SI2-SSE: Connecting Cyberinfrastructure with the Cooperative Computing Tools

SI2-SSE：将网络基础设施与协作计算工具连接起来

• 批准号: 1148330
• 负责人: Douglas Thain
• 金额: $ 49.42万
• 依托单位: University of Notre Dame
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2012
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2012-04-15 至 2016-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1148330&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: SI2; SSE; Connecting; Cyberinfrastructure; Cooperative

This project supports the maintenance and development of the Cooperative Computing Tools. This software package is designed to enable non-privileged users toharness hundreds to thousands of cores from multiple clusters, clouds, and grids simultaneously. The main components of the software package include Parrot, a virtual file system that interfaces with multiple distributed storage systems, and Makeflow, a workflow engine that interfaces with multiple computing systems. This project will develop, maintain, and support the software across a wide variety of operating systems and national scale cyberinfrastructure in support of high impact scientific applications in fields such as bioinformatics, biometrics, data mining, high energy physics, and molecular dynamics.Large scale computing systems such as cluster, clouds, and grids now make it easy for end users to purchase large amounts of computing power at the touch of a button. However, these computing systems are difficult to harness because they each present a different user interface, principle of operation, and programming model. This project addresses this problem by supporting the development of the Cooperative Computing Tools, a software package that makes it possible for ordinary computer applications to move seamlessly between different service providers. The software is primarily of interest to researchers in scientific domains that require large amounts of computation. It is currently used by researchers in the fields of bioinformatics, biometrics, data mining, high energy physics, and molecular dynamics.