Chinagrid Two is about to start pushing cloud service

August 22, the sixth session of the Chinagrid 2011 Academic Conference in Dalian successfully held. At this conference, Zol reporter had the honor to see Professor Cheng of Tsinghua University, from which to understand the chinagrid from early development to the present some basic situation.

Looking back over the past few years to chinagrid a period of work, Professor Cheng to Zol reporters that can be summed up in three aspects:

One is to build a real grid, will participate in the grid project in the number of universities from the first 12 to 22, the aggregation of computing and storage capacity reached 16 trillion times and 180TB;

The second is to develop the network middleware cgsp--This set of software developed by the people themselves by the United States "the father of the grid" highly appraised;

Finally, in the Chinagrid phase, the main development and deployment of the five application grids, which are bio-information grid, image processing grid, computational fluid dynamics grid, mass information processing grid and university courseware grid, these grids each day more than 30,000 visitors.

"What we can offer now is a package of services that can now be called the cloud of biological information services." "There was no cloud computing," said Prof Zheng, "the grid practice started as early as 2002, in fact, the early form of cloud computing." ”

In the past, teachers in different colleges and universities in the research projects, the need to compare their own data and other university teachers, many schools need to query the database, not only the process cumbersome and extremely inefficient. And the use of bioinformatics grid, the research institutions only need to submit their own data to the system, where the comparison and data analysis unified by the system to deal with, to the final system will automatically generate results and sent to the data submitter.

According to other sources, the National Development and Reform Commission in March this year has approved the Chinagrid two-phase construction project, by then, Chinagrid will be in the original based on the new atmosphere environment, materials, computer base three areas, developed into 8 key subject cloud, for more academic departments to provide cloud services. At the same time, in order to meet the needs of higher computing and storage capabilities, Chinagrid will be funded by the building of 7 centers and 7 centers, the university members can use the application process can be used by these 14 high-performance computers, so as to solve the previous resource allocation problems.