Qian Depei China National Grid A Practice in Resea

China National Grid—A Practice in Grid Research and Development in China: 

China National Grid —A Practice in Grid Research and Development in China Qian Depei Xian Jiaotong University May 17, 2004

Outline: 

Outline Increasing demand for grid technology Overview of the 863 key project Progress of the China National Grid

China is experiencing a rapid development period: 

China is experiencing a rapid development period Huge investment on information infrastructure Networks High performance computers Servers Software Great effort in developing applications Operations are being transferred to network environment People more and more rely on network and computers

Problems we are facing: 

Problems we are facing Waste of resources Huge investment every year to buy new computers and software while at the same time many machines are idle or under-utilized Economically undeveloped areas lack of computing resources

Problems we are facing: 

Problems we are facing Information exchange and sharing are obstructed by “information island” Applications are isolated and unable to “talk” to each other Precious data are owned by organizations and difficult to share Applications requiring comprehensive data are hard to develop

Problems we are facing: 

Problems we are facing High complexity of development restricts the applications Distributive, heterogeneous, versatile, and dynamically changing network environment makes the development of applications difficult Lack of talent people for development

Problems we are facing: 

Problems we are facing High operation cost is intolerable Frequent upgrading of hardware and software is a heavy burden of enterprises and organizations Dedicated operation team has to be maintained by each enterprise or organization

E-everything is expensive!: 

E-everything is expensive! Initial cost Computers Networks Software Computer rooms … Operation cost Staff Electricity maintenance … Short life cycle of equipment

Why Grid? : 

Why Grid? Lower the complexity in development Lower the cost of operation Lower the threshold for technical staff

What is Grid?: 

What is Grid? Inherently support resource sharing and cooperative work Characterized by the service nature Support virtual organizations

Is the grid concept new?: 

Is the grid concept new? The goals the grid pursue are what people have been working on in the past decades Grid is in growing stage

Can grid be the future information infrastructure?: 

Can grid be the future information infrastructure? It has not reached that status Pervasiveness Ease of use Efficient management Robustness Support to applications

Overview of China National Grid: 

Overview of China National Grid A key project supported by the National High-Tech R&D Program (the 863 program), continuing effort to the HPCE project 4-year effort 100 million fund from the Chinese government (MOST) Two to three times more associated funds from local governments, application organizations, and industry

Overview of China National Grid : 

Overview of China National Grid Enabling resource sharing and cooperative works under the Internet environment Providing the most powerful computing capability to research Exploring new models and patterns of applications and services in the Internet Promote China’s industry in high performance computers and grids Training of talent people in the field of the grid

Major tasks of the project: 

Major tasks of the project Develop a test-bed for the new information infrastructure—China National Grid (CNGrid) About 8 grid nodes across the country Interconnected by available networks Develop a 4TFlops high performance computer to equip the grid nodes Develop a grid software to support grid applications and grid operation and management Develop several application grids Productive systems Demonstrate the future grid applications

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Appl. Grids Grid Software Grid Resources Grid System Software Development Environment Use Environment Research Environment Manufacturing Service HPC Database Data Apps Internet Three levels of activities

Guidelines of the project: 

Guidelines of the project Application driven The most important driving force Technological leaping patents standards

Guidelines and strategies of the project (con.): 

Guidelines and strategies of the project (con.) Multilateral cooperation Funds from 863 program Local government Application organizations Industry Cooperation of Research teams Application teams Management people Focus on the grid Complementary research efforts Integration into the grid testbed

The R&D supported: 

The R&D supported 19 projects are supported in the first round of the project The strategic and integration technology study The grid nodes construction (8 nodes) Grid software development (1 team) Application grids development (7 teams) High performance computer development (2 teams)

Grid test-bed development: 

Grid test-bed development Build China National Grid (CDGrid) Eight nodes across the country CAS Network Centers (Beijing, major node) Shanghai Supercomputer Center (Shanghai, major node Tsinghua University (Beijing) Applied Physics Institute (Beijing) University of Science and Technology of China (Hefei, Anhui) Xi’an Jiaotong University (Xi’an, Shaanxi) UNDT (Changsha) Hong Kong University (Hongkong)

Requirement to grid nodes: 

Requirement to grid nodes Major nodes >1 Tflops Equipped with the machine developed by the project Ordinary nodes >100GFlops Provided by the organization supporting the node

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grid nodes across China

HPC development: 

HPC development Two >4TFlops machines are being developed Dawning computer AMD 64-bit Opteron processor 11 Tflops peak performance Lenovo computer Intel Itanium 2 processor 5.324 Tflops peak performance

Lenovo 6800: 

Lenovo 6800 Completed in Nov. 2003 2.6TB momory 81TB disks 4.183 Linpack performance (78.5% efficiency) Ranked at 14 in Top500 ranking Installation at CAS Network Center in the coming December

Lenovo 6800: 

Lenovo 6800

Dawning 4000A: 

Dawning 4000A Completed in Apr. 2004 640 nodes, 2560 2.2GHz AMD Opteron CPU 5TB memory 22.5TB local disks Three sets of networks Myrinet Gigabit Ethernet Fast Ethernet 7.638TFlops Linpack performance (67.8% efficiency)

Grid software development: 

Grid software development Grid system software Interfacing to heterogeneous systems Basic resource management & scheduling Communication Grid application development environment Remote debugging Performance tuning Grid user environment Grid browser GSML

Grid software position in OGSA: 

Grid software position in OGSA Grid software

Application grids development: 

Application grids development Selected areas Resource and Environment Research Services Manufacturing

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Application Grids

Geological Survey Grid: 

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

Digital Forest Grid: 

Digital Forest Grid Undertaken by the Institute of Forest Resources Information Monitoring the status of forests in China Integration of remote sensing data, GIS information, and management information Evaluation of the process of turning the farmland back to forests Reflect true condition Guarantee the quality

Meteorological Service Grid: 

Meteorological Service Grid Undertaken by China National Meteorological Center Three sites in Beijing, Guangdong, and Hunan, forming a grid Sharing of computing resources Platform for digital weather forecasting pattern research Provide new weather forecast services (time and location-specific)

Scientific Data Grid: 

Scientific Data Grid Undertaken by the Network & Information Center of CAS Integration of more than 40 scientific databases across the country Virtual astronomical observatory

New drug discovery grid: 

New drug discovery grid Undertaken by Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica CAS Compound screening for new drug discovery Anti-SARS drugs discovery New drug for diabetes Using HPC in P2P mode

Bio-informatics Grid: 

Bio-informatics Grid Undertaken by Genomics & Bioinformatics Institute, CAS Computing grid, data grid, and information grid for bio-information research in the country

Manufacturing Grid: 

Manufacturing Grid Undertaken by China Aviation industry Corporation II Support distributed design, simulation, and manufacturing CAD software sharing Data exchange and sharing Computing resource sharing

China Grid Forum: 

China Grid Forum Promote research and development Exchange experiences Propose standards Set up a bridge between academic community and industry

China Grid Forum : 

China Grid Forum Established on Oct. 24, 2002 The first CGF conference on Sept. 12, 2003 Organizational Structure Advisory Committee Executive Committee Working Groups Grid architecture Data grids Information Grids Grid Applications

International cooperation: 

International cooperation IBM and Platform have participated in the work of the project Grid software Application grids IBM signed MOU with the expert group of the project Joint research is encouraged China international cooperation projects UK e-Science

Expecting cooperation : 

Expecting cooperation Interconnection with other grids Sharing of resources Computing power Application software Software tools Cooperation in proposing standards Personnel exchange Workshops

Thank you!: 

Thank you!