Grid Activities in Singapore 20 February 2006

National Grid Vision to facilitate the seamless use of an integrated cyber infrastructure in a secure, effective & 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 MTI (A*STAR, EDB, SPRING, RIs) MINDEF MICA (DSTA, DSO) MOH (IDA, MDA) (Hospitals) MOE (Schools, NUS, NTU) Industry (Lilly, CPG. ITSC, SITF, …) National Grid Governance Council (NGGC) Working Groups Security Middleware & Architecture Governance & Policy Facilitates & coordinates activities PC Grid Computing Manufacturing Access Grid Digital Media System Administrators Life Sciences SIGs Physical Sciences Network National Grid Operations Centre (NGOC) … Virtual Grid Communities National Grid Office (NGO) National Grid Competency Centre (NGCC)

National Grid Pilot Platform – Phase 1 • Objectives: – Build grid computing awareness – Foster collaboration – Interconnect main compute resources • Scope: – Establish 1 GE backbone – Establish rudimentary infrastructure for R&D in universities/research centres – Testbed distributed applications 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

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

Physical Sciences 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 Organized by : Complex Design & Modeling Collaborative Engineering Design & Simulation

Life Sciences Activities • Rationalizing Life Sciences database download, mirroring & maintenance • Hosting of locally generated databases (ala NCBI) • Future Enhancements Organised by – Allow queries across main databases – Support integration of Singapore data – Expand audience to include medical professionals Encyclopedia of Life E-Cell & Gene Simulation Grid. Blast

PC Grid Computing • Stages – – 1: 2: 3: 4: Ideas Competition Selection Development Resource Donation • 3 categories – Schools – Institutes of Higher Learning – Open Sponsored by Joint Organizers with

PC Grid Computing • DSTA’s funding for – Vacation Camp 2005 • 6 & 7 December 2005 – Grid-enabling of 2 new applications – 200 United Devices client licenses for schools • In discussion – IDA funding for ICT Clubs in Schools Jointly organized by Supported by

Aero. Genome – Crunching on a PC Grid • Aim: To study bacterial microorganisms in the air in Singapore. • Motivation: Air plays significant role in public & environmental health • Initial dataset of 20, 000 DNA sequences were matched against database of 3 million known sequences. Single run on isolated compute resources took an entire month. • Same process took less than 2 days on TCG@NUS • Future: Scale up study using larger datasets. Courtesy of Dr. Patrick Tan, GIS

Collaborative Engineering • Co-funded collaboration partnership • Industry partners • Benefits • Collaborative Construction Management Initiative • Distributed Collaborative Design & Manufacturing Initiative • Collaborative Engineering Test Bed for Product Realization Initiative – IDA, NUS, Sun Microsystems, APSTC, SES Systems Pte Ltd – Singapore Aerospace Manufacturing, IMAO, ABB Lummus Global, JGC – Help industry to gain early competitive advantage through exploiting engineering collaboration & problem solving capabilities – – Integrated Production Scheduler for Constraints Management Process Parameter Interface Model for Design Management Integrated 4 -D Product Process Model for Constructability Analysis Will use P 2 P for industrial environments – Will provision an Engineering Grid for simulation-based design

Biological Integrated Manufacturing & Services System • Partners • Objective • Platform • Integrates • Provides • Enables • Reduces – SIMTech, MC 3, NTU, NUS, Novus. Gene, progeniq, Sun Microsystems, Attogenix, Koo. Prime – An integrated platform that allows interoperability between Grid Computing & Bioinstrumentation – That interfaces with bio-databases, bio-informatic tools & manufacturing systems – KOOPlatform, Goal Net, Taverna, Aris & Protégé to facilitate interoperability – A complete pipeline for diagnostic kits design – Robust automation, data acquisition & analysis of bio-instruments – Faster & more cost-efficient techniques for drug development & bio-research – Supply chain costs with integrated resource inventory & logistics planning & scheduling

A*STAR-NGO Call: 2005 Awards SN Project Principal Investigator 1 Grid-based Comparative Genomics Pipeline for Detecting Conserved Noncoding Functional Regions Jagath C Rajapakse (NTU) 2 Development of a Grid System with Applications to Large-Scale Bio- & Nano-material System Bertil Schmidt (NTU) 3 A Personalized & Adaptive Literature Curation System for the Biomedical Sciences Patrick Tan (NCC) 4 Grid-based PSE for Engineering of Materials Ong Yew Soon (NTU) 5 A Novel Approach to Modeling & Animation with Disk & Ball B-Spline Over the Grid Seah Hock Soon (NTU) 6 Stochastic Super-resolution Imaging: Fundamentals, Algorithms & its Grid Computing Paradigms Ma Kai-Kuang (NTU) 7 Grid-based Scalable & Extensible Large Scale Collaborative Environment Lin Qingping (NTU) 8 Operational Transparent VGC over Service Oriented Grid Robert Gay (NTU) 9 A Semantic based Qo. S Control & Management Framework for Grids Pung Hung Keng (NUS) 10 Design of Resource Management & Large-Scale Data Processing Strategies for Grid Computing Environments Bharadwaj Veeravali (NUS)

Adaptive Enterprise @ Singapore • AE@SG R&D projects – Focus on digital media • User Council (comprising industry participants) to provide requirements & validate work (SMU, HP) – Participation in Large Hadron Collider (LHC) Computational Grid (LCG) WP 6 Grid Economics & Business Models • Global Operation Grid (GOG) WP 1 (NTU, Portal/Media Workbench SIMTech, HP) Cel Animation Grid Enabled Applications Pov. Ray WP 3 (IHPC, NTU, NUS, HP) Information and Job Management Grid Middleware (Globus) Infrastructure GOG NGP P WP 2 (NTU, Temasek Poly, HP) WP 4 … WP 5

Global Operational Grid (GOG) Caltech SDSC ANL NCSA Purdue PSC • Implement baseline grid HPC resources • Build partnerships CERN LCG • Industry-relevant IP creation CERN ASCC SINGAPORE GOG Cluster In collaboration with HP Tiramisu Program

Grid Market MC 3 64 Sun Opteron Grid Resource Brokers Grid Resource Providers GOG 2 TB Xeon + Itanium 2 72 78 Hardware (CPU, Storage, …) Providers MC 3 dmh Users Application Software Vendors Grid Exchange Sembawang 150 64 CEP Tools JGC SES AE@SG 2 FEMLAB mental ray

Accounting Organisational level consumer-provider business relationship Metering Grid Accounting System (GAS) Bill for organization A = ∑ (usage of members of organization A at resources owned by other organizations) $ = f (CPU , memory, license, …) Usage charging Ganglia Monitorin g Collection of raw data Resource Usage … Resource Usage Only stores & reports on information of resource status, no information of users & their jobs Hence, no metering & accounting mechanism [Courtesy of A/Prof. Francis Lee, NTU]

Digital Media Grid POC – Support for animation rendering – Software installed • POV-Ray • 150 x mental ray licenses – Objective of Trial • For serious users to experience running animation rendering jobs over the grid & understand the state of technology – Users • VHQ Post, Cubic Communications

Enterprise Grid for SMEs • Objectives – Create awareness in SMEs – Provide assistance & guidance to SMEs to harness Grid Computing to exploit internal compute resources • Partners – Mega. Media’s digital media hub (dmh) – TBA

Use of mental ray Licenses • Digital Media companies to use the facilities: • VHQ • Omens-Studio • Enterprise grid @ dmh has been enabled to utilize the licenses • Free access & no charge to commercial users & IHLs

Goal of Proof-of-Concept For users to harness resources on NGPP to run FEMLAB on a pay-per-use basis resulting in cost-savings for companies, encouraging R&D activities, & improving utilization of resources.

Test-bedding of Provisioning • Objective – To assess viability of a spill-over facility using GOG clusters – To measure speed of provisioning – To explore appropriate cost model • Outcomes – Accuracy of results is confirmed – License conditions to be re-visited

1 st South East Asia Grid Forum 8 Feb 2006, Singapore • Members • Purpose To provide a forum for national level discussions on setting up grid infrastructures, deploying applications, and facilitating coordination of projects of common interest in South East Asia. Sponsored by:

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