APAN e-Science Track Update on National Grid in

APAN e-Science Track Update on National Grid in Singapore 5 July 2004 Jon Lau Assistant Head, NGO

Update • Last presented @ APAN in Busan (Korea) in August 2003 • Since then… – NGPP launched, governance setup, applications developed, training courses conducted – Planning for NG Phase 2 – industry focused – Access Grid node setup & more adoption – More international collaboration

National Grid Vision to facilitate the seamless use of an integrated cyber infrastructure in a secure, effective and efficient manner to advance scientific, engineering & biomedical R&D, with the longer term goal of transforming the Singapore economy using grid

National Grid Steering Committee Chairman – Mr. Peter Ho MTI (A*STAR, EDB, RIs) MINDEF MITA (DSTA, DSO) (IDA, MDA) MOH (Hospitals) MOE (Schools, NUS, NTU) Industry (Lilly, Philips. SCS, Star. Hub) National Grid Governance Council (NGGC) Working Groups Security Middleware & Architecture Governance & Policy Facilitates & coordinates activities National Grid Office (NGO) National Grid Operations Centre (NGOC) Applications National Grid Competency Centre (NGCC) Access Grid Digital Media System Administrators Life Sciences SIGs Physical Sciences Network … Virtual Grid Communities

Activities • • Formulate the framework & policies Plan & develop a secure platform Adopt common open standards Encourage the adoption of Grid Computing • Demonstrate the commercial viability of compute-resource-on-tap • Lay the foundation for a vibrant Grid Computing economy

Stakeholders [listed in alphabetical order]

Entity OS Platform IHPC AIX IBM Regatta One-North (BII & GIS) Linux Solaris Compaq Alpha Cluster Sun NUS Linux Intel Xeon Cluster NTU Solaris Linux Sun Fire Intel Pentium 4 SMA Linux Itanium 2

Official Launch

Industry Partners • Platinum Partners • Gold Partners • Classic Partners

Governance Council • Roles – Develop & promulgate policies for • Management & operation of NGPP, Sharing of resources on NGPP, Assess rights & privileges of authorized users, Preventive actions & contingency plans for risk management, Security, Service continuity, Disruptive recovery & Code of conduct for users – Develop a framework for service level management to ensure that NGPP service levels meet desired objectives – Monitor & review performance & utilization of NGPP – Develop a framework for economic model for next phase of NGPP

Physical Sciences VGC Activities Temasek Labs Distributed Simulation of Flow over Dimpled Surfaces Diagnostics & Repair Scheduling Skewed Satellite Image Geo-rectification of Satellite Images Distributed Dissipative Particle Dynamics (DPD) Simulation Collaborative Engineering Design & Simulation Complex Design & Modeling

Sponsored by : Supported by : Organized by :

Life Sciences VGC E-Cell & Gene Simulation Encyclopedia of Life Grid. Blast

Life Science DB Mirroring • Issue identified: various entities in Singapore downloading huge Life Sciences databases from overseas sites over limited bandwidth, resulting in infrequent updatedness. • Solution: To rationalise the overseas download of common databases, provision these databases for local sharing, and failovers.

Organised by Sponsored by Brought to you by

Distributed Computer Assisted Cel Animation • • A fully integrated 2 D animation production system where many parts of 2 D animation production pipeline are automated to free artists from mundane jobs to concentrate on creative tasks. This project performs distributed cel animation from providing auto inbetweening to auto-coloring & take advantage of a large number of clusters & nodes in a grid to greatly reduce the production time & improve the quality of animation production. Auto In-betweening

Promoting Grid Computing

Grid Technology as Competitive Weapon by Dr. Andrew Grimshaw (Avaki Corp. , USA) Gridbus Toolkit for Grid & Utility Computing by Dr. Rajkumar Buyya (University of Melbourne, Australia) Challenges in High Performance Computing using Clusters & Grid by Dr. Dave Scott (Intel Corp. , USA) PBS Pro as a Grid Enabler by Michael Humphrey (Altair Engineering, Inc. , USA) The UK e-Science Programme by Dr. Anne Trefethen (e-Science Core Program, UK) Grid Computing at IBM by Dr. Jean Pierre Prost (IBM Grid Design Center, France) Thai. Grid by Dr. Putchong Uthayopas (Kaserat University, Thailand) e. Science Projects at Edinburgh e. Science Centre by Derek Waddell (Edinburgh Research & Innovation, UK) Grid Computing & e-Science – from Design to in-Service Support by Dr. Peter Cowley (Rolls-Royce plc, UK) The Micro. Grid – Enabling Scientific Study of Dynamic Grid Behavior by Dr. Andrew Chien (UCSD, USA) Grid – The Real Thing by Dr. Dejan Milojicic (HP Labs, USA)

APSTC Grid Initiatives in Asia Pacific by Dr. Simon See (Sun Microsystems) AIST Grid Initiatives in Japan & Asia Pacific by Dr. Yoshio Tanaka (National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science & Technology, Japan) Grids for Real: Experiences from Operational Public & Enterprise Grids by Sravish Sridhar (United Devices, Inc. , USA) … Digital Media VGC Kick-off Symposium (H 2 2004) Super. Computing Global 2004 AG Site

Grid Innovations & Applications Competition • Target: – Students at Institutes of Higher Learning • Date: 1 Jun 2003 - 10 Jan 2004 • Jointly organised by: • Sponsored by:

30 June – 1 July 2004 Hotel Grand Copthrone Waterfront, Singapore Topics • Problem solving environments, workflow & development tools • Grid programming models, languages, debugging & compilation techniques • Grid Tools, Middleware & Fabrics • Scheduling & resource management • Grid applications & system solutions in science & engineering • Novel uses of grid computing concepts & technologies • Grid Security

• Singapore to host in 2006 (with NTU) • Other forthcoming events – PRAGMA 2005 (with BII) – LSGrid 2005 (with NUS) - tba – APAN 2006 (with Sing. AREN) - tba

NGCC Training Courses • Introduction to Grid Computing & National Grid Pilot Platform • Introduction to Globus Toolkit for Administrators • Setting up an Access Grid (PIG) • From Cluster to Grid – Building a User. Friendly Grid-enabled Cluster • Grid-Enabling of Applications

NGCC Training Map Legend IT Professionals Users/Business Professionals Programmers

National Grid Phase 2 The 4 “Beyonds”

Beyond R&D

… to Industry • Working with – – – Infocomm Development Authority Media Development Authority Economic Development Board Private sector MNCs & SMEs … • Use the Grid infrastructure as an enhancement of the business ecosystem for corporations & businesses

Beyond Computational Grid

… to Access Grid • An ensemble of resources including multimedia large-format displays, presentation & interactive environments, & interfaces to Grid middleware & to visualization environments. • Support group-to-group interactions across the Grid. • For example – AG is used for large-scale distributed meetings, collaborative work sessions, virtual workshops, education sessions, seminars, lectures, tutorials, & training. Group conferences of dozens of people at six or seven different sites are common.

AG Sessions • NGO-AIST MOU Signing (14 May 2004) @ I 2 R • NGO-KISTI on project collaboration (1 June 2004) @ I 2 R • Keynote speeches @ Graphite (16 - 18 June 2004) @ NTU • Coming: – AG Sessions between NTU & Birmingham University, UK – More AG Sessions between NGO & KISTI – To participate as a site in SC Global 2004 • AG Special Interest Group – IMCB, IHPC, NTU & NUS

… to Data Grid • Surprising few data intensive grid applications • Rationalizing Life Sciences database download, mirroring & maintenance as well as hosting of locally generated databases (ala NCBI) • Participation in CERN LCG project

Beyond Singapore

… to International Collaboration • The Grid extends beyond national boundaries • The Singapore National Grid wants to be plugged in to the global network through – Working with organizations like Sing. AREN, APAN & other such bodies; and – Advanced network infrastructure that APAN & others are building. • Promotion of e-Science type projects

Operational Grid with Caltech SDSC ANL NCSA Purdue PSC CERN LCG CERN SINGAPORE [Courtesy of Hewlett Packard]

MOU Signing & Seminar 14 May 2004

Beyond Bilateralism

… to Multi-Lateralism • Current projects tend to involve 2 parties • Need to involve more than 2 parties to address larger sized problems

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