Current State of Grid Computing Researches and Applications in Vietnam

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Current State of Grid Computing Researches and
Applications in Vietnam

• Nguyen Thanh Thuy1, Nguyen Kim Khanh1,
• Tran Ba Thai2
• 1Hanoi University of Technology
• 2Institute of Information Technology
• thuynt_at_it-hut.edu.vn
• On behalf of the members of the VNGrid Project

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Outline

• Researches on grid computing in Vietnam
• Centers for High Performance Computing
• Research activities
• Towards a grid infrastructure for Vietnam
• VNGrid project
• The aims
• Planed activities
• Initial results
• a data grid for meteorology
• Conclusion

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Grid computing in Vietnam

• Initial step
• since a few last years
• several HPC centers in Hanoi and HCM City
• Hanoi University of Technology
• Institute of Information Technology, HCM City
• Vietnam National University, Hanoi
• Vietnamese Institute of Mathematics
• HCM City University of Technology

Centers for HPC
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Milestones
TEIN2-VN Project (Trans-Eurasia Information
Network)
First center for HPC at HUT
300 GFlops computing center at VNU (max)
BK Grid Group at HUT
2001
2002
2003
2004
2005
2006
Other HPC centers are founded
First national conference on HPC and grid
computing in HCM city
BioGrid Group at IOIT-HCM
VNGrid Project
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Encountered Issues

• Not yet HPC centers of Tera Flops
• Not yet a common infrastructure to connect HPC
  centers
• Grid computing rests in academic researches. Not
  yet large scale applications.

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Activities done

• Building grid portals
• BKGrid (HUT)
• Grid iPortal (VNU-HCM)
• Experimenting with applications on
• Meteorology (HUT, VNU-Hanoi)
• Bioinformatics (IOIT-HCM)
• Participating in international grids
• Pragma (IOIT-HCM)
• APGrid (Vietnamese Institute of Mathematics)

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VNGrid Project

• Financed by Ministry of Science and Technology of
  Vietnam
• A two year project, to be finished in October
  2009
• 5 partners in the project
• HUT
• IOIT in Hanoi
• IOIT in HCM City
• VNU in Hanoi
• Vietnam Military Technical Academy (VMTA)

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The aims of VNGrid (1)

• Building a cyber-infrastructure to connect five
  partners in VN-Grid
• Deploying advanced grid technologies to improve
  the performance
• Resource monitoring and discovering
• Scheduling and brokering
• ? hard to reach the objective!

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The aims of VNGrid (2)

• Experimenting grid-based applications on
• Bioinformatics,
• Meteorology,
• Virtual Reality,
• Cryptography.
• Being connected to other grid systems in the
  region and over the world

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Planned activities

• Selecting the common technology solution for the
  whole VNGrid
• suitable for the infrastructure in Vietnam
• Via TEIN2
• Establishing necessary security policy
• Developing and deploying some grid applications
• Building a VNGrid Portal
• Connecting VNGrid to PRAGMA and some others

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Attended results

• Establishing VNGrid for Grid RD and application
  community in Vietnam
• Assembling separated HPC centers in Vietnam
• Reinforcing researches on grid computing in
  Vietnam
• Towards applying GC in industrial domains
• Opening a new opportunity for collaboration with
  partners outside Vietnam HPC, storage and
  content resources!!!

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Apllication 1 Bioinformatics

• Deploying grid technologies for Gene Mapping
  (IOIT-HCM)
• Use Haplotype Pattern Mining (HPM), and Density
  Based Spatial Clustering of Application with
  Noise (DBSCAN) to specify the locations of
  genetic diseases
• Performing Blast and gene prediction in Grid
  computing environment using iGridPortal (HCM City
  College of Natural Sciences)

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Apllication 2 Meteorological Forecast

• Using agent technologies to deploy grid services
• An agent has responsible for calling appropriate
  services following user requirements

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Application 2 BKGrid and Meteorological Forecast
(cont)

• Applying the HPC and Grid Computing for climate
  forecast (HUT, VNU-Hanoi)
• Deploying the MM5 model
• Exploiting resources on APGrid to run a model for
  climate forecast (Vietnamese Institute of
  Mathematics)

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Intial results data grid for meteorology at HUT

• Weather forecasting plays an important role in
  the society
• for agriculture, commerce, catastrophe
  preventing, etc.
• There are different institutions in Vietnam
  working on the meteorology problems but the
  cooperation is not easy for
• sharing local observation data
• sharing hardware and software resources on
  computing weather forecast data

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A data grid portal for meteorology

• Building a data grid for sharing meteorological
  datasets is a suitable solution in Vietnam for
• Exploiting resources from different HPC centers
• Providing a central and easy access point to all
  meteorological data via a grid portal
• Offering a reliable mean for storing and sharing
  meteorological data for research purpose
• Public access to climate forecast website

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System architecture
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Weather forecast modeling

• Model used for weather forecasting MM5.
• It can be run on a cluster for the high
  performance

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Deployment of MM5 model

• MM5 model already deployed automatically in a
  cluster with 3 datasets each day
• Downloading periodically global meteorology data
  from the AVN site
• Combining with local observation data on modeling
• Configuring easily the modeling process via a
  configuration file
• Fault tolerance implemented to make the service
  more reliable

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Data grid services

• Data grid as a virtual container for storing data
  and easy access later
• Basic services provided
• Replicating data in several nodes
• Searching data based on metadata
• Transferring data between nodes

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Prototype
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Conclusion

• Grid Computing brings chances to developing
  countries as Vietnam. We need
• Computing Resources and HPC
• Storage Resources and Data in applications,
• QoS networking service.
• Grid tools
• Collaboration
• Shortage of resources and only initial steps
  done, more co-operations needed!

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Conclusion

• We would like to join grid computing communities
  in
• APAN
• TEIN

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Thank you very much for your attention!