Brief Introduction of CNGrid Operation and Support Center

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Brief Introduction of CNGrid Operation and
Support Center

• Dr. Zhonghua Lu
• zhlu_at_sccas.cn
• Supercomputing Center,
• Computer Network Information Center
• Chinese Academy of Sciences
• www.sccas.cn
• September 16, 2005,Edinburgh

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Overview of the China National Grid (CNGrid)

• key project supported by the National High-Tech
  RD Program (the 863 program)
• 4-year project
• Launched in May 2002
• Earliest and largest Grid project in China
• 100 million fund from the Chinese government
  (MOST)
• Two to three times more associated funds from
  local governments, application organizations, and
  industry

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Major tasks of the project

• Developing a test-bed for the new information
  infrastructureChina National Grid (CNGrid)
• About 8 grid nodes across the country
• Interconnected by available networks
• Developing a 4TFlops high performance computer
  for the grid
• Developing a set of grid software to support grid
  applications and grid operation and management
• Developing several application grids
• Productive systems
• Demonstration of the future grid
• applications

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Fund Allocation

• Testbed 10 million
• Computing Nodes
• Operation and support center
• HPC 40 million
• Software 12 million
• Application 27 million
• Strategic study and integration 5 million
• Evaluation centers 3 million
• Other 3 million

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Computer Network Information Center
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Tsinghua University
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CNGrid Operation and Support Center

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CNGrid Operation and Support Center

• Established in September of 2004
• Based on CNIC (Computer Network Information
  Center, CAS)
• Team Tshua University , Shanhai Supercomputer
  Center, all nodes group

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Functions of CNGrid Operation and Support Center
(www.cngrid.org)

• Grid file management
• System monitor
• User management
• Job submit/query
• Role management
• Policy management
• Training

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Facilities

• Lenovo DeepComp 6800, a Grid-oriented 5.3
  Teraflops supercomputer, Performance Highlights
• Scientific Computing Benchmark - Linpack
  (www.top500.org)
• Peak Performance 5.324 Teraflops
• HPL Performance 4.148 Teraflops

TOP 500, Rank 14 (Nov, 16, 2003) Top 100, Rank
1 (Nov, 8, 2003, China)
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CNGrid portal
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Grid system monitoring
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Grid system monitoring(Cont.)
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User Management
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Grid Technique BBS
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Grid Applications

• Applications in nodes
• Application Grids development

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Applications in computing nodes from CNGrid
Portal

• Bioinfomatics
• Environment science
• Material science
• Computational chemistries
• Distributed java computing
• Scientific visualization

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Applications in computing nodes from CNGrid
Portal (Cont.)

• Bioinfomatics
• Blast Sequences similarity searching tool of
  NCBI
• bgf BGI Gene Finding program
• Siclone finding new gene based on EST
• MEME discovering some motifs which appear
  repeated from a set of sequences using EM
  algorithm.

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Applications in computing nodes from CNGrid
Portal (Cont.2)

• Environment Science
• MM5is a limited-area, nonhydrostatic,
  terrain-following sigma-coordinate model designed
  to simulate or predict mesoscale atmospheric
  circulation.

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Applications in computing nodes from CNGrid
Portal (Cont.3)

• Material science
• ALCMDClassic Molecular Dynamics Program by Ames
  Lab
• PSSP (parallel version) This program is used to
  solve molecular crystal structures from X-ray
  powder diffraction data using the simulated
  annealing algorithm.
• LS-DYNA a general purpose transient dynamic
  finite element program capable of simulating
  complex real world problems.

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Applications in computing nodes from CNGrid
Portal (Cont.4)

• Computational Chemistries
• GAUSSIAN03 Starting from the basic laws of
  quantum mechanics, Gaussian predicts the
  energies, molecular structures, and vibrational
  frequencies of molecular systems, along with
  numerous molecular properties derived from these
  basic computation types.
• ADF2004 The Amsterdam Density Functional (ADF)
  package is software for first-principles
  electronic structure calculations. ADF is used by
  academic and industrial researchers worldwide in
  such diverse fields as pharmacochemistry and
  materials science.

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Applications in computing nodes from CNGrid
Portal (Cont.5)

• Distributed java computing
• RayTracing based on JESSICA2 ray tracing
  application
• GRayTracing based on G-JavaMPI ray tracing
  application

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Applications in computing nodes from CNGrid
Portal (Cont.6)

• Scientific Visualization
• GrADs_Web is an interactive desktop tool that is
  used for easy access, manipulation, and
  visualization of earth science data.
• GridMol is a molecule visualization software
  based on Java3d.
• ParaView process huge data with parallel and
  distributed visualization technique.
• LURR_SpaceView earthquake history data
  synthesized, visulization

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Application grids development

• Applications from selected areas
• Resource and Environment
• Research
• Services
• Manufacturing

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Geological Survey Grid

• Undertaken by China National Geologic Survey
  Bureau
• Nation-wide productive grid
• Data exchange and sharing
• Resource evaluation services
• Shorten the evaluation time from 3 years to 3
  months
• Delivering achievements in
• North China ground water resources evaluation
• Mineral resources evaluation

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Digital Forestry Grid

• Undertaken by the Institute of Forest Resources
  Information
• Support turning the farmland back to forests
• potential evaluation
• project planning
• project evaluation

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Potential Analysis (major rivers and lakes)
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Meteorological Service Grid

• Undertaken by China National Meteorological
  Center
• Multiple sites to form the research platform for
  new weather forecasting model research
• Provide new weather forecast services (time and
  location-specific)

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MM5 mode(5km) simulation of rainfall of 30-36h,
simulation result is 12h later than reality.
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GRAPES_MESO mode(6km)rain belt, center, and time
close to real situation!
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Result from GRAPES for forecasting snow (rain) in
Dec. 21, 2004 (grid30km)
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Scientific Data Grid

• Undertaken by the Network Information Center of
  CAS
• Integration of more than 200 scientific databases
  from more than 40 institutes across the country
  by means of metadata management
• Virtual astronomical observatory

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Scientific Data Grid Portal
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New drug discovery grid

• Undertaken by Shanghai Institute of Materia
  Medica CAS
• Compound screening for new drug discovery
• Speed up the process by computer simulation
• Higher accuracy
• Using HPC in P2P mode
• New drug for diabetes is under development and
  will enter clinic testing by the end of 2005

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New Drug Discovery Grid Platform
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Bio-informatics Grid

• Undertaken by Genomics Bioinformatics
  Institute, CAS
• Provide computing, data, and information grids
  for bio-information research in the country

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Manufacturing Grid

• Undertaken by AVIC II of China
• Support distributed design, simulation, and
  manufacturing
• CAD software sharing
• Data exchange and sharing
• Computing resource sharing

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Manufacturing Grid
Aviation grid platform composed of three clusters
in different locations
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Manufacturing Grid
before optimization
After optimization
Added skin
Reduced skin
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Other application grids

• Education grid (ChinaGrid)
• Simulation grid
• Intelligent transportation grid
• PetroGrid

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Summary

• CNGrid is the largest Grid project in China
• CNGrid Operation and Support Center takes very
  important role in CNGrid and in its Application
• There are some applications in CNgrid

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Thank you!Welcome you to CNGrid Operation and
Support CenterHope we have more collaboration
with you all