VNGrid: Toward a national Grid infrastructure for Vietnam

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VN-Grid Toward a national Grid infrastructure
for Vietnam

• Dr. Tuan-Anh Nguyen
• Faculty of Information Technology
• University of Technology,
• Ho Chi Minh city, Vietnam
• tuananh.nguyen_at_hcmut.edu.vn

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Overview

• Grid activities in Vietnam
• VN-Grid a reflection of our Grid vision
• Our related activities
• Conclusion

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Grid activities in Vietnam
Well known Grid node(s)!
Portal
Current Grid activities
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VN-Grid toward a national-scale computing Grid
Site
Data warehouse
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VN-Grid partners

• HCMC University of Technology
• University of Natural Sciences (HCMC)
• Institute of Applied Mechanics
• Department of Posts and Telematics (HCMC)
• IT Park
• VietsovPetro joint venture enterprise

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VN-Grid testbed
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Supernode project

• Building HPC system with programming supports

Supernode 2 (2004-2006)
Supernode 1 (1998-2000)

• 4 Nodes
• Configurable network topology
• MPI interface

• 64 Nodes (dual Xeon)
• Fast network (32 links, 1Gb/s each)
• 330 GFlops effective performance
• MPI interface

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POP-C Parallel Object Programming
Grid environment
Object
Object
execute
Object
Obj
Object
Object

• Heterogeneous
• Large scale
• Unstructured
• Dynamic and unknown topology

• Distributed objects
• Heterogeneous

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Parallel object by extending C
Grid Programming
Grid infrastructure
Architecture

• Transparent, requirement driven object
  allocation
• Various method invocation semantics

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EDAGRID project

• Computing Grid for microchip design
• Synthesis and optimization
• Smaller
• Faster
• More power efficient
• Self verification

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Conclusion

• Grid computing is a very promising research
• We are late!
• But we can catch up other countries in Grid
  research
• We need to build our own infrastructure
• VN-Grid will be our first step