1. Ramakrishnan S, C-DAC
04-Dec-2004
Welcome
GARUDA : A National Initiative of Government of India in Grid Computing S. Ramakrishnan 1

2. Presentation Outline Background Indian Initiatives C-DAC & PoC Garuda
Grid Partners
Road ahead 2

3. Presentation Outline Background Indian Initiatives C-DAC & PoC Garuda
Grid Partners
Discussions 3

4. Knowledge Paradigm
High Performance Computing (Petaflop by 2010 and beyond)
Development, acquisition as well as creative use scaling up momentum
Petabytes of storages and beyond
From Remote Sensing Satellites, MST Radars & Global Scientific mission forums demanding tremendous storage
High speed Networks (Terabits per second by 2010 and beyond)
Key enabler to support engineering data and bandwidth intensive applications
Grid Computing - supporting distributing computing, Problem solving environments and collaboration tools
Already identified as an most important area and PoC Garuda under implementation by C-DAC

5. Knowledge Paradigm (Contd…)
Data Centre and Web Services
Emergence of world class of telecom infrastructure and success of IT sector augurs well for a host of applications sector from Bio-informatics to E-governance
Knowledge Management tools
Host of with over 300 of Fortune 500 and all top Global ICT MNCs setting up development centers and increasingly positioning of research labs in India, as also BPO, KPO centers and VC funding, GRID Marketing and innovation is happening.
Secure Cyber Infrastructure
Demands for trusted and reliable infrastructure service is increasing.
Multilingual Computing
With 22 official languages touching over 90% of non-english speaking people
Broadband and mobile wireless
Fastest growing in India, permeating to villages

6. Presentation to Internet2 & Worldbank
Presentation Outline
Background
Indian Initiatives
C-DAC & PoC Garuda
Grid Partners
Discussions
06-Sept-2005
Presentation to Internet2 & Worldbank 6

7. Networking, Grid Computing and applications/sectoral domains
Indian Initiatives
Networking, Grid Computing and applications/sectoral domains
ERNET
IQNET
PoC GARUDA

8. ERNET: Education & Research Network
Started as a collaborative initiative of 8 Premier Institutions (5 IITs, IISc, NCST, DOE) by Department of Electronics (Now Department of Information Technology), Government of India in 1986 with UNDP funding
Research and development in computer networking
Built campus LANs, established WAN (terrestrial and satellite) and first connection from India to Internet (UUNET) in February ’89.

9. ERNET: Education & Research Network (Contd…)
Today
13 Point of presence (POPs) at premier E&R institutions in the country.
STM-1(155Mbps)Ready Fibre-Optic Backbone
Satellite Hub in C-band (Bangalore)
Beaming 3 Transponder of 36 MHz
IP Multicasting
Webcasting
Channel for Distance Learning / Video Broadcasting
Secure Infrastructure
Intrusion Detection Server
Firewall
Intruder Alert Manager
Gateway Antivirus Server
Anti Spam Control
Sniffer
Lab dedicated to Network education and training.

10. Internet connectivity being provided by ERNET
User Base
172 Universities ( )
245 R&D Institutions ( ≥ 500)
52 Engineering colleges (800)
251 Navodya and Govt Schools
274 ICAR Institutions
322 Other educational users/organizations.
Installed Base
559 TDM/TDMA and 77 SCPC and DAMA VSATs
14 Radio Links and 173 Leased Lines.

11. INTERNET connectivity under various schemes
AICTE Net
Connectivity to AICTE recognized colleges and regional centers. A total of 40 institutions connected. Very Large potential
UGC Infonet
MOU signed on 4th April 2003
152 universities connected over ERNET backbone.- Scalable network
Multimedia capabilities for video conferencing and distance learning
ICAR Net
Network to be implemented in two phases.
A total of 274 institutions have been connected. Network to support applications such as VOIP,IP,FAX, Video conferencing.
NVS Net
Connectivity provided by VSATS to:
NVS Head quarters at New Delhi,100 schools have been

12. ERNET - Geographical Distribution

13. Multi-Gigabit pan-European Research Network
Univ. of Jammu
Panjab Univ. Chandigarh
Delhi
(DU)
Univ. of Raj.
Jaipur
IIT Guwahati
AMU
IIT Kanpur
CAT Indore
VECC
Kolkata
34 Mbps IPLC
Mumbai
IUCAA Pune
IOP
Bhubaneshwar
(TIFR,BARC)
Univ. of Hyderabad
Multi-Gigabit pan-European Research Network
Connecting 32 European Countries and 28 NRENs
Backbone capacity in the range of: 34Mb/s-10Gb/s
IIT Chennai
ERNET PoPs
IISC Banglore
Universities / R&D Institutions
proposed to be connected in
Ist Phase
Austria
Denmark
Croatia
Lithuania
Poland AT DK HR LT PL
Additional Links Proposed
Belgium
Estonia
Hungary
Luxembourg
Portugal BE EE HU LU PT
Switzerland
Spain
Ireland
Latvia
Romania
ERNET Backbone Links CH ES IE LV RO
Cyprus
Finland
Israel
Malta
Sweden CY FI IL MT SE
Czech Republic
France
Iceland
Netherlands
Slovenia
Turkey CZ FR IS NL SI TR
Germany
Greece
Italy
Norway
Slovakia
United Kingdom DE GR IT NO SK UK

14. IQNET : National QoS Test bed (2005-2007)
Collaborative effort between C-DAC, ERNET, IITs (Madras, Bombay, Delhi & Kharagpur)
QoS Test bed for experimenting with research ideas
Research activities
Measurement Initiative
VoIP Initiative
Policy based QoS Initiative
Outcomes expected would include
Providing QoS in the Internet
Interplay with non QoS networked applications
Control and Management of QoS in IP networks

15. IQNET : Envisaged Connectivity
Creation of Local test beds connected to the QoS WAN Test bed
QoS WAN Test bed will overlay on existing ERNET backbone
QoS test bed traffic and regular ERNET traffic logically separated by running them over two separate VPNs
Mumbai (P)
Pune
(P)
Kanpur
(6PE)
Kolkata
Univ. of
Hyd
IIT Chennai (P)
Delhi (P)
IIT Delhi
IIT Mumbai
IISC (6PE)
Banglore
IIT
Kharagpur
CDAC
ERNET Delhi
IISC
IIT Chennai
LAN
QoS -
Net Link P
Provider Router
6PE
IPv4/IPv6 Enabled
Provider Edge
Backbone Link
MPLS Cloud

16. IQNET : Research Areas in the QoS Testbed
Development and deployment of technologies and solutions for distance education
Experiment to provide application QoS by providing priority, RSVP and IntServ architecture
Non Co-operative and Co-operative Measurement and Characterization
IP Telephony applications
Protocol support for Mobile Wireless Endpoints

17. IQNET : Applications Robotic control applications
Distributed simulation and CAD conferencing
Applications end point API support for QoS on IPv6
Telemedicine and Real Time guided clinical investigations
Deployment of IPTV, H.323 and SIP based telephony and Content Delivery Network

18. IQNET : Status
Measurement Initiative : PingER (Ping End-to-End Reporting) Collaboration
Associated with SLAC (Stanford University Linear Accelerator Centre) since May 06, 2004
Internet End-to-end Performance Measurement (IEPM) project to monitor end-to-end performance of Internet links
Metrics Measured:
response time (rtt(ms))
variability of the response time both short term (time scale of seconds) and longer,
packet loss percentages
and the lack of reachability;
Content Distribution Initiative: Planet-lab Collaboration
Experimentations explored
MPLS for Linux is a open source effort to create a set of MPLS signaling protocols and an MPLS forwarding plane for the Linux operating system
Simulation of MPLS using NS-2

19. IQNET : Status (Contd…)
Started as a remote node and enhanced to monitoring node (our’s is one of the 37 monitoring nodes across the globe)
Monitoring 59 IPs across the globe
Sends 100 and 1000 byte icmp packets periodically
Statistics are stored at our location and reports are generated
SLAC maintains the central database

20. Presentation to Internet2 & Worldbank
Presentation Outline
Background
Indian Initiatives
C-DAC & PoC Garuda
Grid Partners
Discussions
06-Sept-2005
Presentation to Internet2 & Worldbank 20

21. About C-DAC - I
10 Locations
14 Labs
2000 members

22. About C-DAC – II R&D areas
High Performance Computing & Grid Computing
Scientific & Engineering Applications
Multilingual Computing, AAI, Speech Processing &
Software Technologies, OSS, Multimedia
ICT for masses
Digital Broadband, Wireless Systems &
Network Technologies
e-Security Technologies and Services
Power Electronics, Real-Time Systems &
Embedded Systems, VLSI/ ANSI Design
Geomatics, Health Informatics, e-Governance &
Agri Electronics
Education & Training &
e-Learning Technologies & Services

23. High Performance Computing
Hardware
Architecture
High-Performance System Design
VLSI Design
System Area Networks (SAN)
Switches
Engineering
System Software & Utilities
Compilers
Libraries
Tools
Benchmarking
Application Software
Scientific & Engineering
Business & Commercial
Advanced Computing, Marketing and Solutions Group
HPC Systems & Technology Consultation
Design and Delivery of HPC facilities and services
End user education and training
Partnering and collaborations

24. High Performance Computing
Garuda – Grid Computing
Social Computing with participatory approach
Applications Development
High Speed Networks
Reconfigurable Computing
Testing and Certification
HPC Solutions and Training
2002
2007
PARAM Padma
Viable HPC business computing environment
1998
1994
PARAM 10000
Platform for User community to interact/ collaborate
1991
PARAM 8000
Technology Denial
MORE

25. Vision of Grid Computing
Ramakrishnan S, C-DAC
04-Dec-2004
Vision of Grid Computing
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Gadgets (Sensors, ……)
People
Security
Management
Robustness
Scalability
Inter-operability
Device
Electronics
Contents : Data Engineering, Data Management
Generic
Applications
& Tools
Domain Specific Applications & Tools
Distributed, Interconnected, Seemless, Multi-vendor
Computing & Resources Fabric:
Hardware, Software, Tools, Data, Instruments
Wireless
Wireline

26. Indian Grid Computing Initiative
Proof of Concept (PoC) GARUDA phase
Precursor to the National Grid Computing Initiative (GRID Garuda)
Project Duration of 12 months (April 2005 upto March 2006), starting with Networking Fabric in Collaboration with ERNET, India
Major Deliverables
Technology Development & Research in Grid Computing
Nation-wide high-speed communication fabric
Grid Resources
Deployment of Select applications of National Importance
Grid Strategic User Group
Implemented by C-DAC

27. Indian Grid Computing Initiative
Proof of Concept (PoC) GARUDA phase (Contd..)
17 locations till date, 100 Mbps connections with MPLS backbone, configured for peak load of 2.48 Gbps
Planned for multidiscipline academic, research and Engineering applications with some visible demonstratable applications to trigger progression to main phase (Disaster Management and Bioinformatics)
Teraflops of Computing power (including existing 1 Teraflop with C-DAC and planned 5 Teraflops early next year), 100s of terabytes data from various Institutions made available to Grid Parteners Community
Intended to migrate smoothly to the main Grid Project from 2006, to target/address to variety of sectors from basic sciences to major applications

28. GRID GARUDA PoC Components
Technology Development and Research
Communication Fabric
Computational Resources
Applications

29. Technology Development & Research
Ramakrishnan S, C-DAC
04-Dec-2004
Technology Development & Research
Technology Deliverables :
Architecture & Deployment,
Grid Access Mechanisms,
Application Frameworks,
Problem Solving & Program
Development Environments,
Grid Middleware and Security,
Grid Management and Monitoring
Achievements so far :
Research Initiatives of Integrated Development Environments,
Resource Brokers & Meta Schedulers, Mobile Agent Framework,
Semantic Grid Services (with MIT Chennai)

30. Ramakrishnan S, C-DAC
04-Dec-2004
Communication Fabric
An ultra-high speed multi services communication fabric connecting across 17 cities in the country to be deployed jointly by C-DAC & ERNET.
Ethernet based High Bandwidth capacity, Scalable over entire geographic area with High levels of reliability, fault tolerance and redundancy.
Current progress: L2 VPN at 100 Mbps Connectivity between C-DAC, Pune and C-DAC, Bangalore.

31. Module and Cities Module I Module II Module III
Pune, Bangalore, Delhi, Kolkata, Chennai, Ahmedabad, Mumbai, Hyderabad
Module II
Roorke, Guwahati, Kharagpur, Thiruvananthapuram, Kanpur
Module III
Allahabad, Chandigarh, Lucknow, Varanasi

32. Ramakrishnan S, C-DAC
04-Dec-2004
Grid Resources
Objective is to Provide heterogeneous resources in the Grid including Compute, Data, Software and Scientific Instruments Deploy Test facilitates for Grid related research and development activities
Deliverables Grid enablement of C-DAC resources at Bangalore and Pune, Aggregation of Partner Resources Setting up of PoC Test Bed and Grid Labs at Bangalore, Pune, Hyderabad and Chennai
Aggregation of Resources: Prospective partners for grid resources have been identified & Finalization of specific details under progress
Setting up of PoC Test Bed & Grid Labs: Grid Lab equipment has been received and testing under progress, C-DAC to also set up a grid lab at SAC, Ahmedabad

33. Applications of Importance for PoC Garuda
Disaster Management
Application on Garuda
Objective: Enable applications of national importance.
TeraScale Applications
Weather and Climate modeling
Seismic Data processing
Computational Fluid Dynamics
Structural Mechanics
Basic Sciences
Grid-enabled Applications
Bioinformatics
Disaster Management
Data Integration & Sharing
Earthquake Research
Cryptanalysis
PARAM Padma at Bangalore
ASAR flight data transmission from nearby Airport
S A C Ahmedabad
at Pune
User
Agencies
GRID Communication Fabric
High Speed Commn

34. Ramakrishnan S, C-DAC
04-Dec-2004

35. Presentation to Internet2 & Worldbank
Presentation Outline
Background
Indian Initiatives
C-DAC & PoC Garuda
Grid Partners
Discussions
06-Sept-2005
Presentation to Internet2 & Worldbank 35

36. Collaborators & Partners : PoC Garuda
C-DAC Centers (10 Locations)
Centre for Development of Advanced Computing at :-
Pune,
Bangalore,
Delhi,
Hyderabad,
Mumbai,
Chennai,
Kolkata,
Mohali,
Noida,
Thiruvananthpuram
Academia
Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore
Madras Institute of Technology, Chennai
University of Pune, Pune
Central University, Hyderabad
Indian Institute of Technology at :-
Kharagpur
Kanpur
Delhi
Mumbai
Chennai &
Guwahati
Guwahati University, Guwahati
Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology, Allahabad
Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi
Institute of Technology, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi
Research Labs
National Chemical Laboratory, Pune
Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Mumbai
Space Applications Centre, Ahmedabad
Institute for Plasma Research, Ahmedabad
Physical Research Laboratory, Ahmedabad
Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics / Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre, Chennai
Regional Cancer Centre, Chennai
Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre, Chennai
Institutions
Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, Bangalore
Indian Institute of Astrophysics, Pune
National Center for Radio Astrophysics, Pune
Centre for DNA Fingerprinting and Diagnostics
Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai
Institute of Microbial Technology, Chandigarh
Harish-Chandra Research Institute, Allahabad
Central Drug Research Institute, Lucknow
Sanjay Gandhi Post Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences, Lucknow
Government Collaborators
ERNET India

37. PoC GARUDA Collaborations - In place..
Ramakrishnan S, C-DAC
04-Dec-2004
PoC GARUDA Collaborations - In place..
SAC, Ahmedabad : Collaboration on Disaster Management and Grid Middleware
Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore : Collaboration with Centre for Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences (CAOS) Department for Simulations on GRID Garuda with coupled atmosphere-ocean-land model
MIT, Chennai : Collaboration on Grid Middleware Development, Development of Front End Tools for Grid Services
IIT, Mumbai: Collaboration & MoU for porting of CFD solution
University of Pune : In application Areas of Quantum Chemistry, Materials Modeling, Bioinformatics
NCL, Pune : Collaboration in the field of Multi-scale Modeling & Simulation, Large-scale Data Analysis & Mining, HPC & Grid Tools

38. Presentation to Internet2 & Worldbank
Where we stand..
Grid Computing and High Speed Networking: Main Phase of C-DAC’s Grid Computing project connecting major 200+ Universities, major 300+ R&D/S&T Labs with a backbone of 10+ Gbps, international connectivity of 10 Gbps, 50+ teraflops of computing power, petaflops of storage, major mission and sectoral applications
Planned collaboration in areas of Application, Middleware and Mission Critical Use for Institutions/Industrial R & D units/labs to the above, with dependable, consistent, pervasive, secure and inexpensive access to computational resources
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39. Mausam GRID
Indian

40. Coupled GCM-RCM Simulations on Mausam GRID
Advantages:
General Circulation Models (GCM’s) and Regional Climate Models (RCM’s) can run on machines that are physically distributed
Both the models need not be ported to the same platforms
The models can be owned by different organizations

41. Mausam GRID Application Drivers: Monsoon Forecasting using GCM
Monsoon Rainfall Downscaling using coupled atmosphere-ocean system
Extended range monsoon prediction – multimodel simulations data grid
Coupled regional atmosphere-air quality models

42. Grid Computing for Bioinformatics
Ramakrishnan S, C-DAC
04-Dec-2004
Grid Computing for Bioinformatics
More than 276 genomes have been sequenced and genome sequencing of 1220 organisms are at various levels of completion.
Information retrieved from genome data can prove invaluable for pharmaceutical industries, for in silico drug target identification and new drug discovery.
The enormity of data and complexity of algorithms make the above tasks computationally demanding, necessitating the effective use of computational resources beyond those available to researchers at a single location
Grid technologies enable sharing of bioinformatics data from different sites by creating a virtual organization of the data.

43. Earthquake Observatory
Earthquake Research Grid
Main Features -
This will connect all the major Earthquake Engineering centers and some identified high performance computer centers of India with high speed network.
This will maintain a database of the digital earthquake data from different earthquake observatories and experimental results from Earthquake laboratories.
This will host all the standard software those are necessary to analyze, process and visualize earthquake data.
Earthquake researchers from remote places can access this facility through web browsers.
The algorithms developed by the EE researchers will also be plugged into this facility and make it available to the other researchers.
Data Server
Internet
User-2
User-3
User-1
User-4
Software Server
Compute nodes
Earthquake Observatory
EE Labs

44. Thank You! www.cdac.in Advanced Computing for Human Advancement
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