Computing and Information Grid Development in Thailand Sornthep Vannarat NECTEC

ISGC Taipei OUTLINE  Grid related activities in Thailand  Information Grid Initiative

Grid Related Activities in Thailand

ISGC Taipei National Grid Project  Thai Grid Group Started Dec Build researcher community for Grid applications Create Grid Computing infrastructure Recent activities  Drug Screening  Agriculture monitoring data assimilation  Meetings  New member

ISGC Taipei National Grid Project (2)  KU ’ s HPCNC proposed to Min. of ICT. in 2004 Approved with ~ $US 5.5 M in 3 yrs Starting this October  3 main components National Grid Committee National Grid Platform  One 1 TFlops cluster  Sixteen 32-node clusters National Excellence Center for Grid Computing  Immediate aim: identify key application areas

ISGC Taipei Itanium2 Cluster  Located at NECTE  32 dual processor nodes  To become a Grid resource

ISGC Taipei Itanium2 Cluster: Lesson learned  Hardware issues: Good main-board and system design Hardware defect and firmware outdated Learning curve for IA64 architecture, EFI and BMC & firmware management Heat: ~50% higher than Xeon based server  Software issues: New kernel and configuration installation in Rock cluster (modify kickstart script) NFS bug (directory containing many files) Lustre has better performance than NFS Intel compilers improve some performance of some applications

ISGC Taipei International Network Connectivity  Thai Social/Scientific Academic and Research Network (THAISARN)  2 Mbps link upgraded to 45 Mbps link  Supported by SINET project (NII)  Accessible to research projects in many universities and organizations  STARNET (Science & Technology Research Network): Min. of Science

ISGC Taipei ANSCSE-9  Annual National Symposium on Computational Science and Engineering  Statistics Participants (268) Papers (77+13)  Topics: High performance computing & Computational mathematics Computational physics Computational chemistry Computational biology

ISGC Taipei ANSCSE-9 (2)  Invited lecture on Grid Computing, Yoshio Tanaka from AIST  Website:  ANSCSE-10 in Chiangmai

ISGC Taipei Access Grid  Plan to build full room node  For international seminars and conferences  Call for collaborations: Electronics and computing technologies Material science, biotechnology and nanotechnology  Contact:

ISGC Taipei IT for Disaster Response  December 2004 Tsunami  Other threats e.g. bird flue  Information is urgently needed  Integration from different sources  Current activities: Survey for possibility and partners  Early aims: Simulations Informatics

Information Grid Initiative

ISGC Taipei Introduction  Goal: Open and flexible platform for information integration  Publicly shared information sources Government, Research, Academia Etc.  Sharing methods Web Pages (Static) Web Applications (Dynamic) Web Services Information Grid  Team: 4 people + 3 friends

ISGC Taipei Components  Marker Directory  Information Broker  Discovery Service  Marker Description Language  Architecture of Information Source

ISGC Taipei Marker  Describe hierarchy, specification, characteristic of information  Information’s blue print  Defined by Marker Description Language (MDL)  To be stored in Marker Directory Marker Information Standard Data Type AgriculturalMedicalMeteorology DrugDisease Temperature integerfloatstring postcode price

ISGC Taipei Marker  Attributed Marker Description classification, hierarchy, publisher, human readable description Information Description sharing policy, metadata Data Elements structure of Information Marker Description Information Description Information Description Data Elements

ISGC Taipei Architecture of Information Sources

ISGC Taipei Progress and Plan  Design Framework  Information Broker MetBroker WS Grid Services based  Marker Directory Services  Discovery Services

ISGC Taipei Conclusion  Overview of Grid related activities Access Grid: co-seminar ANSCSE-10 (March’06 in Chiengmai)  Information Grid Initiative Comments and collaboration Thank you!