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MPICH-G2: A Grid-Enabled Implementation of the Message Passing Interface
Application development for distributed computing "Grids" can benefit from
tools that variously hide or enable application-level management of critical
aspects of the heterogeneous environment. As part of an investigation of these
issues, we have developed MPICH-G2, a Grid-enabled implementation of the
Message Passing Interface (MPI) that allows a user to run MPI programs across
multiple computers, at the same or different sites, using the same commands
that would be used on a parallel computer. This library extends the Argonne
MPICH implementation of MPI to use services provided by the Globus Toolkit for
authentication, authorization, resource allocation, executable staging, and
I/O, as well as for process creation, monitoring, and control. Various
performance-critical operations, including startup and collective operations,
are configured to exploit network topology information. The library also
exploits MPI constructs for performance management; for example, the MPI
communicator construct is used for application-level discovery of, and
adaptation to, both network topology and network quality-of-service mechanisms.
We describe the MPICH-G2 design and implementation, present performance
results, and review application experiences, including record-setting
distributed simulations.Comment: 20 pages, 8 figure
Global Grids and Software Toolkits: A Study of Four Grid Middleware Technologies
Grid is an infrastructure that involves the integrated and collaborative use
of computers, networks, databases and scientific instruments owned and managed
by multiple organizations. Grid applications often involve large amounts of
data and/or computing resources that require secure resource sharing across
organizational boundaries. This makes Grid application management and
deployment a complex undertaking. Grid middlewares provide users with seamless
computing ability and uniform access to resources in the heterogeneous Grid
environment. Several software toolkits and systems have been developed, most of
which are results of academic research projects, all over the world. This
chapter will focus on four of these middlewares--UNICORE, Globus, Legion and
Gridbus. It also presents our implementation of a resource broker for UNICORE
as this functionality was not supported in it. A comparison of these systems on
the basis of the architecture, implementation model and several other features
is included.Comment: 19 pages, 10 figure
The GRB Library: Grid Computing with Globus in C
none5In this paper we describe a library layered on top of basic Globus services. The library provides high level services, can be used to develop both web-based and desktop grid applications, it is relatively small and very easy to use. We show its usefulness in the context of a web-based Grid Resource Broker developed using the library as a building block, and in the context of a metacomputing experiment demonstrated at the SuperComputing 2000 conference.Aloisio G.; Cafaro M.; Blasi E.; De Paolis L.; Epicoco I.Aloisio, Giovanni; Cafaro, Massimo; Blasi, E.; DE PAOLIS, Lucio Tommaso; Epicoco, Ital
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The Nimrod computational workbench: a case study in desktop metacomputing
The coordinated use of geographically distributed computers, or metacomputing, can in principle provide more accessible and cost- effective supercomputing than conventional high-performance systems. However, we lack evidence that metacomputing systems can be made easily usable, or that there exist large numbers of applications able to exploit metacomputing resources. In this paper, we present work that addresses both these concerns. The basis for this work is a system called Nimrod that provides a desktop problem-solving environment for parametric experiments. We describe how Nimrod has been extended to support the scheduling of computational resources located in a wide-area environment, and report on an experiment in which Nimrod was used to schedule a large parametric study across the Australian Internet. The experiment provided both new scientific results and insights into Nimrod capabilities. We relate the results of this experiment to lessons learned from the I-WAY distributed computing experiment, and draw conclusions as to how Nimrod and I-WAY- like computing environments should be developed to support desktop metacomputing
The Clarens Web Service Framework for Distributed Scientific Analysis in Grid Projects
Large scientific collaborations are moving towards service oriented architecutres for implementation and deployment of globally distributed systems. Clarens is a high performance, easy to deploy Web Service framework that supports the construction of such globally distributed systems. This paper discusses some of the core functionality of Clarens that the authors believe is important for building distributed systems based on Web Services that support scientific analysis
Bipartite electronic SLA as a business framework to support cross-organization load management of real-time online applications
Online applications such as games and e-learning applications fall within the broader category of real-time online interactive applications (ROIA), a new class of âkillerâ application for the Grid that is being investigated in the edutain@grid project. The two case studies in edutain@grid are an online game and an e-learning training application. We present a novel Grid-based business framework that makes use of bipartite service level agreements (SLAs) and dynamic invoice models to model complex business relationships in a massively scalable and flexible way. We support cross-organization load management at the business level, through zone migration. For evaluation we look at existing and extended value chains, the quality of service (QoS) metrics measured and the dynamic invoice models that support this work. We examine the causal links from customer quality of experience (QoE) and service provider quality of business (QoBiz) through to measured quality of service. Finally we discuss a shared reward business ecosystem and suggest how extended service level agreements and invoice models can support this
An Online Resource Scheduling for Maximizing Quality-of-Experience in Meta Computing
Meta Computing is a new computing paradigm, which aims to solve the problem
of computing islands in current edge computing paradigms and integrate all the
resources on a network by incorporating cloud, edge, and particularly
terminal-end devices. It throws light on solving the problem of lacking
computing power. However, at this stage, due to technical limitations, it is
impossible to integrate the resources of the whole network. Thus, we create a
new meta computing architecture composed of multiple meta computers, each of
which integrates the resources in a small-scale network. To make meta computing
widely applied in society, the service quality and user experience of meta
computing cannot be ignored. Consider a meta computing system providing
services for users by scheduling meta computers, how to choose from multiple
meta computers to achieve maximum Quality-of-Experience (QoE) with limited
budgets especially when the true expected QoE of each meta computer is not
known as a priori? The existing studies, however, usually ignore the costs and
budgets and barely consider the ubiquitous law of diminishing marginal utility.
In this paper, we formulate a resource scheduling problem from the perspective
of the multi-armed bandit (MAB). To determine a scheduling strategy that can
maximize the total QoE utility under a limited budget, we propose an upper
confidence bound (UCB) based algorithm and model the utility of service by
using a concave function of total QoE to characterize the marginal utility in
the real world. We theoretically upper bound the regret of our proposed
algorithm with sublinear growth to the budget. Finally, extensive experiments
are conducted, and the results indicate the correctness and effectiveness of
our algorithm
The International Grid (iGrid): Empowering Global Research Community Networking Using High Performance International Internet Services
The Electronic Visualization Laboratory (EVL) at the University of Illinois at Chicago and Indiana University collaborated on a major research demonstration at the IEEE/ACM Supercomputing '98 (SC'98) conference in Orlando, Florida, November 7-13, 1998, to showcase the evolution and importance of global research community networking. Collaborators worked together to solve complex computational problems using advanced high-speed networks to access geographically-distributed computing, storage, and display resources. It is the collection of computing and communication resources that we refer to as the International Grid (iGrid).
This paper presents an overview of the grid testbed, some of the underlying technologies used to enable distributed computing and collaborative problem solving, and descriptions of the applications. It concludes with recommendations for the future of global research community networking, based on the experiences of iGrid participants from the USA, Australia, Canada, Germany, Japan, The Netherlands, Russia, Switzerland, Singapore, and Taiwan
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