Using Gateway system to provide a desktop access to high performance computational resources

Author

Akarsu, Erol ; Fox, Geoffrey ; Haupt, Tomasz ; Kalinichenko, Alexey ; Kim, Kang-Seok ; Sheethaalnath, Praveen ; Youn, Choon-Han

Author_Institution

Northeast Parallel Archit. Center, Syracuse Univ., NY, USA

fYear

1999

fDate

1999

Firstpage

294

Lastpage

298

Abstract

In this paper, we discuss the use of Gateway for seamless desktop access to high performance resources. We illustrate our ideas with two Gateway applications that require access to remote resources: the Landscape Management System (LMS) and Quantum Simulations (QS). For LMS we use Gateway to retrieve data from many different sources as well as to allocate remote computational resources needed to solve the problem at hand. Gateway transparently controls the necessary data transfer between hosts for the user. Quantum Simulations requires access to HPCC resources and therefore we layered Gateway on top of the Globus metacomputing toolkit. This way Gateway plays the role of a job broker for Globus

Keywords

client-server systems; online front-ends; resource allocation; user interfaces; Gateway system; Globus metacomputing toolkit; Landscape Management System; Quantum Simulations; data retrieval; data transfer control; desktop access; high performance computational resources; hosts; job broker; remote computational resource allocation; remote resource access; Application software; Computational modeling; High performance computing; Java; Least squares approximation; Network servers; Portals; Resource management; Service oriented architecture; Web server;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

High Performance Distributed Computing, 1999. Proceedings. The Eighth International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Redondo Beach, CA

ISSN

1082-8907

Print_ISBN

0-7803-5681-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/HPDC.1999.805309

Filename

805309