Executing Large Parameter Sweep Applications On A Multi-VO Testbed

Publication
Ayyub, S., Abramson, D., Enticott, C., Garic, S., Tan, J. “Executing Large Parameter Sweep Applications on a Multi-VO Testbed”, 7th IEEE International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid, CCGrid 2007, Los Alamitos CA USA, pp 73 – 80
Abstract
Applications that span multiple virtual organizations (VOs) are of great interest to the eScience community. However, recent attempts to execute large-scale parameter sweep applications (PSAs) with the Nimrod/G tool have exposed problems in the areas of fault tolerance, data storage and trust management. In response, we have implemented a task-splitting approach, which breaks up large PSAs into a sequence of dependent subtasks, improving fault tolerance; provides a garbage collection technique, which deletes unnecessary data; and employs a trust delegation technique that facilitates flexible third party data transfers across different VOs.
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