Potential Collaboration between Thailand and Japan on HPC

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Potential Collaboration between Thailand and
Japan on HPC

• Sissades Tongsima, Ph.D.
• National Electronics and Computer Technology
  Center (THAILAND)

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Outline

• Why are we here?
• Local Computing Resources
• Grid Infrastructure
• Applications (possible collaborative efforts)
• Digital Archive, Satellite Data
• Bio-informatics, Hydro-informatics

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Why are we here?

• Driving by high speed networking technology
• Possible uses of WAN
• Impacts to society
• Seeking collaboration from research org.

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Local Computing Resources

• High-end workstations from academia
• Forming Cluster Computing system
• Providing services to students/employees
• Web server
• Moderate performance computing
• Supercomputers
• SGI Power Challenge, Origin2000 etc.

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Grid Infrastructure

• Bridging distributed computing resources
• Using Internet
• Heterogeneity
• Require middleware to give consistent service
• Scheduling
• How to manage resources
• Transparent to users
• Shared environment

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Distributed Computing using Grid
Japan
Thailand
Others


Computing Spool
IBM SP
Origin 2000
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Computational Grid Vision
Compute
Access
Data
Middleware
Res. 1
Res. 2
Res. N
Broadband Communication (High Speed Link)
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New Computational Capabilities
Share Knowledge
Distributed Computing
GRID
Info Repositories
Collaborative Activity
Shared Resources
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APAN Consortium

• Advanced networking applications
• Service to Asia-Pacific
• Phase 2 with 155 Mbps or more links
• Much research conducted to improve Technology

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Asia-Pacific Advanced Network

• 2 Mbps will be upgraded to 8 Mbps
• Thaisarn III and Internet 2
• Future 100 Gbps with Oxygen Proj.

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APAN Technology Movement
Middleware
Applications

• Measurement
• Multicasting
• IPv6
• QoS
• Satellite
• Cache
• Multimedia etc.

• Agriculture
• Bioinformatics
• Digital Libraries
• Education
• Grid
• Manufacturing
• Medical etc.

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Research in Thailand

• Open archive (large database)
• Centralized or distributed
• Methodologies to manage the archive
• Depositing, indexing, retrieving, searching
• Getting knowledge
• Data mining
• Bio-informatics and hydro-informatics
• Rice genome, rainfall prediction etc.

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Open Archiving

• How to define methods to store data
• Capability to access from members
• Maintaining the global (virtual) view of archive
• Intelligent Indexing

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Getting Knowledge from the Archive

• Having tons of useful data
• non-complete data
• hidden fake data
• Finding the way to squeeze the essence
• Use data mining to extract

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The Big Picture
Bio-Informatics
Hydro-Informatics
DATA Prediction
DATA Prediction
Data Grid
NETWORK and GRID Services
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Fields of Study in Bio/Hydro Info.

• Human genome variation
• Protein structure predict
• Drug design
• Biodiversity
• Control infection
• Agricultural matter e.g., Rice Genome project

• Water resource mngmnt.
• Rainfall prediction
• Computer modeling

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Announcement

• The International Conference on Bioinformatics
  2002 (North-South Networking)
• 6-8 February 2002, Bangkok, Thailand
• APAN annual conference
• Last week of January 2002, Thailand
• Grid computing ? (INTERNET 2)

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Thats All Folks

• Two major fields of collaborative research
• Infrastructure (both networking and middleware)
• Applications on the Grid
• Supporting Grid infrastructure
• Fine tuning middleware
• Globus toolkit, Legion, GRACE
• Test Suites on the infrastructure
• Bioinformatics, Hydroinformatics
• Other related areas are also welcome

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The New Beginning
Looking for collaboration