. • PERN2 ( 2009-2015) • 250 + Universities/Institutes and R&D organization connected. • Core bandwidth 10 Gbps. • International NREN connectivity 1Gbps • PERN3 (2016) • Upgradation of core bandwidth to 40Gbps. • Last Mile 10Gbps connectivity to University/Research centre. • Connectivity to More national Academic institutes. • SMART universities, Wireless Coverage .

  26. E-Infrastructure for R&D Pakistan’s National Education and Research Network, With Other NREN’s through Trans-EurAsia Information Network (TEIN) • Currently 1Gbps of R&E link, between Pakistan Education and Research Network (PERN) and TEIN. • Pakistan’s Connectivity to TEIN via Singapore (SG) PoP. • R&E Link is shared among Universities/Projects in Pakistan…… ( i.e. Not dedicated for LHC traffic only)

  27. Telemedicine over PERN • From the Operation Theatre facility of Holy Family Hospital Rawalpindi • Live surgeries on Advanced Upper G.I. Laparoscopy. • The medical graduates and the doctors’ participation

  28. Future Projects • National level cloud which will integrate all cluster / cloud setups in Pakistan. • Proposal Under Review • National Centre for Data Analytics and Cloud Computing • Proposal Under Review • GPU-based HPC Cluster at NCP • Proposal Under Review • National Centre for Artificial Intelligence • Approved

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