System management for grid-enabling a vibroacoustic analysis application

Brian Bentow, Jon Dodge, Aaron Homer, Christopher D. Moore, Robert M. Keller, Matthew Presley, Robert Davis, Jorge Seidel, Craig Lee, Joseph Betser

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Abstract

System management aspects are described for the process of grid-enabling a vibroacoustic analysis application using the Globus Toolkit 3.2.1. This is the first step in a project intended to grid-enable a suite of tools being developed as a service-oriented enterprise architecture for spacecraft telemetry analysis. Many of the applications in the suite are compute intensive and would benefit from significantly improved performance. In this paper we show the advantage of using Globus to grid-enable a single tool in a vibroacoustic analysis flow, with the result that using as few as eleven nodes, that tool's runtime improved by a factor of eight. While communication overhead does affect performance, these results also indicate that coordinated communication and execution scheduling as part of workflow management would be able to significantly improve overall efficiency. In the larger context, our experience also shows that the service-oriented architecture approach, using grid computing tools, can provide a more flexible system design, in addition to improved performance and increased utilization of resources. We also provide some lessons learned in using the Globus Toolkit.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publication10th IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium, NOMS 2006
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
ISBN (Print)1424401429, 9781424401420
DOIs
StatePublished - 2006
Event10th IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium, NOMS 2006 - Vancouver, BC, Canada
Duration: Apr 3 2006Apr 7 2006

Publication series

NameIEEE Symposium Record on Network Operations and Management Symposium

Conference

Conference10th IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium, NOMS 2006
Country/TerritoryCanada
CityVancouver, BC
Period4/3/064/7/06

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Hardware and Architecture
  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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