Experiences of On-demand execution for large scale parameter sweep applications on OSG by swift

Zhengxiong Hou, Mike Wilde, Mihael Hategan, Xingshe Zhou, Ian Foster, Ben Clifford

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Abstract

Large scale parameter sweep application (PSA) is one of the main grid applications, which may have different characteristics and demands. In this paper, we describe how to use swift to enable the on-demand execution of large scale PSA on open science grid (OSG). The basic on-demand concept means providing appropriate grid resources for the application, which is decided by the characteristics and demands of the application. So we can get high reliability, efficiency, and scalability for large scale independent PSA jobs on OSG. The main on-demand policies include: trust based site selection and pre-selection; scheduling policy on-demand configuration; clustering for small jobs; adaptive execution and automatic data staging; divide and conquer for the scalability. Some usage examples of swift for executing large scale PSA are presented, such as dock, blast. The experimental results for the performance of different policies are presented, with a benchmarking workload size of 10,000 jobs.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2009 11th IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing and Communications, HPCC 2009
Pages527-532
Number of pages6
DOIs
StatePublished - 2009
Event11th IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing and Communications, HPCC 2009 - Seoul, Korea, Republic of
Duration: 25 Jun 200927 Jun 2009

Publication series

Name2009 11th IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing and Communications, HPCC 2009

Conference

Conference11th IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing and Communications, HPCC 2009
Country/TerritoryKorea, Republic of
CitySeoul
Period25/06/0927/06/09

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