Perspectives of Grid Computing and eSciences in Taiwan

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Perspectives of Grid Computing and e-Sciences in
Taiwan

• A.E. Chen NCU
• Jerry Chang NCHC
• Eric Yen ASCC
• April 28 2005

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Outline

• Grid Computing Development
• Taiwan UniGrid
• LCG/EGEE Involvement
• Grid/OSG Participation
• E-Science
• Collaboration and Services in Asia Pacific

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Unigrid

• Taiwan UniGrid is a platform to aggregate
  computing resources across geometrically
  distributed locations and administrative
  boundaries for coordinated computations for
  various applications

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Taiwan UniGrid Mission

• Build computational grid
• Develop grid software environment
• Promote grid community
• Grid applications

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Why Taiwan UniGrid?

• Aggregating computing resources across
  geometrically distributed locations and
  administrative boundaries
• Increasing resource utilization and sharing
• Enabling the solutions for large-scale, difficult
  problems
• Collaborative design and education

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Topology
Academia Sinica
National Tsing Hua University
Taipei
National Center for High-performance Computing
Hsinchu
National Taiwan University
Chung Hua University
Hualien
Tunghai University
Taichung
National Dong Hwa University
Providence University
Tainan
Hsing Kuo University
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Software Infrastructure

• OS GNU/Linux
• Distribution Debian, RedHat, Fedora
• Compiler GNU GCC
• C Library glibc 2.3
• Grid Middleware Globus toolkit
• Scheduler Condor
• Monitor SCMS
• MPI MPICH-G2

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Current Status

• Grid Portal
• Web-based job submission
• Real time monitoring
• Broker allocates computing resource
• Inter-cluster parallel computation

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Project Webpage

• http//unigrid.nchc.org.tw/

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System Monitoring Webpage

• http//unigrid.nchc.org.tw/scmsweb/

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Project Forum

• http//pccluster.nchc.org.tw/unigrid/

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Grid Computing Development

• International Networking is essential to Grid
• Started by LCG from 2002
• Research Oriented
• Facility Computing
• Industrial Program
• International Collaboration Outreach
• Toward e-Science
• Expedite National Grid Organization/Program

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International Networking of Taiwan
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TWAREN Topology
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Research Oriented Grid Applications

• HPC over Grid (AS)
• High Energy Physics ATLAS, CMS, CDF, Belle (NTU,
  NCU, AS)
• Bioinformatics CRASA, mpiBLAST-g2 (AS, YMU)
• Digital Archives DataGrid,
• Atmospheric Science (NTU, NCU, TNU, AS)
• Biodiversity Informatics (AS, NTU, NMNS, etc),
  GBIF
• HealthGrid (TMU, AS)
• Geospatial Information Infrastructure (AS)
• Earthquake Data Center (AS)
• Earth Science? (NCU, AS)

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Facility Computing Oriented

• Access Grid (NCHC AS)
• Tele-Science (NCHC)
• Sensor Grid (NCHC)
• Eco-Grid (prototyping by NCHC)
• National Land Use Monitoring Analysis
• Structure Monitoring of Buildings for Earthquake
  Risk
• Flood Forecasting Monitoring
• SARS Grid
• 3D Imaging of Neural Structure of Fruit Fries

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LCG/EGEE Deployment Milestone

• Staffs Stationed at CERN Sept 2002
• LCG-0 deployed March 19, 2003
• EDG testbed deployed March, 2003
• ASGCCA approved June 12th, 2003
• LCG-2 deployed Feb 2, 2004
• GOC operational in Taiwan Apr 2, 2004
• GGUS operation in Taiwan May 2, 2004
• Mass Storage Service Installed July 15, 2004
• Regional Operation Center Services Jan, 2005
• EGEE Testbed Installed Mar, 2004
• Service Challenge Apr, 2004

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Contributions of Taiwan in LCG/EGEE

• Collaborate ATLAS CMS Teams in Taiwan
• Acting as Tier-1 and Tier-2 Site
• LCG/EGEE
• Production CA Services
• LCG Core Site
• 2nd Grid Operation Center (GOC)
• 2nd Global Grid User Support (GGUS) Center
• Participate LCG Technology Development
• Data Management
• Grid Technology
• Certification Testing
• Application Software
• ARDA
• 3D (Distributed Deployment of Database)
• Operation and Management

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EGEE Participation

• Joined EGEE as a non-funded member from 2004
• NA3 Training and Induction
• NA4 Application
• HealthGrid
• Diligent
• SA1 Support and Operation Management
• CIC/ROC
• gLite Testbed

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Grid/OSG Collaboration

• Becoming a formal Grid3 site in July 2004
• For CMS NTU
• For Grid3 Regional Center and General Support
  ASCC
• Grid3/OSG Testbed
• Grid3/OSG Deployment
• Operation and Management
• Interoperation

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Industrial Program

• NSC-Quanta Collaboration
• To help Quanta Blade System have best performance
  for HPC and Grid Computing
• Quanta is the largest Notebook manufacturer in
  the world
• Participants AS, NTU, NCTS, NTHU, NCHC
• Scientific Research Disciplines Material
  Science, Nano-Technology, Computational
  Chemistry, Bioinformatics, Engineering, etc.
• Performance Tuning, Grid Benchmarking

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Education and Outreach

• Encourage more research groups joining grid
  computing research and application development
• Host grid technology and application workshops
  and related tutorials in Taiwan
• About 400 attendants in the past 6 events since
  May, 2004
• Will host similar events for Asian countries in
  cooperation with EGEE NA2

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International Collaborations

• APGrid
• APAN
• LCG/EGEE
• Grid3/OSG
• GGF
• Globus
• PNC/ECAI
• PRAGMA

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Digital Archive Grid Service Architecture
Digital Archive portal / Applications
Client
Metadata Content Management
Geospatial Information System
Metadata Geospatial Reference
OGSA OGSI
GT 3.X
Grid Services
LCG 2 EDG
Replica Location Service
File Service
LCG2
Data Providers Storage Abstraction
File Systems
GridFTP
Archives
DBs
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BioInformatics Technology and Services (BITS)

• Objective
• Providing bioinformatics computing services and
  infrastructures for the National Research Program
  for Genomic Medicine (NRPGM)
• Milestones

SMD Online
Bioportal Online
2002
2003
2004
2005
July
July
Sep.
BITS team establishment
AS Campus BioGrid
AS BioCluster
AS BioPortal
Toward National BioGrid
CRASA released
Next Generation Bioportal The Implementation
Phase
Oracle Service Online
Biocluster Online
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The Next Generation Bioportal and Campus BioGrid

• Core technology
• Java and XML
• Web/Grid Services
• Advantages
• Secure Environment and Single-Sign-On
• Easy-to-deployed workflow container
• Modular and reusable analysis tool packages
• Producer-Consumer model of resource sharing
• Collaborators
• Dr. Jan-Ming Ho (IIS, AS)
• Dr. Wen-Chang Lin (IBMS, AS)
• Dr. Chen-Hsin Chen (ISS, AS)
• Dr. Y. C. Yang (Y. M. Univ.)

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Deployment of SRB for Digital Archives
Gigabit Router
KVM Switch
UNIX server
10TB Disk Array
3KVA UPS
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Deployment of SRB for Atmospheric DataBank System
Architecture
DoDS
MCat
SRB
LAS
MCat
NTU
DoDS Server
MCat MCat-Aulixiry
LAS (perlJava)
NCU
SRB Client
DoDS Client
NTHU
MCat-Aul
ASCC
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Fostering Grid Computing in Asia

• Coordinate LCG Community for better support and
  cooperation
• Education Tutorial Program at least once a year
• Hosting LCG Asia Workshop and ISGC every year
• Extending Grid Community
• Facilitate the Formation of Application Driven
  Community
• System installation, management and consultant
  service

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e-Science Services of Taiwan

• Infrastructure Development
• Grid System Deployment
• Technology Development
• Application Development
• Cross Disciplines Contents Integration
• Grid Operation and Management
• Education and Training
• User Support
• LCG/EGEE CA Services

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Involved Organizations