Advances in the ProGenGrid Workflow Management System

Author

Mirto, Maria ; Cafaro, Massimo ; Epicoco, Italo ; Aloisio, Giovanni

Author_Institution

Univ. of Salento, Lecce

fYear

2008

fDate

1-4 Dec. 2008

Firstpage

538

Lastpage

543

Abstract

A large-scale simulation in e-science experiments can be modeled by using a workflow. The ProGenGrid workflow management system is being developed at the University of Salento in Lecce since 2004 and consists of an editor for designing the experiment and an engine for scheduling the jobs in a computational grid. The initial version was based on wrapping the bioinformatics tools as Web services and scheduling job execution on the grid by using an opportune engine. Then the engine was optimized to support batch, parameter and MPI jobs by using the Globus Toolkit. This component was developed as part of the grid resource broker project. In this paper, we present the latest advances regarding the editorpsilas new features such as on line monitoring, and the enginepsilas support for scheduling jobs on other grid middleware such as gLite and Unicore.

Keywords

Web services; grid computing; middleware; workflow management software; Globus toolkit; ProGenGrid workflow management system; Web service; computational grid; e-science; large-scale simulation; middleware; opportune engine; Bioinformatics; Computational modeling; Engines; Grid computing; Job design; Large-scale systems; Processor scheduling; Web services; Workflow management software; Wrapping; Grid Computing; Grid Workflow Management System; Meta scheduler;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Parallel and Distributed Computing, Applications and Technologies, 2008. PDCAT 2008. Ninth International Conference on

Conference_Location

Otago

Print_ISBN

978-0-7695-3443-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PDCAT.2008.60

Filename

4711029