Grid Activities in Grid Activities in SingaporeSingapore

20 February 2006

National Grid VisionNational Grid Vision

to facilitate the seamless use of an integrated cyber infrastructure in a secure, effective & efficient manner to advance scientific, engineering &

biomedical R&D,

with the longer term goal of transforming the Singapore economy

using grid

National Grid Steering CommitteeChairman

Facilitates & coordinates

activities

National GridOffice(NGO)

National Grid Operations

Centre (NGOC)

National Grid Competency

Centre (NGCC)

MTI(A*STAR,

EDB, SPRING, RIs)

MINDEF(DSTA, DSO)

MICA(IDA, MDA)

MOH(Hospitals)

MOE(Schools,

NUS, NTU)

Industry(Lilly, CPG.

ITSC, SITF, …)

National GridGovernance Council

(NGGC)

PC Grid Computing

Working Groups

Virtual Grid Communities

Security

Middleware & Architecture

Governance & Policy

Network

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National Grid Pilot Platform – National Grid Pilot Platform – Phase 1Phase 1

• Objectives:– Build grid computing

awareness– Foster collaboration– Interconnect main

compute resources

• Scope:– Establish 1GE backbone– Establish rudimentary

infrastructure for R&D in universities/research centres

– Testbed distributed applications

Entity OS Platform

IHPC AIX IBM Regatta

One-North (BII & GIS)

LinuxSolaris

Compaq Alpha Cluster

Sun

NUS Linux Intel Xeon Cluster

NTU SolarisLinux

Sun FireIntel Pentium 4

SMA Linux Itanium 2

ActivitiesActivities

• Formulate the framework & policies• Plan & develop a secure platform• Adopt common open standards• Encourage the adoption of Grid

Computing• Demonstrate the commercial

viability of compute-resource-on-tap• Lay the foundation for a vibrant Grid

Computing economy

Physical Sciences ActivitiesPhysical Sciences Activities

Temasek Labs

Distributed Simulation of Flow over Dimpled

Surfaces

Skewed Satellite Image

Geo-rectified Satellite Image

Geo-rectification of Satellite Images

Diagnostics

& Repair Scheduling

Organized by :

Distributed Dissipative Particle Dynamics (DPD)

Simulation

Complex Design & Complex Design & ModelingModeling

Collaborative Engineering Design & Simulation

Life Sciences ActivitiesLife Sciences Activities

GridBlastE-Cell & Gene E-Cell & Gene SimulationSimulation

EncyclopediEncyclopedia of Lifea of Life

• Rationalizing Life Sciences database download, mirroring & maintenance

• Hosting of locally generated databases (ala NCBI)

• Future Enhancements– Allow queries across main databases– Support integration of Singapore data– Expand audience to include medical

professionals

Organised by

• Stages– 1: Ideas Competition– 2: Selection– 3: Development– 4: Resource Donation

• 3 categories– Schools– Institutes of Higher Learning– Open

Sponsored by Joint Organizers with

PC Grid PC Grid ComputingComputing

• DSTA’s funding for– Vacation Camp 2005

• 6 & 7 December 2005

– Grid-enabling of 2 new applications

– 200 United Devices client licenses for schools

• In discussion– IDA funding for ICT Clubs in Schools

Supported byJointly organized by

PC Grid PC Grid ComputingComputing

AeroGenome – Crunching on a PC AeroGenome – Crunching on a PC GridGrid

• Aim: To study bacterial micro-organisms in the air in Singapore.

• Motivation: Air plays significant role in public & environmental health

• Initial dataset of 20,000 DNA sequences were matched against database of 3 million known sequences. Single run on isolated compute resources took an entire month.

• Same process took less than 2 days on TCG@NUS

• Future: Scale up study using larger datasets.

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Courtesy of Dr.Patrick Tan, GIS

Collaborative EngineeringCollaborative Engineering• Co-funded collaboration partnership

– IDA, NUS, Sun Microsystems, APSTC, SES Systems Pte Ltd

• Industry partners– Singapore Aerospace Manufacturing, IMAO, ABB Lummus Global, JGC

• Benefits– Help industry to gain early competitive advantage through exploiting

engineering collaboration & problem solving capabilities

• Collaborative Construction Management Initiative– Integrated Production Scheduler for Constraints Management– Process Parameter Interface Model for Design Management– Integrated 4-D Product Process Model for Constructability Analysis– Will use P2P for industrial environments

• Distributed Collaborative Design & Manufacturing Initiative– Will provision an Engineering Grid for simulation-based design

• Collaborative Engineering Test Bed for Product Realization Initiative

Biological Integrated Biological Integrated Manufacturing & Services SystemManufacturing & Services System

• Partners– SIMTech, MC3, NTU, NUS, NovusGene, progeniq, Sun Microsystems,

Attogenix, KooPrime• Objective

– An integrated platform that allows interoperability between Grid Computing & Bioinstrumentation

• Platform– That interfaces with bio-databases, bio-informatic tools & manufacturing

systems• Integrates

– KOOPlatform, Goal Net, Taverna, Aris & Protégé to facilitate interoperability

• Provides– A complete pipeline for diagnostic kits design

• Enables– Robust automation, data acquisition & analysis of bio-instruments– Faster & more cost-efficient techniques for drug development & bio-

research• Reduces

– Supply chain costs with integrated resource inventory & logistics planning & scheduling

A*STAR-NGO Call: 2005 A*STAR-NGO Call: 2005 AwardsAwards

SN Project Principal Investigator

1 Grid-based Comparative Genomics Pipeline for Detecting Conserved Non-coding Functional Regions

Jagath C Rajapakse (NTU)

2 Development of a Grid System with Applications to Large-Scale Bio- & Nano-material System

Bertil Schmidt (NTU)

3 A Personalized & Adaptive Literature Curation System for the Biomedical Sciences

Patrick Tan (NCC)

4 Grid-based PSE for Engineering of Materials Ong Yew Soon (NTU)

5 A Novel Approach to Modeling & Animation with Disk & Ball B-Spline Over the Grid

Seah Hock Soon (NTU)

6 Stochastic Super-resolution Imaging: Fundamentals, Algorithms & its Grid Computing Paradigms

Ma Kai-Kuang (NTU)

7 Grid-based Scalable & Extensible Large Scale Collaborative Environment Lin Qingping (NTU)

8 Operational Transparent VGC over Service Oriented Grid Robert Gay (NTU)

9 A Semantic based QoS Control & Management Framework for Grids Pung Hung Keng (NUS)

10 Design of Resource Management & Large-Scale Data Processing Strategies for Grid Computing Environments

Bharadwaj Veeravali (NUS)

Adaptive Enterprise @ Adaptive Enterprise @ SingaporeSingapore

• AE@SG R&D projects– Focus on digital

media

• Global Operation Grid (GOG)– Participation in

Large Hadron Collider (LHC) Computational Grid (LCG)

• User Council (comprising industry participants) to provide requirements & validate work

WP2(NTU, Temasek Poly,HP)

WP1(NTU,

SIMTech, HP)

WP3(IHPC,NTU, NUS, HP)

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Portal/Media WorkbenchPortal/Media Workbench

Grid Enabled ApplicationsGrid Enabled ApplicationsCel AnimationCel Animation

PovRayPovRay

Information and Job ManagementInformation and Job Management

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Global Operational Grid (GOG)

HP Tiramisu Program

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CERNPSCSDSC

ANLNCSAPurdue

CaltechCERN LCG

ASCC

GOGCluster

• Implement baseline grid HPC resources• Build partnerships• Industry-relevant IP creation

In collaboration with

GridExchange

MC3

dmh

SES

Sembawang

JGC

Users

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Hardware(CPU, Storage,…) Providers

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ApplicationSoftwareVendors

Grid Resource Brokers

Grid ResourceProviders

FEMLAB

mentalray

GOGXeon +Itanium 2

MC3Sun Opteron

Grid Grid MarketMarket 2 TB

CEP Tools AE@SG

Grid Accounting Grid Accounting System (GAS)System (GAS)

Resource Usage …

Resource Usage

Monitoring

Collection of raw data

MeteringUsage charging

AccountingOrganisational level consumer-provider

business relationship

GangliaOnly stores & reports on information of resource status, no information of users & their jobs

Hence, no metering & accounting mechanism

$ = f (CPU , memory, license,…)

Bill for organization A = ∑ (usage of members of organization A at resources owned by other organizations)

[Courtesy of A/Prof. Francis Lee, NTU]

Digital Media Grid POC

– Support for animation rendering– Software installed

• POV-Ray• 150 x mental ray licenses

– Objective of Trial• For serious users to experience running animation

rendering jobs over the grid & understand the state of technology

– Users• VHQ Post, Cubic Communications

Enterprise Grid for SMEsEnterprise Grid for SMEs

• Objectives– Create awareness in SMEs– Provide assistance & guidance to SMEs to

harness Grid Computing to exploit internal compute resources

• Partners– MegaMedia’s digital media hub (dmh)– TBA

Use of mental ray LicensesUse of mental ray Licenses• Digital Media companies to use the

facilities:• VHQ• Omens-Studio

• Enterprise grid @ dmh has been enabled to utilize the licenses

• Free access & no charge to commercial users & IHLs

Goal of Proof-of-Concept

For users to harness resources on NGPP to run FEMLAB on a pay-per-use basis

resulting in cost-savings for companies, encouraging R&D activities, & improving

utilization of resources.

Test-bedding of Test-bedding of ProvisioningProvisioning

• Objective– To assess viability of a spill-over facility using

GOG clusters– To measure speed of provisioning– To explore appropriate cost model

• Outcomes– Accuracy of results is confirmed– License conditions to be re-visited

• Members

• PurposeTo provide a forum for national level discussions on setting up grid infrastructures, deploying applications, and facilitating coordination of projects of common interest in South East Asia.

1st South East Asia Grid Forum8 Feb 2006, Singapore

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