Nanyang Campus Grid Programme
A Grid is a hardware and software infrastructure that provides a flexible, secure, coordinated resource sharing among dynamic collection of virtual organizations. It has been coined as tomorrow's supercomputer. The World Wide Web has provided an infrastructure on how the information can be shared globally. The objective of the Grid is to extend this functionality further with ubiquitous computation and storage functionality. Just as the Web changes the way we communicate with each other, the Grid will change the way we access to the computation and storage resources.
To make full use of super-computing facilities and high capacity storage systems installed in the various research centers and laboratories throughout the University, there is a pressing need to construct a campus-wide Grid computing infrastructure:
- The campus Grid infrastructure enables users to have fast and easy access of remote resources and concentrate on application development.
- The campus Grid infrastructure supports the development of large applications that cannot be solved by single computer.
- Campus-wide monitoring of resources allows for optimal resource administration and planning. Sharing also improves utilization of expensive resources and increases performance/price ratio.
A portal called ClearingHouse has been set-up to provide web access to the computing and storage resources in the Nanyang Campus Grid. Presently, resources from PDCC(School of Computer Engineering), NCSV (School of Mechanical Engineering), BIRC, IHPC, Temasek Polytechnic and APSTC are connected to form the core resources in the Campus Grid. The Grid Operation and Training Center for the Campus Grid is located at Parallel and Distributed Computing Center, SCE. It provides Grid technical support and management to the community. SUN Microsystems Pte. Ltd. is an active partner in the Nanyang Campus Grid project.
NTU Campus Grid Steering Committee
- Prof Robert Gay, EEE
- Assoc Prof Lee Bu Sung, SCE
- Assoc Prof Cai Wentong, SCE
- Prof Liew Kim Meow, MPE
- Prof Lun Kwok Chan, SBS
- Assoc Prof Yang Zhonghua, EEE
- Asst Prof Ong Yew Soon, SCE
- Andrew Lim, Sun Microsystems
- Simon See, Sun Microsystems
- Steven Mui, Sun Microsystems
- Appie Stoelwinder, APSTC
- Mr. Low Kin Kiong, CITS
NTU Campus Grid Operations
- Mr. Zhang Junwei
