1. ChinaGrid: National Education and Research Infrastructure Hai Jin Huazhong University of Science and Technology hjin@hust.edu.cn

2. 2 2 ChinaGrid in a Nutshell China Education and Research Grid Funded by Ministry of Education As the pilot grid application supported by China National Grid (CNGrid) Based on CERNET (China Education and Research Network) 12 universities as initiative, with 42 universities now

3. 3 3 History of ChinaGrid ChinaGrid Phase 1  From 2003-2005  Five key grid applications  Unified grid middleware among all participant universities – CGSP ChinaGrid over IPv6  From 2006-2008  Migrate all grid applications to IPv6 platform – CERNET-2  CGSP IPv6 enabled  Extended to 20 universities ChinaGrid Phase 2

4. 4 4 Large-scale and high-performance grid environment  Build up a grid system covering more than 20 key universities all over the country  Gather computing capabilities up to 18TF and storage capacities to 200TB Achievements of ChinaGrid Phase-1

5. 5 5 ChinaGrid Support Platform (CGSP)  The grid middleware for ChinaGrid  Follow the WS-Resource Framework (WSRF) and Open Grid Service Architecture (OGSA)  Developed by the joint working group from HUST, THU, PKU, BUAA, SJTU, and other universities in ChinaGrid  Installed in all the ChinaGrid universities Achievements of ChinaGrid Phase-1

6. 6 6 Bioinformatics Grid Provide more than 120 kinds of software tools and 35 types of related database services. Since Jan.1, 2006 ， average daily hits get up to 37750 times and highest hit reaches 218000 times per day

7. 7 7 Image Processing Grid Provide 35 kinds of image processing grid services, more than 3000 case data, about 100,000 medical pictures, about 10,000 diagnose materials and implement the information integration of five medical organizations including three hospitals

8. 8 8 CFD Grid Integrate more than 30 kinds of commercial/ teaching software, provide 40 kinds of CFD grid services, and provide grid computing environment supporting for 2 items of the Second Prize of Progress in National Science and Technology

9. 9 9 Massive Information Processing Grid Carry out the integration of digital museum resources of 12 universities, provide more than 100,000 digital specimens in 4 species; Support the data processing for ASγ experiment of Yangbajing of Tibet and the AMS experiment in the space

10. 10 Provide free VoD services about education based on 22 servers of ChinaGrid. The video resources include more than 300 college courses from 20 key universities and many disciplines. The total length is more than 8000 hours and the average daily hits amount to 5,000 Course On-line Grid

11. 11 Extended Grid Application – National Pilot Courses Resource Sharing System

12. 12 Extended Grid Application - JobGrid

13. 13 Mission of ChinaGrid Phase 2 Extend the scale of ChinaGrid  Build high-performance grid centers and enlarge number of campus grids Develop the key technologies of ChinaGrid  Enforce the development of the second phase of CGSP based on virtualization and cloud technology Exploit the typical applications of ChinaGrid  Applications should have extensive requirement, promote academic discipline development, and have great prospective Build management organizations of ChinaGrid  Guarantee ChinaGrid to run steadily and high efficiently by a set of management organizations

14. 14 Build 14 high performance grid centers of ChinaGrid  Form core nodes of grid environment  Equip computing capability with more than 700TF and storage capacity with more than 3PB  Incubate pilot grid applications  Grid resources are managed with full authority by ChinaGrid team and are open to the society freely  Explore the market mechanism of grid resources  Take on the duty of the regional grid center Build 42 campus grid systems  Expand the campus grid systems from 20 to 40  Build high performance computing environment by each participating universities Mission 1 ： Construction of Grid Resource

15. 15 Main content of the second phase of CGSP  Function: computing service system, data service system, information service system, web-based programming interface, virtual machine based job scheduling, security management, monitor and et al  Performance: Efficiency, stability, practicability, and ease of use  Routine: standardization, internationalization  Team work: concentrated development combining with development of different region, independent development combining with cooperative development Mission 2 ： Research and Development of CGSP

16. 16 Improve research ability in various disciplines with cloud technology Resources sharing and cooperating Resource pool of various discipline Dispatching and intercommunication platform of each discipline information Problem solving environment for each discipline Typical applications of each discipline on the basis of cloud technology Mission 3 ： Web 2.0 based Discipline Cloud

17. 17 Build Discipline Cloud in 8 disciplines and develop typical grid applications  Mechanics  Energy and power engineering  Social science  Law  Computer science and technology  Media computing  Material science and engineering  Atmosphere and environment science Mission 3 ： Web 2.0 based Discipline Cloud

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