1. Grid Computing and Thailand Research Community Putchong Uthayopas Director High Performance Computing and Networking Center Kasetsart University, Bangkok, Thailand Vice Chairman Thailand National Grid Committee Ministry of Information and Communication Technology pu@ku.ac.th

2. Thailand and new Frontier in Science and Technology Recently Thai Government decided to enhance Thailand competitiveness by  More IT investment and usage Infrastructure: broadband, mobile, low-cost PC E-learning, e-government Prime Minister Operation Center SIPA (Software Industry Promotion Agency)  Aggressive push and pursue new science Excellence center in Life Science Nano Technology Center

3. Motivation for Grid All these effort need  Powerful computing power  Massive Storage  Fast networking One critical enabling technology is middleware that provides  Single security infrastructure  Virtualization of resources  Enabling uniform communication between software components that manage resources Solution: Grid Systems

4. Grid and Thailand Research Community Enabling factor that stimulates the research  Having faster computation power  Having access to much larger storage  Communicate and collaborate better with tool like accessgrid The vehicle to the building scientific community  Attract people with multiple interests to work together

5. THAISARN

6. UNINET OC-3 BackboneOC-3 Backbone Tentatively be upgraded to 1Gbps in the near futureTentatively be upgraded to 1Gbps in the near future

7. Current connectivity UNINET ISP NIX 1 Gbps THAISARN IIR 100 mbps 200 mbps APAN Internet2 NII

8. ThaiREN: Next Generation connectivity UNINET RENEX THAISARN APANInternet2 …….. DWDM Ring (1-10 Gbps) Funding MICT (CAT)

9. A partnership project to explore grid computing technology and application in Thailand. Project started since December 2000  Build a grid related community for application level researchers  Create a grid computing infrastructure for Thai researchers  Stimulate the deployment of Grid Computing Technology  Act as a focal point for international grid collaboration Currently funded by  National Research Council of Thailand (NRCT)  Commission on Higher Education, Ministry of Education Link: www.thaigrid.net

10. Members  Kasetsart University  King Mongkut’s Institute of Technology North Bangkok  Suranaree University of Technology  Asian Institute of Technology  Chulalongkorn University  Walailak University  Chiangmai University  KMUTT  National Electronics and Computing Technology

11. Example Applications Computational Fluid Dynamics Simulation  Scheduling, Optimization Computational Chemistry  Virtual Screening, Cheminformatics Future  Life Science, Multimedia, Financial Engineering

12. Case Study: DRUG DESIGN GRID Using grid technology to pull HPC resources together to support scientist mission  Drug design : HIV, Avian Flu ( KU/Ministry of Science) Partners  HPCNC/KU, LCAC/KU  IBM

13. Drug Design Grid AMATA 14 nodes Athlon 1Ghz Warine 16 nodes Celeron 2.0Ghz GASS 6 nodes 12 processors Athlon MP1800+ Maeka 16 nodes 32 processors Opteron system Total of 74 processors are involved AMATA KU Gigabit Campus Network WarineGASSMaeka Globus 2.4 SQMS SQMS/G SCE Portal SCMSWeb

15. International Grid Collaboration APAN  Participation in Grid working group ApGrid project  Asia Pacific Grid technology test bed  APAG project International Access grid Test bed PRAGMA Project  Grid application test bed  GAMESS over the grid  NPACI Rocks / SCE  Gfarm

16. Related Activity: HEP Data Grid HEP Group is forming in Thailand  NECTEC  Chula  Mahidol  SUT (national synchrotron institute)  Chaingmai Infrastructure  Using existing Network (ThaiSarn,Uninet )  Support by participants In the process in initiating collaboration with CERN

17. Related activity:Thai e-science Project New project funded in 2003  Application oriented project Current members  Computational Chemistry Unit Cell, Department of Chemistry, Chulalongkorn University  Department of Computer Engineering, Chulalongkorn University  HPCNC, Kasetsart University Contact:http://www.thai-escience.net/http://www.thai-escience.net/  Dr. Prabhas Chongstitvatana (Associate Professor, Intelligent System Lab, Department of Computer Engineering, Chulalongkorn University)prabhas.c@chula.ac.thprabhas.c@chula.ac.th

18. Access Grid Being built in KU since 2002  KU was part of SCGlobal in SC2003 Being explored by many  AIT, NECTEC Purpose  Building fast research collaboration  Technical Training 6 new sites this year

19. Emerging Project

20. Thailand National Grid Project (TNGP) Proposed project funded by Ministry of Information and Communication technology  About 5.5 Million US$ ( 3 year Project) 3 main components  National Grid Committee  National Grid Platform  National Excellence Center for Grid Computing

21. Partner Institutions 14 institutions  Kasetsart University  Chulalongkorn University  King Mongkut’s Institute of Technology North Bangkok  King Mongkut’s Institute of Technology Ladkrabang  King Mongkut’s University of Technology  Mahidol University  Chiangmai University  Prince of Songkla University  KhonKhaen University  Suranaree University of Technology  Asian Institute of Technology  Silpakorn University  Walailak University  Dept. of Metrological, Ministry of ICT 2 new one in the next 2 years

22. Target 20 Organizations involved 30 projects running under program Educating 2000 people 15 international collaboration projects

23. Concept Advanced network Grid Drug Design Life Science Animation Financial Analysis Simulation Modeling USERS community Build a strong scientific community (People Grid)  having people from cross discipline to talk, work and build exciting new things  Explore innovative application including science, art, culture, entertainment Extend to industry by industrial partners Use Grid, HPC, Networking to support the mission (Resources Grid: Data, Computation Grid)

24. National Grid Committee A committee will be setup to oversee the grid development  Chair: Dr. Surapong Suebwonglee (Minister of ICT)  Vice Chair: Dr. Putchong Uthayopas (KU)  Secretary : Dr. Vara Varavidthaya (KMITNB)  Consists of representative from participant institutes  Advisory Committees Dr. Jack Dongarra (UTK) Dr. Thomas Sterling (NASA JPL) Dr. Satoshi Matsuoka (TITECH) Dr. Satoshi Sekiguchi (AIST) Prof. Yuen Poovarawan (KU, Thailand) Mission  Oversee the direction of Thailand Grid Computing Development  Encourage and stimulate grid computing development in Research Education Commercial

25. National Grid Platform Startup platform for nation wide grid deployment Concept  A 32 processors Beowulf clusters (16 systems) will be built for each partner institutes  Network upgrading to Gigabit in Bangkok and some upgrading in upcountry to increase bandwidth  Building a Terascale Cluster as a center for large computation shared by all Thai scientist

26. CEGC SUT KKU CMU WU PSU KMITNB KU KMITL CU Mahidol KMUTT AIT Silpakorn TMD Thailand National Grid Platform Gigabit Network Upgraded 32 CPU cluster Teraflop Site

27. National Excellence Center on Grid Computing Located at Kasetsart University Mission  Conduct grid research projects  Oversee the Grid deployment  Education, technology transfer  Industry support  International Collaboration

28. Current Status The concept has been approved by ICT minister.. Official committee setup is done Waiting for Budget approval and will start execution in about 3 months

29. Conclusion Trends  More active in many area of science and technology : Life science, NanoTechnology  Better national network infrastructure in the near future  Fuel by grid computing and many HPC application Next step  Moving at least part of the grid into production level (Sept.) Building Grid Control Center Pick stable system, installation  Rapidly increasing awareness  Forming larger users communities  Increasing level of international collaboration

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