Title :
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
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;
Conference_Titel :
High Performance Distributed Computing, 1999. Proceedings. The Eighth International Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Redondo Beach, CA
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-5681-0
DOI :
10.1109/HPDC.1999.805309
