Driving Plan

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Driving Status of NGrid Project in Korea
August 27, 2003 Jongsuk Ruth Lee KISTI
Supercomputing Center
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Table of Contents

• Definition of Grid
• Status of Resources Grid Necessity
• NGrid Project
• Plans for Activating NGrid Project
• Implementation of Grid Testbed
• Development of Grid System
• Research on Grid Applications
• Strategy for NGrid Project
• Milestones
• Summary

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Definition of Grid
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Definition of Grid

• Research Infrastructure for dynamically
  collecting integrated sharing
• Research Resources connected by high-speed
  network

Scientific Research Instrument
Supercomputer
Problem Solving
Experts
Large Scale Data
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Status of Resources Grid Necessity
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Status of Research Resources (1/2)

• Status of Supercomputer usage (KSCA, 2003. 3)

Organization
KISTI
KMA
SNU
DIU
CNU
POSTECH
PNU
K-JIST
Utilization
80
80
70
30
40
60
70
60

• Status of the only Research Instruments Holding

Name Organization
High Voltage Transmission Electron Microscopy KBSI
NMR Spectroscopy KBSI
Hanbit Plasma Equipment KBSI
Electron Linear Accelerator POSTECH
Research Reactor Hanaro KAERI
Wind tunnel KARI
Flight Simulator KARI
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Status of Research Resources (2/2)

• Status of Research Networks
• Domestic
• KOREN 30Gbps/1GbPS
• KREONET2 10Gbps/1Gbps
• International
• APII Testbed (Korea Japan) 1Gbps etc
• TEIN 30Mbps
• STAR TAP LINK 155Mbps
• Campus/Industry Network Gbps

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Necessity of Introducing Grid (1/2)

• Demand of Domestic Computing Resources

USA
KOREA
Domestic Demand
160
148.7
140
120
100
Rmax(TFlops)
80
60
40
12.4
20
2.6
0
1996
1997
1998
1999
2000
2001
2002
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Necessity of Introducing Grid (2/2)

• Necessity of Research Infrastructure
  Implementation
• Necessity of investing fund to implement Grid
  infrastructure for 6T researches to access any
  computing resources and data any time and any
  where

Status of 6T Research Fund ( IT News 23. 7.
2002)
Areas
IT
BT
ET
ST
NT
CT
Total
Research Fund
1241.7 billion
374.2 billion
219.3 billion
157.2 billion
81.9 billion
32.3 billion
2106.5 billion
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NGrid Project
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NGrid Project (1/6)

• NGrid includes
• National Computational Grid
• National Data Grid
• National Access Grid
• National Application Grid
• (Ex Bio Grid, CFD Grid, Meteo Grid etc)
• including application testbed and portals
• NGrid is planned at the government level
• by MIC(Ministry of Information and
  Communication)
• 5 year project (2002-2006)
• Total budget 32M USD

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NGrid Project (2/6)

• History of NGrid with KISTI
• 1998-1999 Preceding research
• Development of metacomputing technology on
  heterogeneous supercomputing resources(The result
  is published at PDPTA2000 conference)
• Development of a portable computational steering
  package CSP
• 2000 Initiation of Globus-related research and
  activity
• Building of Globus-based metacomputing test-bed
• Satoshi Sekiguchi(TACC, Japan) proposed Korea to
  join APGrid(Jun., Dec.)
• 2001 NGrid start
• KISTI Supercomputing Center suggest at MIC to
  carry out NGrid(Feb.)
• MIC announced to start NGrid as a 5
  year(2002-2006) national project(May.)
• Korea Gird Forum will be launched in Oct., 2001.

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NGrid Project (3/6)

• Major Contents of NGrid (2002-2006)
• Building and operation of Grid Network
• (using KOREN, APII Testbed, KREONet2,
  HPCNet, etc.)
• Grid application project survey and support
• (Bio, CFD, Meteo, etc.)
• Grid related RD and standardization
• (Grid middleware Grid browser, etc.)
• Promotion for sharing of high performance
  computers and
• large-scaled research instruments
• (Supercomputer, Storage, etc.)
• Construction of Grid Forum Korea
• (Include gov., univ., research inst., etc.)

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NGrid Project (4/6)
Leap for World Top 5 Country in Knowledge
Infrastructure
(Enhancement of National Competitiveness)
Increase Research Power for fundamental Science
and Industry Application ? Activation of NGI
Business Application
Execution of Grid Application Project
Emerging Industry IT, BT, NT, ET, etc.
Industry Semiconductor, Car, Steel, Machinery,
etc.

Supercomputers
NGrid
GRID Project
Large capacity Storages
Survey Support

Research Instruments
(NGI Killer Appl.)
Creative Experts
Grid Middleware
Internet 1 2
High Speed Network/ATM
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NGrid Project (5/6)

• KISTI is the leading edge institution
• Selected research partners from academia,
  industry, and government lab through a public
  competition
• 13 partners in constructing Grid infrastructure
  (e.g., Construction of national supercomputer
  Grid)
• 8 partners in Grid middleware researches (e.g.,
  Grid technology for high-end Grid environment)
• 10 partners in Grid applications RD (e.g.,
  Virtual Wind Tunnel using Grid)
• 2 partners in Grid standardization of Grid
  middleware technology (e.g., GridIR WG, DAIS WG)

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NGrid Project (6/6)

• GFK (Grid Forum Korea)
• The Grid organization in Korea (878 members from
  254 organizations 25 WGs as of Aug. 2003)
• Its support is included in the NGrid project
•  GFK 2002 Summer Workshop (July 11-12, 2002, 280
  participants)
•  GFK 2002 Winter Workshop (Dec. 10-11, 2002, 200
  participants)
• GFK 2003 Summer Workshop (Aug. 19-21, 2003, 220
  participants)

Working Groups Application Area 10 WGs
Middleware Area 6 WGs  Network Area 2 WGs
Etc. 7 WGs
Participating Individuals Government Institution
41 University 95 Research Institute 475
Industry 267
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Plans for Activating NGrid
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Plans Implementation of Grid Testbed (1/2)

• Implementation of Computing Grid Testbed
• Public supercomputer 8
• HPC PC Cluster 8

KIST
UOS
KIAS
KMA
SNU
KISTI
SAIT
KAIST
KISTI
CNU
POSTECH
KOREN, APII, TEIN, STARTAP KREONET2, HPCNET
KJIST
PNU
DIU
Supercomputer
Cluster
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Plans Implementation of Grid Testbed (2/2)

• Implementation of Access Grid Testbed
• Large Scale Storage 8
• VR System 3
• Access Grid System 3

EVL
SNU
KMA
NCSA
KMA
SAIT
KISTI
Grid Middleware
KISTI
CNU
KOREN, APII, TEIN, STARTAP KREONET2, HPCNET
Access Grid System
KJIST
VR System
Storage
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Plans Development of Grid System (1/4)

• Development of NGrid Portal System
• Providing Grid log-in, distributed file transfer,
  collection and integration of results, monitoring
  of Grid resources jobs, etc

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Plans Development of Grid System (2/4)

• Development of Grid Advanced Information Service
  System
• Providing the integration function of multiple
  resources query interfaces, dynamic state
  information, dynamic virtual organization
  information, etc

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Plans Development of Grid System (3/4)

• Development of MoreDream Resource Management
• Supporting the functions of the Resource
  discovery, co-allocation, job submission, job
  monitoring, etc.

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Plans Development of Grid System(4/4)

• Development of NGrid CA System
• Supporting the functions of the Web-interface,
  PKI, key automatic generation/management/search,
  etc.

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Plans Research on Grid Applications

• Application Researches on ITIT, ITBT, ITNT,
  based on Grid
• Applications for the large-volume and repeated
  computation
• Applications for massively parallel environment
  which are can divided and analyzed
• Bio, new drug, ST, NT, ET, Computer Graphic
  (Rendering), etc.

• Construction of bio-informatics portal grid
• Computational chemistry and Nano materials
• Molecule simulation of Bio/Nano materials
• Electronic structure computational Grid
• Nano materials computational Grid
• Comprehensive environmental flow model
• Large-scale finite element analysis technique on
  GRID environment
• Design shape optimization technology using
  virtual wind tunnel based on Grid
• Realization of virtual design development Grid
  system
• Heat exchanger design under the Grid environment

Examples
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Plans Implementation of Grid NOC

• Construction of Logical Grid Network and
  Technical Support using National International
  Network

MIC
Implementation Operation
Establish Policies
Resources
GRID Forum
Supercomputer/Cluster, Visualization System
(SeeMore) Science Technology Information DB
C
C
GRID-NOC

• Bandwidth Allocation
• User Connecting Control/Management
• Network Facility Management/Operation
• Network Security/Engineering

A
B
B
A
Interconnection
Interconnection
KREONet/HPCNet/KREONet2
KOREN
APII-Testbed

• National Size (Backbone over 15 areas)
• - Joining Institute about 300 RD Institutes
• RD Exclusive Korea-Japan and Korea-USA Links

• Korea-Japan, Korea-Singapore Link
• Korea-USA Link(via Japan)

• Backbone over 5 areas
• Joining Institute 32 RD Institutes

Domestic RD Research Network
A Requirement of common use of
national/international RD network / Support of
scientific technology application resources B
Requirement of scientific technology application
resources / support sharing of RD network
resources C Control of user connection
(providing connection channel between domestic
RD network)
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Plans Strategy for NGrid Project (1/2)

• Phased implementation of NGrid infrastructure
• Exhibitory implementation from computing Grid
• Phased plans
• Year 2002-2004
• Implementation of Computing Grid
• Implementation of Grid mobile access environment
• Research on exhibitory applications
• Year 2005-2006
• Implementation of Data Grid
• Implementation of Virtual Realization Grid
• Research on specific applications
• Year 2007-2011
• Implementation of scientific research equipment
  Grid
• Implementation of open Grid

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Plans Strategy for NGrid Project (2/2)
Phase III (2007-2011)
Phase II (2005-2006)
Phase I (2002-2004)
Scientific Research Equipment Grid
Data Grid
Computing Grid
Computing Grid
Data Grid
Computing Grid
Access Grid
Access Grid
Access Grid
Scientific Research Equipment Grid
Data Grid
Access Grid
Computing Grid
Phase
Electron microscopy
Storage centric
Access Grid system centric
Medium and large size computing centric
I (2002-2004)
Electron liner accelerator
DB centric
Virtual realization system centric
Including medium and small size computer
II (2005-2006)
Virtual wind tunnel equipment
Integration of Data Grid
Integration of Access Grid
Supporting mobile Grid
III (2007-2011)
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Plans Milestones
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Summary

• The goal of the NGrid project is to build a
  national Grid infra as a high performance
  research cyber infra.
• The NGrid project is to enhance research
  productivity in the fields of science and
  technology.
• The future direction of NGrid project will be
  emphasized on the activation of Grid technology
  research
• - by participating in GGF WG/RGs for the
  international
• Grid technology standardization,
• - by implementing international standard
  Grid testbeds, and
• - by developing of Grid Middleware and
  applications.

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