PRAGMA New Membership Application

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PRAGMA New Membership Application

• PRAGMA-9
• Oct 20-22, Hyderabad, India
• The College of Computer Science and Technology,
  Jilin University, China
• Prof. Chunguang Zhou, Dean
• Dr. 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 ST
  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

• Awards
• In 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 CSF4
CSF4 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

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

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Integrating meta-scheduler (CSF), local scheduler
(LSF/SGE) and Gfarm
Gfarm jobs
Local Cluster
Remote Cluster
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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 flock to this
  area for the Ice Lantern Festival and the winter
  sports.

Ski Resorts
Ice Lantern Festival
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Attractions of Changchun City

• Film City
• Changchun Film Studio is regarded 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.