DATE: 2008/03/11

NCHC-Grid Computing Portal (NCHC-GCE Portal)

Project Manager: Dr. Weicheng HuangDeveloped Team: Chien-Lin Eric Huang Chien-Heng Gary Wu Yi-Lun Serena PanE-mail: serenapan.nchc.org.twNational Center for High-performance Computing, Taiwan

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ContentsMotivation of our workThe integrated grid architectureNCHC’s Grid Computing TestbedNCHC-GCE Portal & Portlets

Aim at generic grid computing applications

Workflow PortletJob Submission Portlet

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MotivationProvide basic Grid Computing EnvironmentWithout re-inventing the wheelThe lower barrier of using Grid Computing resources

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The Integrated Grid Architecture

Storage, networks, computers, display devices, and their associated local services

Protocols, authentication, policy, instrumentation,Resource management, discovery, and events

DataGrid

Resource Broker

RemoteVisualization

RemoteSensors…

High EnergyPhysics Cosmology Chemical

Engineering Climate Astrophysics…Applications

Application Toolkits

Grid Services

Grid Fabric

Portal

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Grid Computing Environment

Globus ToolkitCA Authentication

Backend testbed

Opteron cluster Nacona cluster

Formosa Ext.2 cluster

DB Server

MyProxy Server – gcenode1serena gcenode2

CA ServerPortal Server

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Aim at the generic HPC computing applications

Storage, networks, computers, display devices, and their associated local services

Protocols, authentication, policy, instrumentation,Resource management, discovery, and events

Applications

Application Toolkits

Grid Services

Grid Fabric

Portal

Generic HPC applications

Grid Middleware(Globus Toolkit)

Command line tools

portlet

portlet

portlet

Workflow

Portlet

GridFTP

GRAM…

Portal provides user interface

and several portlets

Workflow portlet provides two components

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Workflow PortletPurpose

Workflow-oriented computational Grid applicationsSupports the creation and execution of workflow-based Grid applications in a Job Description Language (JDL)

Grid Services supported by the portletGRAM jobGridFTP

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Grid Portal – Workflow PortletGrid Portal – Workflow PortletDemo

http://gceportal.nchc.org.tw:8080Myproxy PortletMPI Job – Povray Program

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Grid Portal – Job Submission PortletGrid Portal – Job Submission PortletJava programs for job submissionThe components of Job Submission Portlet:

Interactive Mode: displays the output in real timeHybrid Mode: writes into a file and also displays output in real timeBatch Mode: writes into a file and then GridFTP to local machine

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Grid Portal – Job Submission PortletGrid Portal – Job Submission PortletDemo – Interactive mode

http://gceportal.nchc.org.tw:8080Listening for Job Status Updates and Job OutputThe GASS Server

Starting the GASS ServerReceiving Output from GASSStoring into MySQL DataBase

MPI JobGaussian Job

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ReferencesGrid

http://www-fp.mcs.anl.gov/~foster/Globus

http://www.globus.org/MyProxy

http://grid.ncsa.uiuc.edu/myproxy/NSF Middleware Initiative

http://www.nfs-middleware.org/Liferay

http://www.liferay.com/JSR-168

http://www.jcp.org/aboutJava/communityprocess/review/jsr168/

NCHChttp://www.nchc.org.tw/

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Thank You!!