Bridging the High Performance Computing Gap: the OurGrid Experience

Author

Brasileiro, Francisco ; AraÙjo, Eliane ; Voorsluys, William ; Oliveira, Milena ; Figueiredo, Flávio

Author_Institution

Dept. de Sist. e Comput., Univ. Fed. de Campina Grande, Campina Grande

fYear

2007

fDate

14-17 May 2007

Firstpage

817

Lastpage

822

Abstract

High performance computing is currently not affordable for those users that cannot rely on having a highly qualified computing support team. To cater for these users´ needs we have proposed, implemented and deployed OurGrid. OurGrid is a peer-to-peer grid middleware that supports the automatic creation of large computational grids for the execution of embarrassingly parallel applications. It has been used to support the OurGrid Community - a public free-to-join grid that is in production since December 2004. In this paper we show how the OurGrid Community has been used to support the execution of a number of applications. Further we discuss the main benefits brought up by the system and the difficulties that have been faced by the system developers and the users and managers of the OurGrid Community.

Keywords

grid computing; middleware; peer-to-peer computing; OurGrid experience; high performance computing; peer-to-peer grid middleware; public free-to-join grid; Application software; Biology computing; Computational modeling; Computer simulation; Grid computing; High performance computing; Middleware; Peer to peer computing; Power system management; Production;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Cluster Computing and the Grid, 2007. CCGRID 2007. Seventh IEEE International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Rio De Janeiro

Print_ISBN

0-7695-2833-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CCGRID.2007.28

Filename

4215457