Grid Activities in Singapore
20 February 2006
National 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 Committee
Chairman
MTI
MINDEF
MICA
MOH
MOE
Industry
(A*STAR,
EDB, SPRING, RIs)
(DSTA, DSO)
(IDA, MDA)
(Hospitals)
(Schools,
NUS, NTU)
(Lilly, CPG.
ITSC, SITF, …)
National Grid
Governance Council
(NGGC)
Working Groups
Security
Middleware & Architecture
Governance & Policy
Facilitates &
coordinates activities
PC Grid Computing
Manufacturing
Access Grid
Digital Media
System Administrators
Life Sciences
SIGs
Physical Sciences
Network
National Grid
Operations
Centre
(NGOC)
…
Virtual Grid Communities
National Grid
Office
(NGO)
National Grid
Competency
Centre
(NGCC)
National Grid Pilot Platform – Phase 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)
Linux
Solaris
Compaq Alpha Cluster
Sun
NUS
Linux
Intel Xeon Cluster
NTU
Solaris
Linux
Sun Fire
Intel Pentium 4
SMA
Linux
Itanium 2
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
Physical Sciences 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
Organized by :
Complex Design & Modeling
Collaborative Engineering Design & Simulation
Life Sciences Activities
• Rationalizing Life Sciences database
download, mirroring & maintenance
• Hosting of locally generated databases
(ala NCBI)
• Future Enhancements
Organised by
– Allow queries across main databases
– Support integration of Singapore data
– Expand audience to include medical
professionals
Encyclopedia
of Life
E-Cell & Gene Simulation
GridBlast
PC Grid Computing
• Stages
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1:
2:
3:
4:
Ideas Competition
Selection
Development
Resource Donation
• 3 categories
– Schools
– Institutes of Higher Learning
– Open
Sponsored by
Joint Organizers with
PC Grid Computing
• 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
Jointly organized by
Supported by
AeroGenome – Crunching on a PC Grid
•
Aim: To study bacterial microorganisms 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.
A
Open door
B
C
Exhaust Air
SHOP
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•
Same process took less than 2
days on TCG@NUS
Future: Scale up study using
larger datasets.
Recycling Air (80%)
Fresh Air (20%)
AHU
Air filter
A/C
fan
Courtesy of Dr.Patrick Tan, GIS
Collaborative Engineering
•
Co-funded collaboration partnership
•
Industry partners
•
Benefits
•
Collaborative Construction Management Initiative
•
Distributed Collaborative Design & Manufacturing Initiative
•
– IDA, NUS, Sun Microsystems, APSTC, SES Systems Pte Ltd
– Singapore Aerospace Manufacturing, IMAO, ABB Lummus Global, JGC
– Help industry to gain early competitive advantage through exploiting
engineering collaboration & problem solving capabilities
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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
– Will provision an Engineering Grid for simulation-based design
Collaborative Engineering Test Bed for Product Realization Initiative
Biological Integrated Manufacturing &
Services System
•
Partners
•
Objective
•
Platform
•
Integrates
– SIMTech, MC3, NTU, NUS, NovusGene, progeniq, Sun Microsystems, Attogenix,
KooPrime
– An integrated platform that allows interoperability between Grid Computing &
Bioinstrumentation
– That interfaces with bio-databases, bio-informatic tools & manufacturing
systems
– KOOPlatform, Goal Net, Taverna, Aris & Protégé to facilitate interoperability
•
Provides
•
Enables
•
Reduces
– A complete pipeline for diagnostic kits design
– Robust automation, data acquisition & analysis of bio-instruments
– Faster & more cost-efficient techniques for drug development & bio-research
– Supply chain costs with integrated resource inventory & logistics planning &
scheduling
A*STAR-NGO Call: 2005 Awards
SN
Project
Principal Investigator
1
Grid-based Comparative Genomics Pipeline for Detecting Conserved Noncoding 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 @ Singapore
• AE@SG R&D projects
– Focus on digital
media
• User Council
(comprising industry
participants) to
provide requirements
& validate work
(SMU, HP)
– Participation in
Large Hadron
Collider (LHC)
Computational Grid
(LCG)
WP6 Grid Economics & Business Models
• Global Operation Grid
(GOG)
WP1
(NTU,
Portal/Media Workbench
SIMTech, HP)
Cel Animation
Grid Enabled Applications
PovRay
WP3
(IHPC,
NTU, NUS, HP)
Information and Job Management
Grid Middleware (Globus)
Infrastructure
GOG
NGP
P
WP2
(NTU, Temasek Poly,
HP)
WP4
…
WP5
Global Operational Grid (GOG)
Caltech
SDSC
ANL
NCSA
Purdue PSC
• Implement baseline grid
HPC resources
• Build partnerships
CERN LCG • Industry-relevant IP creation
CERN
ASCC
SINGAPORE
GOG
Cluster
In collaboration with
HP Tiramisu
Program
Grid
Market
MC3 64
Sun Opteron
Grid Resource Brokers
GOG
2 TB
Xeon +
Itanium 2
72
Grid Resource
Providers
78
Hardware
(CPU, Storage,
…) Providers
MC3
dmh
Users
Application
Software
Vendors
Grid
Exchange
Sembawang
150
64
CEP Tools
AE@SG
JGC
SES
2
FEMLAB
mental
ray
Accounting
Organisational level
consumer-provider
business relationship
Grid Accounting
System (GAS)
Bill for organization A = ∑ (usage of members
of organization A at resources owned by other
organizations)
$ = f (CPU , memory, license,…)
Metering
Usage charging
Ganglia
Monitoring
Collection of raw
data
Resource
Usage
…
Only stores & reports on
information of resource
status, no information of
users & their jobs
Hence, no metering &
accounting mechanism
Resource
Usage
[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 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 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 Provisioning
• 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
1st South East Asia Grid Forum
8 Feb 2006, Singapore
• Members
• Purpose
To 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.
Sponsored by:
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