1. PRAGMA New Membership Application
Oct 20-22, Hyderabad, India
The College of Computer Science and Technology, Jilin University, China
Prof. Chunguang Zhou, Dean
Dr. Xiaohui Wei

2. Contents A brief introduction to Jilin University
About The College of Computer Science and Technology
Recent collaborative research activities with PRAGMA members or others in Grid Computing

3. Jilin University
Founded in 1946, ranked among the top 10 key universities in China
One of the key research universities which is directly administered by the Ministry of Education
Sponsored by the government through key national projects such as “211”, “985”, and others
Offering a whole series of programs that cover all of the twelve academic categories:
philosophy, economics, law, literature, education, history, science, engineering, agriculture, medicine, management and military sciences.

4. Located in Changchun, the capital city of Jilin Province, north-east of China

5. Jilin University is the biggest university of China
Jilin University is the biggest university of China, which has
63,000 fulltime students (including 17,000 graduate students)
More than 6000 faculty members
128 undergraduate programs
245 master degree programs
143 doctoral programs
27 postdoctoral programs
5 national key labs
8 national bases for basic scientific research and training
7 key labs sponsored by Ministry of Education
16 members of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and/or Chinese Academy of Engineering

6. The university has 9 campuses in the city, the total campus area is about 1480 acres (The residents in Changchun say that the city is located in the campuses of Jilin University)

7. One of the Lecture Halls

8. Physics and Chemistry Building

9. One of the Student Dining Halls

10. One of the Stadiums

11. Student Soccer Team

12. Internationalized Atmosphere
Established worldwide exchange and cooperation ties with more than 130 universities/colleges and research institutes in 40 countries or districts
Over 1400 long-term or short-term foreign students are currently enrolled

13. The dormitory for International students

14. The College of Computer Science and Technology, Jilin University
Founded in 1976 by Prof. Xianghao Wang, a world famous mathematician, member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences
One of the earliest institutions that endeavor to research on computer science and technology in China.
Its main fields of interest include Artificial Intelligence, Distributed System, Computer Network, Intelligent Programming, Automated Reasoning, Knowledge Engineering, Agent System, Software Engineering and Software Automation, Computer Graphics, etc.

15. The college is one of the largest computer colleges in the country
In May 2001, the former College of Computer Science and Technology, Jilin University merged with
Department of Computer Engineering and Technology, Jilin University of Technology
Department of Computer Science, Changchun University of Science and Technology
Department of Computer Science, Changchun Post and Telecommunication Institute
Currently, the college has
2719 undergraduates, 772 postgraduates and 208 doctoral candidates.
194 faculty members, including 39 professors, 50 associate professors
one member of Chinese Academy of Sciences

16. One of the top-tier institutions in China
In 1981, the college became one of the first institutions authorized to offer Computer Software PhD program in China
In 1985, the college became one of the first institutions authorized to found the post-doctoral research center
In 1987, Computer Software program offered by the college was honored as one of the Key Disciplines of the nation
In 1993, the Open Lab of Symbolic Computation and Knowledge Engineering directly administered by the State Education Commission was founded.

17. One of the top-tier institutions in China
In 1999, the Key Lab of Computer Communications directly sponsored by the Ministry of Information Industry was established.
In 2002, the discipline of Computer and Software Science and Information Processing was funded by national “Tenth five-year plan” 211 project as key discipline.
In 2002, the discipline of Computer Software and Theory was honored as the Key Discipline of the nation again.
In 2004, the college was authorized to found S&T Innovation Platform of ‘Computing and Software Science’ funded by the national “985” project.

18. Recent research activities
Projects
In the recent five years, the college has finished 110 projects supported by CNSF, national “973” high-tech program, national “863” high-tech program and so on, the funds obtained are about RMB 60 million Yuan in total.
There are 45 under-going projects funded by government, the total funding is about 45 million RMB Yuan.

19. Recent research activities
Awards
In the past five years, the college has won more than 20 awards from the government, like
Second Prize of National Science and Technology Progress Award
Special Prize by Electronic Ministry
“Ninth five-year plan” National Key Science and Technology Projects Award
First prize for Jilin Province Science and Technology Progress,
Etc.
Publications
More than 900 papers
24 books/monographs

20. International Collaboration
Our college has established collaborative relationships with many universities and institutes like:
Research Center of Cooperation, West Virginian University, USA.
Research Institute of High Performance Computation, Singapore
Department of Mechanical Engineering, National University of Singapore
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of British Columbia, Canada
Platform Computing Inc, Canada
UCSD, US
AIST, Japan
Automation & Computer Aided Engineering Dept, Chinese University of Hong Kong,
etc

21. International Collaboration
The college has signed agreements to establish people training programs with world famous IT companies, such as
IBM, Microsoft, ORACLE, SUN, HP, Ricoh and BEA, etc.
International Conferences
In July, 2005, the college hosted the International Bioinformatics Workshop; more than 200 representatives from abroad and China attended the conference
etc

22. Recent Research Activities on Grid Computing
The College started its research on grid computing since 2000, however, the research on high performance computing dated back to 1980.
The College started to collaborate with UCSD (US), AIST (Japan) and Platform Inc (Ca) from 2003 in the fields of grid computing and middleware.
From 2004 to 2005, working with Platform the College delivered the WSRF based CSF (Community Scheduler Framework) as a contribution component of GT4.
To provide a grid test bed for data-intensive applications like iGap, JLU, UCSD and AIST are working at integrating meta-scheduler (CSF), local scheduler (LSF/SGE) and Gfarm.

23. Recent Research Activities on Grid Computing
From 2005, JLU started to get involved in the Pacific Rim Undergraduate Experience by sending students and faculty members to UCSD.
Another on-going co-research project between JLU and Platform is aiming at developing a grid operating system prototype.
Project Funded by CNSF
To research the methods to monitor and evaluate the execution performance of grid applications

24. Community Scheduler Framework 4.0 – CSF4
What is CSF
Full name: Community Scheduler Framework
CSF is a meta-scheduler working at grid level
The first version of CSF, CSF3, was developed based on GT3-OGSI, contributed by Platform (a CA software company/LSF)
CSF4 is the GT4-WSRF compliant version of CSF, providing the same functionalities as CSF3
CSF is an open source project and can be accessed at (the cvs mainline code is csf4)
The development team of CSF4 is from Jilin University

25. Community Scheduler Framework 4.0 – CSF4
CSF4 is a contribution to GT4

26. CSF4 – Architecture

27. Implementing Data Aware Scheduling in Gfarm using LSF Plug-in Mechanism
Motivations
Data-intensive jobs are drawing more attentions
iGap - UCSD/NBCR (Dr. Wilfred W. Li)
Gfarm – (a data grid middleware , AIST Dr. Osamu,)
Gfarm is a global parallel file system and provides a single file system image to the users
Like most data grid software, gfarm needs a job queuing and scheduling mechanism
Manual method to locate data-affinity hosts and manage data is not scalable (Gfarm – gfrun/mpirun, without job queuing)
Conflicts between users
Load imbalance

28. Data aware Scheduling Job scheduling (move job to data)
Put jobs in the queues
Find the best hosts for gfarm jobs
Constraint the number of running jobs to access a data replica
Data management (move data to jobs)
create new data replicas when the job load is high
Find the host location based on job resource requirement
Avoid generating multiple large data replicas within one scheduling session
delete the obsolete data replicas automatically

29. Using the LSF scheduler plug-in mechanism
No need to write a job scheduler from scratch
Be able to work with other scheduler policies like FCFS, fair-share, preemption, backfill, etc.

30. Integrating meta-scheduler (CSF), local scheduler (LSF/SGE) and Gfarm
WS-GRAM
Pre-WS-GRAM
Rocks-110.sdsc.edu
SGE6
Fork
LSF6
Rocks-32.sdsc.edu
LSF
SGE5.3
gabd
Gfarm jobs
Local Cluster
Remote Cluster

31. Plan For Near Future
Continue working on the integration of CSF, local schedulers and gfarm together with UCSD/AIST etc.
Add more features to CSF
support array job
support work flow (job dependency)
support web service jobs
support resource reservations

32. Apply PRAGMA Membership
To build the strong collaborative relationships with world leading institutes and universities is a high priority of our college
We are going to enhance and extend the existence collaborations with PRAGMA in the fields of Grid Computing and Bioinformatics etc
We are willing to be a institutional member of PRAGMA
We are willing to host future PRAGMA workshops

33. Attractions of Changchun City
Despite the winter cold, people flock to this area for the Ice Lantern Festival and the winter sports.
Ski Resorts
Ice Lantern Festival

34. Attractions of Changchun City
Film City
Changchun Film Studio is regarded as the cradle of Chinese films.
It produced the first puppet film Emperor's Dream, the first cartoon film Trap and Catch, the first science Prevention, the first fiction film Bridge, and the first translation film An Ordinary Soldier, thus opened the historic page of Chinese films.

35. Attractions of Changchun City
Forest City Changchun has four clear-cut seasons, and the trees shade the whole city. Changchun is famous as a "Forest City"

36. Attractions of Changchun City
Wonderful Foods
Jilin Cuisine includes a series of local dishes prepared with wild, green and natural materials and special cooking techniques.