Transcript OSCAR-ENGAGE Refactoring – Progress and Future Work

OMII-UK LiveCD Demonstrations –
Providing Access to Computational
Resources for Researchers
AHM 2009
Steve Crouch, Justin Bradley, Yew Bie
Cheng, Richard Boardman
Web: www.omii.ac.uk
Email: [email protected]
Background
• Evaluating Grid software is difficult!
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Just want ‘to have a go’ – determine suitability
Non-trivial: installation, configuration, security
• Evaluation should be easy
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But not sacrifice demonstration of features
Provide pre-installed demonstrations of software using real
scientific applications
Straightforward, minimum number of steps to use
• Time-to-evaluation should be minimal
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Obtaining demonstration package
Initialising the package
http://www.omii.ac.uk/wiki/AHM2009
Web: www.omii.ac.uk
Email: [email protected]
What is the LiveCD?
• Based around Slax LiveCD distribution
• Designed to run completely from system RAM
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Doesn’t access machine harddisk(s)
• Users can either:
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Simply boot normal desktop/laptop from the CD
From within a virtual machine, boot from .iso image file
• 2GB RAM recommended!
http://www.omii.ac.uk/wiki/AHM2009
Web: www.omii.ac.uk
Email: [email protected]
What’s on the LiveCD?
• Campus Grid Toolkit (CGT)
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Includes GridSAM and AHE
Easy to install and use package providing access to
computational and data resources
• e.g. PBS, Condor, Sun GridEngine, Globus, LSF
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Demonstrations using computational resources:
• Fractal – calculate a Mandelbrot set,
• Primes – calculate prime numbers
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Utilise PBS/Torque cluster (pre-installed) or local ‘fork’
http://www.omii.ac.uk/wiki/AHM2009
Web: www.omii.ac.uk
Email: [email protected]
What’s on the LiveCD?
• RAPID
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Design and deliver web portal interfaces to research
applications requiring computational resources
• e.g. PBS, Condor, Sun GridEngine
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RAPID-created portal demonstrations:
• RapidDemo – BLAST application – used by bioinformaticians to
take a protein sequence, model it, and attempt to find match in
protein database
• MinemDemo – Minem application – physics application to model
charge distribution in a plasma
http://www.omii.ac.uk/wiki/AHM2009
Web: www.omii.ac.uk
Email: [email protected]