TY - GEN
T1 - The anatomy of successful ECSS projects
T2 - 1st Conference of the Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment: Bridging from the eXtreme to the Campus and Beyond, XSEDE12
AU - Romanus, Melissa
AU - Mantha, Pradeep Kumar
AU - McKenzie, Matt
AU - Bishop, Thomas C.
AU - Gallichio, Emilio
AU - Merzky, Andre
AU - El Khamra, Yaakoub
AU - Jha, Shantenu
PY - 2012
Y1 - 2012
N2 - The Extended Collaborative Support Service (ECSS) of XSEDE is a program to provide support for advanced user requirements that cannot and should not be supported via a regular ticketing system. Recently, two ECSS projects have been awarded by XSEDE management to support the high-throughput of high-performance (HTHP) molecular dynamics (MD) simulations; both of these ECSS projects use a SAGA-based Pilot-Jobs approach as the technology required to support the HTHP scenarios. Representative of the underlying ECSS philosophy, these projects were envisioned as three-way collaborations between the application stakeholders, advanced/research software development team, and the resource providers. In this paper, we describe the aims and objectives of these ECSS projects, how the deliverables have been met, and some preliminary results obtained. We believe the structure of the ECSS program enables targeted projects that address missing gaps in making distributed cyberinfrastructure systems more productive. We also describe how SAGA has been deployed on XSEDE in Community Software Area as a necessary precursor for these projects.
AB - The Extended Collaborative Support Service (ECSS) of XSEDE is a program to provide support for advanced user requirements that cannot and should not be supported via a regular ticketing system. Recently, two ECSS projects have been awarded by XSEDE management to support the high-throughput of high-performance (HTHP) molecular dynamics (MD) simulations; both of these ECSS projects use a SAGA-based Pilot-Jobs approach as the technology required to support the HTHP scenarios. Representative of the underlying ECSS philosophy, these projects were envisioned as three-way collaborations between the application stakeholders, advanced/research software development team, and the resource providers. In this paper, we describe the aims and objectives of these ECSS projects, how the deliverables have been met, and some preliminary results obtained. We believe the structure of the ECSS program enables targeted projects that address missing gaps in making distributed cyberinfrastructure systems more productive. We also describe how SAGA has been deployed on XSEDE in Community Software Area as a necessary precursor for these projects.
KW - ECSS projects
KW - SAGA
KW - distributed computing
KW - high performance
KW - high throughput
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U2 - 10.1145/2335755.2335843
DO - 10.1145/2335755.2335843
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84865342859
SN - 9781450316026
T3 - ACM International Conference Proceeding Series
BT - Proceedings of the XSEDE12 Conference
Y2 - 16 July 2012 through 19 July 2012
ER -