A very short introduction to Project Supercomputing Center, KISTI Chan Yeol (Connor) Park
- 2 - Project? Maybe, most of you know Distributed.net And many other distributed computing like them
- 3 - Architecture Client/Server Style Partitioning a work into many jobs Data or Computational Intensively Distributing the jobs into available PCs Aggregating back the computing results
- 4 - Design Goals For customers with application Easy to use General enough to support a variety of applications Correctness For PC resource providers Transparent not to bother Secure and privacy-guarantee Compensation For Server Scalable Adaptable
- 5 - Status in 2002 Construct a platform 4 components of servers Main Control server Authentication server Scheduling and distribution server Database Agent for PCs Experiment on the platform Virtual Screening for New Drug Design
and Future Plan Architecture Hybrid P2P For more scalable, data sharing Complementary Studies Fault-tolerance Security More subscribers up to 50,000 New applications Explore compatibilities with GRID Variety of resources
- 7 - Virtual Screening Calculating the initial structure of PMI Target Protein Share Analysis Chemical DB A protein CDK2 for cancer 50,000 chemical molecules Server + + Client Client 2 Client 3 Virtual High-Throughput Screening Internet Calculating ligand PMI Searching for a new drug-candidates Clinical Test Developing new drug Manufacturing Calculating Protein Active Site PMI
- 8 - Experiments and Results 4 days in Aug ,217 PCs of anonymous volunteers About 2 hours and 40 minutes Performance Peak time 53.5 Gflops / Average Gflops 320 hours with one PC of Pentium III 550MHz United Devices ( 1.7 million subscribers: 39.1 Tflops Converting the result as 1.7 million subscribers: 46.7 Tflops (current fastest supercomputer NEC Earth Simulator Tflops)
- 9 - Opportunities in Korea Over 10 million xDSL users Advanced Network Infrastructure More rapid cycle of purchasing new PCs