Country Update Grid Activities in Thailand

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Country UpdateGrid Activities in Thailand

• APAN/PRAGMA 2003
• 21-24 January 2003
• Fukuoka, Japan
• Piyawut Srichaikul
• NECTEC, THAILAND

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Thailand Grid Activities

• ThaiGrid
• The collaboration project to building a grid
  infrastructure and applications in Thailand (KU,
  KMITNB, SUT, AIT, WU)
• 5 shared computing resources
• Operate on ThaiSARN III funded by NECTEC
• URL http//www.thaigrid.net
• NECTEC
• Funding (Research grant, ThaiSARN III)
• RD

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ThaiGrid Current Status

• Thai Access Grid
• KU has one full AGnode and one mobile
  experimental node
• KMITNB 1 experimental system
• SUT 1 experimental system
• WU 1 experimental system
• Applications
• CFD Grid (KU/SUT) funded by NECTEC ( under
  development)
• GAMESS (KU)
• Future plan to link with SDSC ( 2003)

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ThaiGrid Current Status (Cont.)

• Tools
• SCEGrid scheduler (KU)
• Batch scheduler running on globus
• Using now on Apgrid test bed
• Monitoring (KU)
• Site- observer.cpe.ku.ac.th
• Software scmsweb, Grid observer
• Omega simple session manager for AG (KU)

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ThaiGrid Map
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NECTEC Grid Status

• Infrastructure
• 12 nodes Linux cluster (2 x AMD-Athlon 2 GHz, 512
  MB each, 1 Gbps), 600 GB storage (RAID-5), sun
  grid engine, Globus 2.X (under testing)
• ThaiSARN III

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ThaiSARN III
Last update Sep 27, 2002
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NECTEC Grid Status (cont.)

• Applications
• Spatial data visualization for GIS (web services
  data grid)
• Abinit material simulation SW

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NECTEC Grid Status (cont.)

• Tools
• Hook Utility to create grid-enabled web service
  application
• Visual editor for assembling Web Services
• Control the execution of Web Services (Flow
  Control)
• Create the Extended WSFL (Web Service
  Flow-control Language)
• Create the Java class for new service

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NECTEC RD Grid Roadmap
Spatial data visualization for GIS
Public service
Abinit material property calculation
Device simulation using FEM
Internal service
Applications
Q1
Q2
Q3
Q4
2004
2003
Cached FS
Infrastructure
Connecting to ThaiGrid and APGrid (Globus 2.x)
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Thank You