Grid-enabling a vibroacoustic analysis application
Bentow, B.
Dodge, J.
Homer, A.
Moore, C.D.
Keller, R.M.
Presley, M.
Davis, R.
Seidel, J.
Lee, C.
Betser, J.
Harvey Mudd Coll., Claremont, CA, USA;
This paper appears in: Grid Computing, 2005. The 6th IEEE/ACM International Workshop on
Publication Date: 13-14 Nov. 2005
On page(s): 7 pp.-
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ISBN: 0-7803-9492-5
INSPEC Accession Number: 8885476
Digital Object Identifier: 10.1109/GRID.2005.1542721
Current Version Published: 2005-12-05
Abstract
This paper describes 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 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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