Communications of the ACM
Conducting experiments with Experiment Manager
WSC '96 Proceedings of the 28th conference on Winter simulation
The grid: blueprint for a new computing infrastructure
The grid: blueprint for a new computing infrastructure
Nimrod: a tool for performing parametrised simulations using distributed workstations
HPDC '95 Proceedings of the 4th IEEE International Symposium on High Performance Distributed Computing
High Performance Parametric Modeling with Nimrod/G: Killer Application for the Global Grid?
IPDPS '00 Proceedings of the 14th International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing
On-line instrumentation for simulation-based optimization
Proceedings of the 38th conference on Winter simulation
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Planning and steering numerical experiments that involve many simulations are difficult tasks to automate. We describe how a simulation scheduling tool can help experimenters submit and revoke simulation jobs on the basis of the most up to date partial results and resource estimates. We show how ideas such as pre- and post-conditions; interrupt handling; rapid experiment schema creation; and sparse parameter cross-products can be used to make a generalisable and user-friendly scheduling toolset. We describe our prototype in the context of typical long-running computational experiments of a complex networks simulation problem.