TY - GEN
T1 - System management for grid-enabling a vibroacoustic analysis application
AU - Bentow, Brian
AU - Dodge, Jon
AU - Homer, Aaron
AU - Moore, Christopher D.
AU - Keller, Robert M.
AU - Presley, Matthew
AU - Davis, Robert
AU - Seidel, Jorge
AU - Lee, Craig
AU - Betser, Joseph
PY - 2006
Y1 - 2006
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
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U2 - 10.1109/noms.2006.1687615
DO - 10.1109/noms.2006.1687615
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:42749102067
SN - 1424401429
SN - 9781424401420
T3 - IEEE Symposium Record on Network Operations and Management Symposium
BT - 10th IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium, NOMS 2006
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 10th IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium, NOMS 2006
Y2 - 3 April 2006 through 7 April 2006
ER -