DocumentCode :
2966484
Title :
Building Composite Grid Tasks Using STROLL File-System
Author :
Azab, Abdulrahman ; Meling, Hein
Author_Institution :
Univ. of Stavanger, Stavanger, Norway
fYear :
2013
fDate :
16-18 Dec. 2013
Firstpage :
1
Lastpage :
4
Abstract :
Despite availability of a range of Grid computing platforms, domain specialists and scientists only rarely take advantage of these computing facilities. One reason for this is the complexity of Grid computing, and the need to learn a new programming environment to interact with the Grid. Moreover, users cannot easily deploy their compute tasks to multiple Grid platforms without rewriting their program to use different task submission interfaces. STROLL is a universal filesystem-based interface for seamless task submission to one or more Grid facilities. Users interact with the Grid through simple read and write filesystem commands. STROLL supports simple, i.e. single and batch, and composite, i.e. work-flow tasks. This paper describes how to build composite STROLL tasks in the form of filesystem directory structures. A R code example is described as a use-case, and evaluating the CPU consumption of the user machine shows that implementing a composite task can fairly reduce the computation overhead.
Keywords :
file organisation; grid computing; CPU consumption; STROLL file system; composite grid tasks; composite task; computation overhead; file system directory structures; grid computing platforms; grid facilities; grid platforms; programming environment; seamless task submission; task submission interfaces; universal file system-based interface; user machine; write file system commands; Computational modeling; Computer architecture; Computers; Grid computing; Mathematical model; Monitoring; Stochastic processes;
fLanguage :
English
Publisher :
ieee
Conference_Titel :
IT Convergence and Security (ICITCS), 2013 International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Macao
Type :
conf
DOI :
10.1109/ICITCS.2013.6717810
Filename :
6717810
Link To Document :
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