PROJECT – 1: 

Tile:      Infrastructure Development

Grid / Cluster Lab Development

Under this project we intend to create basic High Performance Computing infrastructure for developing and optimizing applications and tools. We propose to create a cluster of SUN workstation and a GRID test bed with SUN Grid Engine and Globus toolkit.

We also propose to configure the cluster and the NAS storage in such a fashion so that we can make best use of Parallel I/O for optimizing applications using SUN parallel file system. Since we have proposed to have SUN machines with RedHat Linux Operating System, we would also like to configure system with PVFS (Parallel Virtual File System) and compare application parallel I/O performance on both file systems. 

IIT Delhi Campus Grid testbed

We propose to expand the Grid to Computer Services Center and other department computing labs within IIT Delhi Campus to develop an IIT Delhi campus Grid testbed. Later we propose to link this Grid testbed with NTU Singapore Grid.

During initial phase of the project, the above students will be participating in setting up the infrastructure of the facility such as configuration and system administration. Some of the above students will spend their time in system maintenance and administration as and when needed despite of their specific projects. 

PROJECT – 2:             Bio-informatics and Weather forecasting Applications Characterization and Tuning on Solaris

 PROJECT – 3:             Participation in collaborative activities with London e-science project on the development of ICENI Grid middleware and application integration.

 We propose to configure ICENI along with SUN GRID engine and Globus toolkit under this project. Application integration is an important aspect of ICENI project, we propose to implement some applications such as Seismic Data Processing, Financial market forecast, Biological modeling, Computational Fluid Dynamics with in ICENI framework.

We also propose to work in collaboration to develop tools and components for complementing ICENI middleware.

 PROJECT – 4:             Applied Interval Arithmetic Research

  -  Target area of applications – Engineering and Bio-informatics

PROJECT – 5:           Education Outreach

(a) Grid / Cluster Courseware development and Organization of Education and Training programs

Education outreach is an important aspect of any technology development.  We propose to develop Courseware on Grid and Cluster computing and organizing Educational and training programs on these HPC technologies.

Grid Evangelism, seminars and workshops

We propose to conduct workshops/seminars under this project to share knowledge among the researchers in the area of High Performance Computing. 

All the participating postgraduate and undergraduate students in APSTF will be actively involved in conducting lectures, hands-on sessions and other organizational activities.

PROJECT –6:              Access Grid

 We propose to set up Access Grid at the local site and in the next phase extending it to remote sites too.