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Basuki Suhardiman

basuki@itb.ac.idInstitut Teknologi Bandung, Indonesia

Grid Activities in

Indonesia

Presentation Outline

• Early Development

• Objectives

• inGRID

• Recent Activities

– Weather Prediction Application

– Computational Chemistry

– Bioinformatics and Biomedics

– Mitigation of Natural Diaster

• Further Development

Early Development

• ITB’s connected to the TEIN2/3 Network

• Research on Grid in Indonesia started around 2006,

together with the development of INHERENT

(Indonesia Higher Education Network)

• INHERENT is Indonesian national Research and

Education Network that is connecting more than 200

universities in Indonesia.

TEIN3 Network Infrastructure

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Inherent Network 2009

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Objectives

• Utilize computational resources available in

universities or research institutes in Indonesia to

develop grid computing infrastructure.

inGrid

• inGrid or Indonesian Grid infrastructure developed

by University of Indonesia using UCLA Grid Portal

consisting Globus Toolkit 4 grid middleware and

Gridsphere grid portlet framework.

http://grid.ui.ac.id/

http://grid.ui.ac.id/

inGrid Deployment Status

• Grid computing in Indonesia is still new beginning

• Start with several universities and start with less

than 50 computers

• inGrid utilize the INHERENT

inGrid Deployment Status (cont.)

• There are now (2008) two clusters connected to inGrid;

they are one production cluster from Faculty of

Computer Science UI, and one research cluster.

• Some application are available in the research

cluster, they are:

– Povray (3.1g) – gcc

– mpiBLAST – g77

– GNU Octave – GROMACS

Recent Activities

• In 2008 ITB join the EUAsiaGrid Project, whose

among the objectives are:

– Assisting regional integration to the wider Grid

Infrastructure,

– Capturing local e-Science requirements,

– Promoting common e-Science applications, both

existing and new ones,

http://www.euasiagrid.org

Recent Activities (cont.)

• Among existing Grid Application, ITB will be focused on:

– Weather prediction model

– Computational Chemistry

– Bioinformatics and Biomedical

– Mitigation of Natural Disasters

• ITB will also support local application to have benefit

from the use of the Grid, that is Weather Prediction

application

• ITB is building the Site for supporting the application on

Grid Technology and applications needed big

computational resources (weather model prediction).

• 3 – 5 CPU Connected to VO

Weather Prediction Application

• Weather prediction application running in ITB is the

only one weather prediction application in Indonesia.

• Currently using several computers for running the

computation.

– 32 Core

– Using PVM

• The data generate every 3 hours

Weather Prediction Application (cont.)

• This application is using MODIS data from

satellite image1 to generate weather forecast

information and displayed in a web page.

• Parameters used for this application like Infrared and

Water vapor are plotted to TBB (Temperature Black

Body) over Maritime Continent.

• The data model compare to the local weather station

1downloaded from Konichi University in Japan

Weather monitoring based on geostationary satellite (MTSAT)

infra red (IR) channel 1 (wavelength : 10.3-11.3 µm) imagery.

Water Vapor Channel

OLR and 10 Meter Hwind Analysis (shaded and

vector) for Asian Region

Convective Rainfall and 10 Meter Wind Analysis

(shaded and vector)

WRF Comparison

JMA-NHM Comparison

Temperature

Equiv . Potential Temperature

Cloud Water

MM5 Table (weather data computation result)

WRF Table (weather data computation result)

Weather prediction for ‘user’

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Weather Prediction Application (cont.)

• Due to the limited computation resource the

computation only done for weather forecast in

Java region. With the Grid program, the weather

prediction could be done with the more spesific

location and calculation.

Computational Chemistry

• Several universities in Indonesia try to build

the computational chemistry with limited

resources in computing power.

• One of the users are Chemisty are

Department of Chemistry in ITB and using

several computers to perform some

chemistry computations.

• By using grid infrastructure, those

computetion can be performed faster and in

larger scale

Bioinformatics & Biomedics

• The Bioinformatics in Indonesia are beginning

around three years ago. The activity is still using

several computers with the paralel virtual machine

(PVM), for the application in genome squence

analysis.

• ITB wants to mirror the Genome data bank and made

squence analysis for the new structure especially in

Indonesia. The squences analysis require the high

performance computing and grid facilities .

• With the TEIN3 Network , ITB has build the bio-

informatics mirror with the collaboration with APAN

(Asia Pacific Advanced Network).

Mitigation of Natural Disaster

• Many related activities and research in disaster management

had been done by ITB’s Center for Disaster Mitigation (CDM).

The activity of the CDM is in response to the national needs in

reducing disaster impact. The Mitigation of Natural Disasters

application surely will benefit the research performed in

disaster mitigation area.

• The focus area of the Disaster mitigation are Hazard map for

the mitigation and the vulnerabilities.

– The Hazard map focus on the seismic hazard map, earthquake hazard map, and

information hazard map for the mitigation (peoples).

– The vulnerabilities focus on the risk impact factors and risk area for infrastructure

such as road, electricity, water and other impact to the peoples.

• The development of this domain need for digitization, modeling

and visualization in data processing that demands Grid-

enabled high performance computing

Future Development

• To disseminate the state of art Grid technology in

Indonesia and assist e-Science Community in

Indonesia to connect to the Grid

• Integrate the available Grid Infrastructure in

Indonesia to the wider Grid Infrastructure

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Next Plan

• Future Plan for the 2nd Project Year(April 2009-March 2010)

– Setup and porting the application to Grid Infrastructure

– Dissemination the EUAsiaGrid to other Univ in Indonesia

– Conference on the Grid technology (Aug 2009)

– Training (July 2009 or Aug 2009)

• System administrator

• Develop the infrastructure for the VO

• Porting the application to the Grid Infrastructure

– Support the user for migrating the application to Grid

Bibliography

• “Rancangan Infrastruktur inGrid”, Grid Computing Research

Group, Fakultas Ilmu Komputer Universitas Indonesia, 2007.

• “Specifications And Requirements Of The Applications”,

EUAsiaGrid, 2009.

• inGrid website, http://grid.ui.ac.id

• EUAsiaGrid website, http://www.euasiagrid.org

• WCPL Experimental Weather Forecast,

http://weather.geoph.itb.ac.id/