PRAGMA New Membership Application

PRAGMA-9 Oct 20-22, Hyderabad, India

The College of Computer Science and Technology, Jilin University, China

Prof. Chunguang Zhou, DeanDr. Xiaohui Wei

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Contents

A brief introduction to Jilin University About The College of Computer Science and

Technology Recent collaborative research activities with

PRAGMA members or others in Grid Computing

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Jilin University Founded in 1946, ranked among the top

10 key universities in China One of the key research universities which

is directly administered by the Ministry of Education

Sponsored by the government through key national projects such as “211”, “985”, and others

Offering a whole series of programs that cover all of the twelve academic categories: philosophy, economics, law, literature, education,

history, science, engineering, agriculture, medicine, management and military sciences.

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Located in Changchun, the capital city of Jilin Province, north-east of China

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Jilin University is the biggest university of China

Jilin University is the biggest university of China, which has • 63,000 fulltime students (including 17,000 graduate students)• More than 6000 faculty members• 128 undergraduate programs• 245 master degree programs• 143 doctoral programs• 27 postdoctoral programs• 5 national key labs• 8 national bases for basic scientific research and training• 7 key labs sponsored by Ministry of Education• 16 members of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and/or Chinese

Academy of Engineering

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The university has 9 campuses in the city, the total campus area is about 1480 acres (The residents in Changchun say that the city is located in the campuses of Jilin University)

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One of the Lecture Halls

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Physics and Chemistry Building

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One of the Student Dining Halls

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One of the Stadiums

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Student Soccer Team

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Internationalized Atmosphere

• Established worldwide exchange and cooperation ties with more than 130 universities/colleges and research institutes in 40 countries or districts

• Over 1400 long-term or short-term foreign students are currently enrolled

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The dormitory for International students

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The College of Computer Science and Technology, Jilin University

Founded in 1976 by Prof. Xianghao Wang, a world famous mathematician, member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences

One of the earliest institutions that endeavor to research on computer science and technology in China.

Its main fields of interest include Artificial Intelligence, Distributed System, Computer Network, Intelligent Programming, Automated Reasoning, Knowledge Engineering, Agent System, Software Engineering and Software Automation, Computer Graphics, etc.

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The college is one of the largest computer colleges in the country

In May 2001, the former College of Computer Science and Technology, Jilin University merged with• Department of Computer Engineering and Technology, Jilin

University of Technology• Department of Computer Science, Changchun University of

Science and Technology• Department of Computer Science, Changchun Post and

Telecommunication Institute Currently, the college has

• 2719 undergraduates, 772 postgraduates and 208 doctoral candidates.

• 194 faculty members, including 39 professors, 50 associate professors

• one member of Chinese Academy of Sciences

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One of the top-tier institutions in China

In 1981, the college became one of the first institutions authorized to offer Computer Software PhD program in China

In 1985, the college became one of the first institutions authorized to found the post-doctoral research center

In 1987, Computer Software program offered by the college was honored as one of the Key Disciplines of the nation

In 1993, the Open Lab of Symbolic Computation and Knowledge Engineering directly administered by the State Education Commission was founded.

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One of the top-tier institutions in China

In 1999, the Key Lab of Computer Communications directly sponsored by the Ministry of Information Industry was established.

In 2002, the discipline of Computer and Software Science and Information Processing was funded by national “Tenth five-year plan” 211 project as key discipline.

In 2002, the discipline of Computer Software and Theory was honored as the Key Discipline of the nation again.

In 2004, the college was authorized to found S&T Innovation Platform of ‘Computing and Software Science’ funded by the national “985” project.

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Recent research activities

Projects• In the recent five years, the college has finished 110

projects supported by CNSF, national “973” high-tech program, national “863” high-tech program and so on, the funds obtained are about RMB 60 million Yuan in total.

• There are 45 under-going projects funded by

government, the total funding is about 45 million RMB Yuan.

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Recent research activities

AwardsIn the past five years, the college has won more than 20 awards from the government, like• Second Prize of National Science and Technology Progress Award• Special Prize by Electronic Ministry • “Ninth five-year plan” National Key Science and Technology

Projects Award• First prize for Jilin Province Science and Technology Progress, • Etc.

Publications• More than 900 papers • 24 books/monographs

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International Collaboration Our college has established collaborative relationships with

many universities and institutes like:• Research Center of Cooperation, West Virginian University, USA.• Research Institute of High Performance Computation, Singapore• Department of Mechanical Engineering, National University of

Singapore • Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of

British Columbia, Canada • Platform Computing Inc, Canada• UCSD, US• AIST, Japan• Automation & Computer Aided Engineering Dept, Chinese

University of Hong Kong, • etc

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International Collaboration The college has signed agreements to establish

people training programs with world famous IT companies, such as• IBM, Microsoft, ORACLE, SUN, HP, Ricoh and BEA,

etc. International Conferences

• In July, 2005, the college hosted the International Bioinformatics Workshop; more than 200 representatives from abroad and China attended the conference

• etc

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Recent Research Activities on Grid Computing

The College started its research on grid computing since 2000, however, the research on high performance computing dated back to 1980.

The College started to collaborate with UCSD (US), AIST (Japan) and Platform Inc (Ca) from 2003 in the fields of grid computing and middleware. • From 2004 to 2005, working with Platform the College

delivered the WSRF based CSF (Community Scheduler Framework) as a contribution component of GT4.

• To provide a grid test bed for data-intensive applications like iGap, JLU, UCSD and AIST are working at integrating meta-scheduler (CSF), local scheduler (LSF/SGE) and Gfarm.

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Recent Research Activities on Grid Computing

• From 2005, JLU started to get involved in the Pacific Rim Undergraduate Experience by sending students and faculty members to UCSD.

• Another on-going co-research project between JLU and Platform is aiming at developing a grid operating system prototype.

Project Funded by CNSF• To research the methods to monitor and evaluate the

execution performance of grid applications

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Community Scheduler Framework 4.0 – CSF4

What is CSF• Full name: Community Scheduler Framework• CSF is a meta-scheduler working at grid level• The first version of CSF, CSF3, was developed based

on GT3-OGSI, contributed by Platform (a CA software company/LSF)

• CSF4 is the GT4-WSRF compliant version of CSF, providing the same functionalities as CSF3

• CSF is an open source project and can be accessed at http://sourceforge.net (the cvs mainline code is csf4)

• The development team of CSF4 is from Jilin University

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Community Scheduler Framework 4.0 – CSF4CSF4 is a

contribution to GT4

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CSF4 – Architecture

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Implementing Data Aware Scheduling in Gfarm using LSF Plug-in Mechanism

Motivations Data-intensive jobs are drawing more attentions

• iGap - UCSD/NBCR (Dr. Wilfred W. Li)

Gfarm – (a data grid middleware , AIST Dr. Osamu,)Gfarm is a global parallel file system and provides a single file

system image to the users

Like most data grid software, gfarm needs a job queuing and scheduling mechanism• Manual method to locate data-affinity hosts and manage data is not

scalable (Gfarm – gfrun/mpirun, without job queuing) Conflicts between users Load imbalance

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Data aware Scheduling Job scheduling (move job to data)

• Put jobs in the queues• Find the best hosts for gfarm jobs• Constraint the number of running jobs to access a data

replica Data management (move data to jobs)

• create new data replicas when the job load is high Find the host location based on job resource requirement Avoid generating multiple large data replicas within one

scheduling session • delete the obsolete data replicas automatically

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Using the LSF scheduler plug-in mechanism

FCFS Module

Data Aware Module

Other Modules

Gfarm

Scheduler Framework

LSF Scheduler

Figure 1 LSF Scheduler Plugin Mechanism

• No need to write a job scheduler from scratchNo need to write a job scheduler from scratch• Be able to work with other scheduler policies like FCFS, fair-share, Be able to work with other scheduler policies like FCFS, fair-share, preemption, backfill, etc.preemption, backfill, etc.

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Integrating meta-scheduler (CSF), local scheduler (LSF/SGE) and Gfarm

CSF4

WS-GRAM Pre-WS-GRAM

Rocks-110.sdsc.edu

SGE6 Fork LSF6

Rocks-32.sdsc.edu

LSF SGE5.3 Fork

gabd

Local Cluster Remote Cluster

Gfarm jobs

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Plan For Near Future

Continue working on the integration of CSF, local schedulers and gfarm together with UCSD/AIST etc.

Add more features to CSF• support array job• support work flow (job dependency)• support web service jobs• support resource reservations

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Apply PRAGMA Membership To build the strong collaborative relationships with world

leading institutes and universities is a high priority of our college

We are going to enhance and extend the existence collaborations with PRAGMA in the fields of Grid Computing and Bioinformatics etc

We are willing to be a institutional member of PRAGMA We are willing to host future PRAGMA workshops

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Attractions of Changchun City Despite the winter cold, people f

lock to this area for the Ice Lantern Festival and the winter sports.

Ski ResortsIce Lantern Festival

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Attractions of Changchun City Film City Changchun Film Studio is re

garded as the cradle of Chinese films.

It produced the first puppet film Emperor's Dream, the first cartoon film Trap and Catch, the first science Prevention, the first fiction film Bridge, and the first translation film An Ordinary Soldier, thus opened the historic page of Chinese films.

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Attractions of Changchun City

Forest CityChangchun has four clear-cut seasons, and the trees shade the whole city. Changchun is famous as a "Forest City"

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Attractions of Changchun City Wonderful Foods Jilin Cuisine includes a

series of local dishes prepared with wild, green and natural materials and special cooking techniques.