1. Computing and Information Grid Development in Thailand Sornthep Vannarat NECTEC

2. ISGC Taipei 2005 2 OUTLINE  Grid related activities in Thailand  Information Grid Initiative

3. Grid Related Activities in Thailand

4. ISGC Taipei 2005 4 National Grid Project  Thai Grid Group Started Dec. 2000 Build researcher community for Grid applications Create Grid Computing infrastructure Recent activities  Drug Screening  Agriculture monitoring data assimilation  Meetings  New member http://www.thaigrid.net

5. ISGC Taipei 2005 5 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

6. ISGC Taipei 2005 6 Itanium2 Cluster  Located at NECTE  32 dual processor nodes  To become a Grid resource

7. ISGC Taipei 2005 7 Itanium2 Cluster: Lesson learned  Hardware issues: Good main-board and system design Hardware defect and firmware outdated Learning curve for IA64 architecture, EFI and BMC & firmware management Heat: ~50% higher than Xeon based server  Software issues: New kernel and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

8. ISGC Taipei 2005 8 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

9. ISGC Taipei 2005 9 ANSCSE-9  Annual National Symposium on Computational Science and Engineering  Statistics 200-300 Participants (268) 100-150 Papers (77+13)  Topics: High performance computing & Computational mathematics Computational physics Computational chemistry Computational biology

10. ISGC Taipei 2005 10 ANSCSE-9 (2)  Invited lecture on Grid Computing, Yoshio Tanaka from AIST  Website: http://csep.hpcc.nectec.or.th  ANSCSE-10 in Chiangmai

11. ISGC Taipei 2005 11 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: sornthep@nectec.or.th

12. ISGC Taipei 2005 12 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

13. Information Grid Initiative

14. ISGC Taipei 2005 14 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

15. ISGC Taipei 2005 15 Components  Marker Directory  Information Broker  Discovery Service  Marker Description Language  Architecture of Information Source

16. ISGC Taipei 2005 16 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

17. ISGC Taipei 2005 17 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

18. ISGC Taipei 2005 18 Architecture of Information Sources

19. ISGC Taipei 2005 19 Progress and Plan  Design Framework  Information Broker MetBroker WS Grid Services based  Marker Directory Services  Discovery Services

20. ISGC Taipei 2005 20 Conclusion  Overview of Grid related activities Access Grid: co-seminar ANSCSE-10 (March’06 in Chiengmai)  Information Grid Initiative Comments and collaboration Thank you!