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Campus grids meet applications: Modeling, metascheduling and integration. (English) Zbl 1096.92054

J. Grid Comput. 4, No. 2, 159-175 (2006).
Summary: Air Quality Forecasting (AQF) is a new discipline that attempts to reliably predict atmospheric pollution. An AQF application has complex workflows and in order to produce timely and reliable forecast results, each execution requires access to diverse and distributed computational and storage resources. Deploying AQF on Grids is one option to satisfy such needs, but requires the related Grid middleware to support automated workflow scheduling and execution on Grid resources.
We analyze the challenges in deploying an AQF application in a campus Grid environment and present our current efforts to develop a general solution for Grid-enabling scientific workflow applications in the GRACCE project. In GRACCE, an application’s workflow is described using GAMDL, a powerful dataflow language for describing application logic. The GRACCE metascheduling architecture provides the functionalities required for co-allocating Grid resources for workflow tasks, scheduling the workflows and monitoring their execution. By providing an integrated framework for modeling and metascheduling scientific workflow applications on Grid resources, we make it easy to build a customized environment with end-to-end support for application Grid deployment, from the management of an application and its dataset, to the automatic execution and analysis of its results.

MSC:

92D40 Ecology
93A30 Mathematical modelling of systems (MSC2010)
92-04 Software, source code, etc. for problems pertaining to biology
93C95 Application models in control theory
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