National Grid in Singapore National Grid in Singapore ––

Moving ForwardMoving ForwardEGEE 2006

Geneva, Switzerland

OutlineOutline

• Mission

• Status

• New Initiatives

National Grid MissionNational Grid Mission

to facilitate the seamless use of an integrated cyber infrastructure in a secure, effective & efficient manner to advance scientific, engineering &

biomedical R&D,

with the longer term goal of transforming the Singapore economy

using grid

National Grid Steering CommitteeChairman

Facilitates & coordinates

activities

National GridOffice(NGO)

National Grid Operations

Centre (NGOC)

National Grid Competency

Centre (NGCC)

MTI(A*STAR,

EDB, SPRING, RIs)

MINDEF(DSTA, DSO)

MICA(IDA, MDA)

MOH(Hospitals)

MOE(Schools,

NUS, NTU)

Industry(Lilly, CPG.

ITSC, SITF, …)

National GridGovernance Council

(NGGC)

PC Grid Computing

Working Groups

Virtual Grid Communities

Security

Middleware & Architecture

Governance & Policy

Network

System Administrators

Access Grid

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ActivitiesActivities

• Formulate the framework & policies• Plan & develop a secure platform• Adopt common open standards• Encourage the adoption of Grid

Computing• Demonstrate the commercial

viability of compute-resource-on-tap• Lay the foundation for a vibrant Grid

Computing economy

National Grid Pilot PlatformNational Grid Pilot Platform

• Objectives:– Promote grid computing

awareness– Foster collaboration– Interconnect main

compute resources

• Scope:– Establish 1GE backbone– Establish rudimentary

infrastructure for R&D in universities/research centres

– Testbed distributed applications

Physical Sciences ActivitiesPhysical Sciences Activities

Temasek Labs

Distributed Simulation of Flow over Dimpled

Surfaces

Skewed Satellite Image

Geo-rectified Satellite Image

Geo-rectification of Satellite Images

Diagnostics

& Repair Scheduling

Organized by :

Distributed Dissipative Particle Dynamics (DPD)

Simulation

Complex Design & Complex Design & ModelingModeling

Collaborative Engineering Design & Simulation

Life Sciences ActivitiesLife Sciences Activities

GridBlastE-Cell & Gene E-Cell & Gene SimulationSimulation

EncyclopediEncyclopedia of Lifea of Life

• Rationalizing Life Sciences database download, mirroring & maintenance

• Hosting of locally generated databases (ala NCBI)

• Future Enhancements– Allow queries across main databases– Support integration of Singapore data– Expand audience to include medical

professionals

Organised by

• Activities– Vacation Camp 2005 & 2006

• About 80 students & teachers each year– Grid-enabling of 2 new applications

• Speech modeling & Auto-Docking– 2 tracks

• Build• Use (digital media & bioinformatics)

• Platforms– BOINC, MP (United Devices), XGrid (Apple)

Jointly organized by

PC Grid PC Grid ComputingComputing

AeroGenome – Crunching on a PC AeroGenome – Crunching on a PC GridGrid

• Aim: To study bacterial micro-organisms in the air in Singapore.

• Motivation: Air plays significant role in public & environmental health

• Initial dataset of 20,000 DNA sequences were matched against database of 3 million known sequences. Single run on isolated compute resources took an entire month.

• Same process took less than 2 days on TCG@NUS

• Future: Scale up study using larger datasets.

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[Courtesy of Dr. Patrick Tan, GIS]

Grid ComputingGrid ComputingCompetency Competency CertificationCertification

At least 2-3 years of working IT Experience

GCCC Part 1Course

Passed GCCC Part 1 Exam

GCCC Part 1Attained

GCCC Part 2ACM Course

Passed GCCC Part 2 ACM

Exam

GCCC Part 2Electives

ExperienceReport

Fulfill following conditions:Passed ACM Exams

Attained sufficient credit points from ElectivesExperience Report endorsed

Attained GCCC Part 1

GCCC Part 2Attained

Global Operational Grid (GOG)

HP Tiramisu Program

SINGAPORE

CERNPSCSDSC

ANLNCSAPurdue

CaltechCERN LCG

ASCC

GOGCluster

• Implement baseline grid HPC resources• Build partnerships• Industry-relevant IP creation

In collaboration with

International Collaboration & International Collaboration & MembershipMembership

Industry InitiativesIndustry Initiatives

Grid Accounting Grid Accounting System (GAS)System (GAS)

Resource Usage …

Resource Usage

Monitoring

Collection of raw data

MeteringUsage charging

AccountingOrganisational level consumer-provider

business relationship

GangliaOnly stores & reports on information of resource status, no information of users & their jobs

Hence, no metering & accounting mechanism

$ = f (CPU , memory, license,…)

Bill for organization A = ∑ (usage of members of organization A at resources owned by other organizations)

[Courtesy of A/Prof. Francis Lee, NTU]

Netrust Certificate Netrust Certificate AuthorityAuthority

• Current Status:– Completed migration.

All existing NGPP sites have migrated their host certificates to Netrust certificates.

– Continual effort to issue certificates for• New users of NGPP resources• Additional hosts added to NGPP

• Temporary CA will continue to exist to issue certificates for testing & trials.

Meta Scheduler RolloutMeta Scheduler Rollout

• Objective– To provide LSF Meta-Scheduler for

seamless access to NGPP compute resources

• Collaboration with Platform Computing• Meta-Scheduler must inter-operate

with– LSF, PBS Pro & N1GE

• Completion: Q3 2005

Enterprise Grid for SMEsEnterprise Grid for SMEs

• Objectives– Create awareness in SMEs– Provide assistance & guidance to SMEs to

harness Grid Computing to exploit internal compute resources

• First site to benefit– MegaMedia’s digital media hub (dmh)

• Mental ray licenses for 64 CPUs acquired with Omens-Studios ready to use.

Interactive & Digital MediaInteractive & Digital Media• Free access to common pool of mental ray licenses• No charge to commercial users, IHL users & independent

animators• Digital Media companies that have used the facilities

• TheContentCompany• Omens-Studio• VHQ Productions

• Digital Media companies scheduled to use the facilities• mega media • Cubix International• Cyber-Max

• Grid Service Brokers• Frontline Technologies Pte Ltd

• IHLs• Singapore Polytechnic• Ngee Ann Polytechnic

Pipeline of Animation Pipeline of Animation ProjectsProjects

• Completed– Smoking Fish – Hold onto Your Butt– The Yellowman Shortfilm

• In the queue …– Piko the Silkworm (22 x 2min episodes)– Man Made Marvels Documentary– Zheng He Documentary– Fun Bots– Nutritional Immunology Sciences

Documentary

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FUSIONGRIDFUSIONGRID

R&DR&DCommunityCommunity

Digital MediaDigital MediaCommunityCommunity

HPC HPC CentreCentre

OtherOtherIndustryIndustrySectorsSectors

NG NG CentreCentre

• NUS University Grid Research Lab

• Fusion Grid • NTU University Grid Research Lab

• Other Grid Labs

National Grid CentreNational Grid Centre

National Grid Centre (NGC)

Grid SystemTo provide Interoperable Platform & testbed for pilot projects

Business Consultants

To provide consultancy services, explore industry collaborations & pilot projects, conduct training & seminar etc

Software Developers

To design new grid operating platform, interoperability, security software etc

Grid Market HubGrid Market Hub

• Location where buyers & sellers converge

• Grid Exchange trusted entity

that mediates & engenders trust in system. Handles policy & usage

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