Welcome to KISTI

1. Welcome to KISTI KISTI-CCIN2P3 FKPPL Workshop December 1, 2008 Minsun LEE

2. 2000 1990 1980 1960 Brief History of KISTI 2000.2 : KINTI and KORDIC/Supercomputing center were merged 2001.1 : KISTI was founded 1991. 1 : KINITI was founded 1993. 3 : KORDIC was founded 1999.10 : Supercomputing center was merged 1982.1 : KIET was founded 1962.1 : KORSTIC was founded

3. SEOUL 160km Daejeon Located in the heart of Science Valley, “Dae-deok” Innopolis The DAEDEOK INNOPOLIS complex consists of a cluster of firms that represents a cross-section of Korea's cutting-edge industries, including information technology, biotechnology and nanotechnology. • 6 Universities • 20 government research • institutes • 10 government-invested • institutes • 33 private R&D labs • 824 high-tech companies KISTI

4. We are the pioneer of building Cyber-Infrastructure of Korea! a Government supported Research Institute to serve Korea Scientists and Engineers with Scientific/Industrial Data Bases, Research Networks & Supercomputing Infrastructure • Organization:8 divisions, 3 centers, 3 branch offices • Personnel: about 340 regular staffs, 100 part timers, • and 100 related workers National R&D Promotion S&T Information Resource & Service Technological & Industrial Information Analysis Supercomputing service High Performance R&D Network service National Cyber R&D Infrastructure • Annual revenue: about USD100M, mostly funded by the government

5. Organization Chart President Auditor Vice President Assistant Auditor Strategy Development NTIS Division Research & Planning Division Information Analysis Center Supercomputing Center TCI Division Admin. Management Division e-Science Division Knowledge Information Center Research Network Division Administration Division Branch Offices(3) -Pusan, Daegu, Kwangju IT Development Division

6. KISTI Supercomputing Center:Extending the horizon of science and technology National headquarters of Supercomputing resources, e-Science, Grid and high performance research networks Help Korea research communities to be equipped with proper knowledge of supercomputing Keep securing/providing world-class supercomputing systems Resource Center Technology Center Resource Center Validate newly emerging concepts, ideas, tools, and systems Make the best use of what the center has, to create the new values Value- adding Center Testbed Center Testbed Center

7. History of KISTI Supercomputers 2 GFlops 115 GFlops 2.85 TFlops 240 GFlops Cray-2S 1st SC System in Korea until 1993 CAVE & SGI Onyx3400 Cray T3E until 2002 NEC SX-5 SC 45 NEC SX-6 TeraCluster 1988 1993 1997 2000 2001 2002 2003 2007 2008 5.2 TF 8.6TF 2GF 16GF 131GF 242GF 35TF 280TF 786GF PC Cluster 128node Cray C90 2nd SC System in Korea until 2001 IBM p690 IBM p690+ 3.7TF HP GS320 HPC160/320 16 GFlops 111 GFlops 435 GFlops 4.36 TFlops

8. GLORIAD (GLObal RIng Network for Advanced Applications Development) with 10/40Gbps Optical lambda networking Global Ring topology for advanced science applications GLORIAD Consortia : Korea, USA, China, Russia, Canada, the Netherlands and 5 Nordic Countries (11 nations) Essential to support advanced application developments : HEP, ITER, Astronomy, Earth System, Bio-Medical, HDTV etc. National GLORIAD project (funded by MOST of KOREA) National Research Network KREONET is the national science & research network of Korea, funded by MOST since 1988 20Gbps backbone, 1 ~ 10Gbps access networks

9. World-class Facilities at KISTI

10. KISTI Top Brand Project (K e-Science) Global Collaboration Key Words Multi-Disciplinary Multi-National Multi-Site GLORIAD(10G) Real World VO (Community, Applications) LifeScience VO Engineering VO GeoScience VO Physics VO CE (KISTI Top Brand Project, MEST) Middleware

11. Global Partnership About 30 institutions from 20 countries GLORIAD(10G) Collaboration China, Japan, US, Taiwan, India etc.

12. Thank you!