Current Status of Thailand’s Grid Community and Grid

Development Activities

Piyawut SrichaikulComputing Research and Development Division

National Electronics and Computer Technology CenterNational Science and Technology Development Agency

ISGC200427-28 July 2004

ASCC, Taiwan

Outlines

Thailand’s status and activitiesCommunity and CollaborationGrid ApplicationNetwork Connectivity

Emerging project/Future Plans

NECTEC’s roles

Community: ThaiGrid

A partnership project to explore grid computing technology and application in Thailand. Project started since December 2000

Build a grid related community for application level researchersCreate a grid computing infrastructure for Thai researchersStimulate the deployment of Grid Computing TechnologyAct as a focal point for international grid collaboration

Currently funded by National Research Council of Thailand (NRCT) Commission on Higher Education, Ministry of Education

Link: http://www.thaigrid.net

ThaiGrid Members

Kasetsart UniversityKing Mongkut’s Institute of Technology North BangkokSuranaree University of Technology Asian Institute of TechnologyChulalongkorn UniversityWalailak UniversityChiangmai UniversityKMUTTNational Electronics and Computing Technology

Community: Computational Science and Engineering Program Consortium

The Annual National Symposium on Computational Science and Engineering (http://csep.hpcc.nectec.or.th/anscse/)

Computational Mathematics Computational Physics Computational Chemistry and Biology Computational Fluid Dynamics Computational Mechanics Geocomputing Environmental Modeling etc.

The 8th ANSCSE, 21-23 July, 2004287 participants150 presentations

International Grid CollaborationAPAN

Participation in Grid working groupE-ScienceNatural Resource

ApGrid project

Asia Pacific Grid technology test bedAPAG project International Access grid Test bed

PRAGMA Project

Grid application test bedGAMESS over the gridNPACI Rocks / SCEGfarm

Pacific Neighborhood Consortium

Applications being developed

Computational Fluid DynamicsSimulation

Scheduling, OptimizationComputational Chemistry

Virtual Drug Screening, CheminformaticsDistributed data broker

Extended NARC’s Met brokerFuture

Life Science, Multimedia, Financial Engineering

Example: Developing of DRUG DESIGN GRID

Using grid technology to pull HPC resources together to support scientist mission

Drug design : HIV, Avian Flu ( KU/Ministry of Science)

PartnersHPCNC/KU, LCAC/KUIBM

Example: Met Data Broker

Agriculture applications: prediction & planningData sources: Files, SQL databasesData organization:

by stationby elementby locationby each resolution (hourly, daily)

Partner: NECTEC-NARC-HAII

Met Data Broker in Grid Architecture

Coherency control, replica selection, task management, virtual data catalog, virtual data code catalog, …

Discipline-Specific Data Grid Application

Replica catalog, replica management, co-allocation, certificate authorities, metadata catalogs, Access to data, access to computers, access to network performance data, …

Communication, service discovery (DNS), authentication, authorization, delegation

Storage systems, clusters, networks, network caches, …

Broker Broker

Connect

Network

Collective(App)

App

Resource

Connect

Fabric

Collective(Generic)

Example: Access Grid

Being built in KU since 2002KU was part of SCGlobal in SC2003

Being explored by many AIT, NECTEC, KMITNB

PurposeBuilding fast research collaborationTechnical Training

6 new sites this year

Network: THAISARN

Network:UNINET

•• OCOC--3 Backbone3 Backbone

•• Tentatively be upgraded Tentatively be upgraded to 1Gbps in the near to 1Gbps in the near futurefuture

Current connectivity

UNINET

ISP

NIX1 Gbps

THAISARN

IIR100 mbps200 mbps

1 Gbps

NII

Internet2APAN

Initiated future connectivity: ThaiREN……..

UNINET

RENEX

THAISARN

APAN Internet2FundingMICT (CAT)

DWDM Ring(1-10 Gbps)

2. APAN Map - Links

Access PointExchange PointCurrent Status2004 (plan)

USA

Europe

Australia

Indonesia

Vietnam

Sri Lanka

Korea

Thailand

Malaysia

Singapore

Taiwan

Russia

Philippines

China

Hong Kong

Japan

New APAN Map - Clusters

TWHK

Russia

South Asia Net

Central Asia Net

China

PH

AU

MYSG

CN

KR

Oceania Net

South East Asia Net

North Asia Net

CentralAsia

WestAsia

LK

SouthAsia Net

JP

TH

Emerging Project/Future Plan

(Initiated) CERN-Thailand S&T cooperationHigh Energy Physics+Data GridHR development in S&T

Thai e-science ProjectScientific application oriented

Thailand Centre of Excellence in Life ScienceThailand National Grid Project (TNGP)

CERN-THAILAND

Visit to Geneva by the Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhornin Dec 2003 (WSIS) with NSTDA, NECTEC, NSRCIn the process in initiating collaboration with CERN

Seeking Hi-level cooperation2 local meetings to start drafting program proposal

NECTEC/NSTDAChulalongkorn U. (CU)Mahidol U. (MU)National Synchrotron Research Center (NSRC)Chaingmai University (CMU)Kasetsart University (KU)

HEP activities2 visits to CERN by CU physicist: CMS data simulation SW setup

Thai e-science Project

New project funded in 2003 Application oriented project

Current membersComputational Chemistry Unit Cell, Department of Chemistry, Chulalongkorn University Department of Computer Engineering, ChulalongkornUniversity 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

TCELS

Preclinical drug tests and stemcell research and developmentDevelop new genetically appropriate drugs on a molecular level by studying protein structures Focuses:

ThalassemiaDiabetesCancerHypertensionheart disease

Led by Mahidol UniversityOracle Corporation IBM Corporation

Thailand National Grid Project (TNGP)

Proposed project to be funded by Ministry of Information and Communication technology

About 5.5 Million US$ ( 3 year Project)3 main components

National Grid CommitteeNational Grid PlatformNational Excellence Center for Grid Computing

Project lead by Kasetsart University’s HPCNC

Partner Institutions

14 institutionsKasetsart UniversityChulalongkorn UniversityKing Mongkut’s Institute of Technology North BangkokKing Mongkut’s Institute of Technology LadkrabangKing Mongkut’s University of TechnologyMahidol UniversityChiangmai UniversityPrince of Songkla UniversityKhonKhaen UniversitySuranaree University of TechnologyAsian Institute of TechnologySilpakorn UniversityWalailak UniversityDept. of Meteorological, Ministry of ICT

2 new one in the next 2 years

Mahidol

Thailand National Grid Platform

CEGCSUT

KKU

CMU

WU

PSU

KMITNBKU

KMITLCU

KMUTT

AIT

Silpakorn

TMD

Gigabit NetworkUpgraded

32 CPU cluster

Teraflop Site

TNGP Project Status

The concept was approved by MICT’s minister. .Waiting for Cabinet budget approval and will start execution in about 3 months

NECTEC’s roles in GRIDCoordinating support and participation to the growing Computational Science communityBeing a part of Thailand grid community

Computing Grid platform IA64, 32 nodes 64 processors (before end of 2004)Athlon MP, 8 nodes 16 processors

Grid projectsDigital Archive (start)Distributed data broker (on going)HEP Grid support (initiated)MGH (initiated)

Information GridInformation integration across enterprisesMiddleware and application development

Trends for Thailand’s Grid development

Biotechnology, Nanotechnology, and Life Science have become Thailand’s national agenda and prioritiesGrid computing and computational science will be asked to help answering to real national problems [through sustainable process]Bring/Build more people (interdisciplinary scientists) to grid computing communityHPC scientific application Grid-enabled applicationMulti-disciplinary collaboration are the keys

Sources

Grid Computing and Thailand Research Community, PutchongUthayopas/KU, 18th APAN, Cairns, Austalia, July 2004APAN Infrastructures and Research Activities - KanchanaKanchanasut/AIT, May 2004ThaiGridANSCSEApGridPRAGMAAPANPNC

Thank You

Computing Research and Development DivisionNational Electronics and Computer Technology CenterNational Science and Technology Development Agency