Job submission to grid computing environments

  • Authors:

  • R. P. Bruin;T. O. H. White;A. M. Walker;K. F. Austen;M. T. Dove;R. P. Tyer;P. A. Couch;I. T. Todorov;M. O. Blanchard

  • Affiliations:

  • Department of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge, Downing Street, Cambridge CB2 3EQ, U.K.;Department of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge, Downing Street, Cambridge CB2 3EQ, U.K.;Department of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge, Downing Street, Cambridge CB2 3EQ, U.K.;Department of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge, Downing Street, Cambridge CB2 3EQ, U.K.;Department of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge, Downing Street, Cambridge CB2 3EQ, U.K.;STFC, Daresbury Laboratory, Warrington, Cheshire WA4 4AD, U.K.;STFC, Daresbury Laboratory, Warrington, Cheshire WA4 4AD, U.K.;STFC, Daresbury Laboratory, Warrington, Cheshire WA4 4AD, U.K.;Département de Minéralogie, Institut de Minéralogie et de Physique des Milieux Condensés, Campus Boucicaut, 140 rue de Lourmel, 75015 Paris, France

  • Venue:
  • Concurrency and Computation: Practice & Experience - UK e-Science All Hands Meeting 2006
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

The problem of enabling scientist users to submit jobs to gridcomputing environments will eventually limit the usability ofgrids. The eMinerals project has tackled this problem bydeveloping the 'my_condor_submit' (MCS) tool, which provides asimple scriptable interface to Globus, a flexible interaction withthe storage resource broker, metascheduling with load balancingwithin a grid environment, and automatic metadata harvesting. Thispaper provides an overview of MCS together with a use case. We alsodescribe the use of MCS within parameter-sweep studies. Copyright© 2008 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.