Abstract-Today's scientific computing infrastructures provide scientists with easy access to a wide variety of computing resources. However, migrating applications to new computing sites can be tedious and time consuming. When optimal performance is not a concern, scientists can benefit by moving binaries instead of source code. Our work aims to make migration of MPI application binaries more efficient by automation. We present general methods that assess if binaries are a good match for execution at computing sites. We also present methods for increasing execution readiness by resolving missing shared libraries. Our work aims to free scientists from extensive manual preparation at new sites. To evaluate the effectiveness of our methods, we present an automated Linux-based implementation called FEAM, a Framework for Efficient Application Migration. We show that FEAM is more than 90% accurate at predicting execution readiness of MPI application binaries from the NAS Parallel and SPEC MPI2007 benchmark suites. In our evaluation, only half of the migrated binaries execute successfully at sites configured with a matching MPI implementation. We show that by automatically resolving shared libraries requirements, FEAM is able to increase the number of successful executions by a third
