Investigating autonomic behaviours in grid-basedcomputational science applications

  • Authors:
  • Shantenu Jha;Manish Parashar;Omer Rana

  • Affiliations:
  • CCT/Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, USA & University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom;Rutgers University, Rutgers, NJ, USA;Cardiff University, Cardiff, United Kingdom

  • Venue:
  • GMAC '09 Proceedings of the 6th international conference industry session on Grids meets autonomic computing
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

Emerging Grid infrastructures present unprecedented opportunities for computational science and engineering, with the potential for fundamental insights into complex phenomenon. However, it also presents unprecedented challenges in terms of its scale, heterogeneity, dynamism and overall complexity that must be addressed before this potential can be realized. Autonomic computing concepts have been effectively used to address similar challenges in enterprise systems and applications; in this paper, we explore the role of autonomic computing to Grid-based computational science applications. Specifically, we use three representative computational applications to motivate Autonomic Computational Science (ACS). Using these applications, we develop a conceptual framework for ACS, consisting of mechanisms, strategies and objectives, and demonstrate how these concepts can be used to express autonomic behaviors. Finally we explore a research agenda towards realizing ACS behaviors and developing self-* patterns for large scale autonomic computational science application.