The Development of the Grid in China

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The Development of the Grid in China

• Guangwen Yang
• Department of Computer Science
• Tsinghua University
• ygw_at_tsinghua.edu.cn
• Jun. 11,2007

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Grid Computing in China

• 4 Major Grid Projects
• CNGrid (China National Grid, MOST)
• ChinaGrid(MOE)
• NSFC Grid (NSF)
• ShanghaiGrid (Shanghai Province)
• Grid Computing in China
• Journal of Grid Computing (2004)2193-206

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Overview of CNGrid

• Key project supported by the National High-Tech
  RD Program (the 863 program)
• Earliest and largest Grid project in China
• 4-year effort
• May 2002 to Dec. 2005
• 100 million RMB government funding from the MOST
• More than 2? associated funds from local
  government, application organizations, and
  industry

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CNGrid infrastructure

• Major nodes
• CNIC, CAS, Beijing
• Shanghai Supercomputer Center, Shanghai
• Standard nodes
• Tsinghua University, Beijing
• Institute of Applied Physics and computational
  Mathematics, Beijing
• University of Science and Technology of China,
  Hefei
• Xian Jiaotong University, Xian
• NUDT, Changsha
• Hong Kong University, Hongkong
• CNGrid Operation Center
• The CNGrid Operation Center, CNIC, CAS

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CNGrid nodes locations (1)
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CNGrid resources

• Computing resource
• 18 TFlops
• Disk storage
• gt200TB
• Application software
• Databases

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SCCAS

• Equipped with Lenovo DeepComp 6800, 5.324TFlops
• Average utilization 86
• Applications
• 155 registered users
• Supporting more than 120 important projects

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SSC

• Equipped with Dawning 4000A, 10.2 TFlops
• Utilization gt80
• About 150 users

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CNGrid GOS architecture
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Grid Software CNGrid GOS

• CNGrid GOS 2.0 deployed on 8 nodes
• Support heterogeneous HPCs Dawning 4000A,
  DeepComp 6800, Galaxy, etc.
• Support multiple platformsUnix, Linux, Windows,
  Apache, WebSphere, etc.

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Support application Grids
Manufacture Simulation
Bioinformatics
Geo-survey
Weather forecast
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CNGrid Applications

• Applications from selected areas
• Resource and Environment
• NGG, DFG, SeisGrid
• Research
• SDG, BAGrid, DDG
• Services
• CMAG, TIG
• Manufacturing
• AviGrid, SimGrid

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National Geological survey Grid NGG

• Undertaken by China National Geological Survey
  Bureau
• Nation-wide productive grid
• Data exchange and sharing by services
• Grid-enabled resource evaluation
• Shorten the evaluation time from 3 years to 3
  months
• Achievements
• North China ground water resources evaluation
• Mineral resources evaluation

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NGG environment
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Drug discovery grid DDG

• Undertaken by Shanghai Institute of Materia
  Medica CAS
• Chemical Compound screening for new drug
  discovery
• Speed up the process by computer simulation
• Higher accuracy
• Using HPC in P2P mode
• New drug for diabetes is under development and
  will enter clinic testing

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DDG Portal
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Task allocation in DDG
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Aviation Grid AviGrid

• Undertaken by AVIC II of China
• Supporting distributed design, simulation, and
  manufacturing
• CAD software sharing
• Data exchange and sharing
• Computing resource sharing

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AviGrid
Aviation grid platform composed of three clusters
in different locations
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AviGrid
Windows
Windows
Automatically locating resource when submitting
jobs
Linux
Windows
AIX
Linux
Linux
Windows
Windows
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AviGrid
MultiCluster
WAN
Licence pool
GLB
Software sharing
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AviGrid Topological optimization
After optimization
before optimization
Reduced skin
Added skin
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The new 863 key project

• Period 2006-2010, launched in Oct. 2006
• 640 million (RMB) from the MOST and at least
  equal amount of matching funding from different
  organizations
• Major efforts
• High productivity Computer development
• CNGrid development
• CNGrid GOS continuous development
• 12-15 Grid applications

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Objectives

• Capabilities in HPC design and manufacturing
• Innovation on key Grid technologies
• Mature and robust Grid software
• Service oriented Grid infrastructure
• Productive Grid applications

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High productivity Computer development

• Two phase development
• Two 100TFlops machines in the first phase (By the
  end of 2008)
• One 1000Tflops in the second phase (TBD)
• Installation in CNGrid Major sites
• Promoting HPC and grid applications

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Grid software development

• Major tasks
• Robust grid system software
• Data grid software
• Grid workflow
• Grid user interface
• Grid security
• Grid management
• Deployment over CNGrid
• Supporting various grid applications

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Developing Grid service environment

• Upgrading of CNGrid resources
• increased to 12 nodes
• Aggregated computing power of 300TF
• 1PB storage
• Grid monitoring and management
• Strengthen CNGrid operation center
• Management regulation
• CNGrid will become infrastructure for various
  applications

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Grid applications

• Choose important domains, support key business
• Demonstrate grid technologies
• Achieve productive operations

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Challenges

• Robust and reliable grid infrastructure
• Mature and robust grid software
• Grid economical and Business model
• Data Grid technologies
• Grid management
• Grid programming model languages
• Grid application development environment
• Grid user interface
• Gridization of traditional applications
• Grid standards

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CNGrid (2006-2010)

• HPC Systems
• 100 Tflop/s by 2008,
• Pflop/s by 2010?
• Grid Software CNGrid GOS
• Merge with international efforts
• Emphasize matureness
• CNGrid Environment
• Nodes, Centers, mgt
• Applications
• Research
• Resource Environment
• Manufacturing
• Services

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CNGrid nodes locations (2)
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Present Progress

• 10 nodes
• 8 applications
• Meteorological, Science Data,
  High Speed Railway, Drug discovery, Computational
  chemistry, astronomy, Chinese medicine
• CNGrid Software

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Cooperation with UK and EU FP6

• OMII UK OMII China, Data Grid
• EUChinaGrid
• Interoperability between CNGrid GOS and gLite
• IPv6 support
• Application in HEPH, Biology and bioinformatics
• EchoGrid
• Grid roadmap
• BRIDGE
• Interoperability between CNGrid GOS and GRIA
• Grid applications Aerospace, Phama, Meteo
• XtreemOS
• Network centric OS
• OMII-Europe
• Grid middleware

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Thank you!