APAN e-Science Track
Update on
National Grid in Singapore
5 July 2004
Jon Lau
Assistant Head, NGO
Update
• Last presented @ APAN in Busan (Korea)
in August 2003
• Since then…
– NGPP launched, governance setup,
applications developed, training courses
conducted
– Planning for NG Phase 2 – industry focused
– Access Grid node setup & more adoption
– More international collaboration
National Grid Vision
to facilitate the seamless use of an
integrated cyber infrastructure in a
secure, effective and efficient manner to
advance scientific, engineering & biomedical R&D,
with the longer term goal of transforming
the Singapore economy using grid
National Grid Steering Committee
Chairman – Mr. Peter Ho
MTI
MINDEF
MITA
MOH
MOE
Industry
(A*STAR,
EDB, RIs)
(DSTA, DSO)
(IDA, MDA)
(Hospitals)
(Schools,
NUS, NTU)
(Lilly, Philips.
SCS, StarHub)
National Grid
Governance Council
(NGGC)
Working Groups
Security
Middleware & Architecture
Governance & Policy
Applications
Facilitates &
coordinates activities
National Grid
Office
(NGO)
National Grid
Operations
Centre
(NGOC)
National Grid
Competency
Centre
(NGCC)
Access Grid
Digital Media
System Administrators
Life Sciences
SIGs
Physical Sciences
Network
…
Virtual Grid Communities
Activities
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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
Stakeholders
[listed in alphabetical order]
Entity
OS
Platform
IHPC
AIX
IBM Regatta
One-North
(BII & GIS)
Linux
Solaris
Compaq Alpha Cluster
Sun
NUS
Linux
Intel Xeon Cluster
NTU
Solaris
Linux
Sun Fire
Intel Pentium 4
SMA
Linux
Itanium 2
Official Launch
Industry Partners
• Platinum Partners
• Gold Partners
• Classic Partners
Governance Council
• Roles
– Develop & promulgate policies for
• Management & operation of NGPP, Sharing of resources on NGPP, Assess rights &
privileges of authorized users, Preventive actions & contingency plans for risk
management, Security, Service continuity, Disruptive recovery & Code of conduct for
users
– Develop a framework for service level management
to ensure that NGPP service levels meet desired
objectives
– Monitor & review performance & utilization of NGPP
– Develop a framework for economic model for next
phase of NGPP
Physical Sciences VGC Activities
Temasek
Labs
Distributed Simulation of Flow
over Dimpled Surfaces
Diagnostics
& Repair
Scheduling
Skewed Satellite Image
Geo-rectified Satellite Image
Geo-rectification of Satellite Images
Distributed Dissipative Particle Dynamics
(DPD) Simulation
Collaborative Engineering Design & Simulation
Complex Design & Modeling
Sponsored by :
Supported by :
Organized by :
Life Sciences VGC
E-Cell & Gene Simulation
Encyclopedia of Life
GridBlast
Life Science DB Mirroring
• Issue identified: various entities in
Singapore downloading huge Life
Sciences databases from overseas sites
over limited bandwidth, resulting in
infrequent updatedness.
• Solution: To rationalise the overseas
download of common databases,
provision these databases for local
sharing, and failovers.
Organised by
Sponsored by
Brought to you by
Distributed Computer Assisted Cel Animation
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A fully integrated 2D animation production system where many parts of 2D
animation production pipeline are automated to free artists from mundane
jobs to concentrate on creative tasks.
This project performs distributed cel animation from providing auto inbetweening to auto-coloring & take advantage of a large number of
clusters & nodes in a grid to greatly reduce the production time & improve
the quality of animation production.
(a) key-1
(d) inbetween-3
(b) inbetween-1
(e) inbetween-4
(c) inbetween-2
(f) key-2
Auto In-betweening
Promoting Grid Computing
Grid Technology as Competitive Weapon
by Dr. Andrew Grimshaw (Avaki Corp., USA)
Gridbus Toolkit for Grid & Utility Computing
by Dr. Rajkumar Buyya (University of Melbourne, Australia)
Challenges in High Performance Computing using Clusters & Grid
by Dr. Dave Scott (Intel Corp., USA)
PBS Pro as a Grid Enabler by Michael Humphrey (Altair Engineering, Inc., USA)
The UK e-Science Programme
by Dr. Anne Trefethen (e-Science Core Program, UK)
Grid Computing at IBM by Dr. Jean Pierre Prost (IBM Grid Design Center, France)
ThaiGrid by Dr. Putchong Uthayopas (Kaserat University, Thailand)
eScience Projects at Edinburgh eScience Centre
by Derek Waddell (Edinburgh Research & Innovation, UK)
Grid Computing & e-Science – from Design to in-Service Support
by Dr. Peter Cowley (Rolls-Royce plc, UK)
The MicroGrid – Enabling Scientific Study of Dynamic Grid Behavior
by Dr. Andrew Chien (UCSD, USA)
Grid – The Real Thing by Dr. Dejan Milojicic (HP Labs, USA)
APSTC Grid Initiatives in Asia Pacific
by Dr. Simon See (Sun Microsystems)
AIST Grid Initiatives in Japan & Asia Pacific
by Dr. Yoshio Tanaka (National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science &
Technology, Japan)
Grids for Real: Experiences from Operational Public & Enterprise Grids
by Sravish Sridhar (United Devices, Inc., USA)
…
Digital Media VGC Kick-off Symposium (H2 2004)
SuperComputing Global 2004 AG Site
Grid Innovations & Applications
Competition
• Target:
– Students at Institutes of Higher Learning
• Date: 1 Jun 2003 - 10 Jan 2004
• Jointly organised by:
• Sponsored by:
30 June – 1 July 2004
Hotel Grand Copthrone Waterfront, Singapore
Topics
• Problem solving environments, workflow & development tools
• Grid programming models, languages, debugging & compilation
techniques
• Grid Tools, Middleware & Fabrics
• Scheduling & resource management
• Grid applications & system solutions in science & engineering
• Novel uses of grid computing concepts & technologies
• Grid Security
• Singapore to host in 2006 (with NTU)
• Other forthcoming events
– PRAGMA 2005 (with BII)
– LSGrid 2005 (with NUS) - tba
– APAN 2006 (with SingAREN) - tba
NGCC Training Courses
• Introduction to Grid Computing &
National Grid Pilot Platform
• Introduction to Globus Toolkit for
Administrators
• Setting up an Access Grid (PIG)
• From Cluster to Grid – Building a UserFriendly Grid-enabled Cluster
• Grid-Enabling of Applications
NGCC Training Map
Legend
IT Professionals
Users/Business Professionals
Programmers
National Grid Phase 2
The 4 “Beyonds”
Beyond R&D
… to Industry
• Working with
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Infocomm Development Authority
Media Development Authority
Economic Development Board
Private sector MNCs & SMEs
…
• Use the Grid infrastructure as an enhancement
of the business ecosystem for corporations &
businesses
Beyond Computational Grid
… to Access Grid
• An ensemble of resources including multimedia
large-format displays, presentation & interactive
environments, & interfaces to Grid middleware
& to visualization environments.
• Support group-to-group interactions across the
Grid.
• For example
– AG is used for large-scale distributed meetings,
collaborative work sessions, virtual workshops,
education sessions, seminars, lectures, tutorials, &
training. Group conferences of dozens of people at
six or seven different sites are common.
AG Sessions
• NGO-AIST MOU Signing (14 May 2004) @ I2R
• NGO-KISTI on project collaboration (1 June
2004) @ I2R
• Keynote speeches @ Graphite (16 - 18 June
2004) @ NTU
• Coming:
– AG Sessions between NTU & Birmingham University,
UK
– More AG Sessions between NGO & KISTI
– To participate as a site in SC Global 2004
• AG Special Interest Group
– IMCB, IHPC, NTU & NUS
… to Data Grid
• Surprising few data intensive grid
applications
• Rationalizing Life Sciences database
download, mirroring & maintenance as
well as hosting of locally generated
databases (ala NCBI)
• Participation in CERN LCG project
Beyond Singapore
… to International
Collaboration
• The Grid extends beyond national
boundaries
• The Singapore National Grid wants to be
plugged in to the global network through
– Working with organizations like SingAREN,
APAN & other such bodies; and
– Advanced network infrastructure that APAN &
others are building.
• Promotion of e-Science type projects
Operational Grid with
Caltech
SDSC
ANL
NCSA
Purdue PSC
CERN LCG
CERN
SINGAPORE
[Courtesy of Hewlett Packard]
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MOU Signing & Seminar
14 May 2004
Beyond Bilateralism
… to Multi-Lateralism
• Current projects tend to involve 2 parties
• Need to involve more than 2 parties to
address larger sized problems
End