A comprehensive perspective on pilot-job systems

M Turilli, M Santcroos, S Jha - ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR), 2018 - dl.acm.org
Pilot-Job systems play an important role in supporting distributed scientific computing. They
are used to execute millions of jobs on several cyberinfrastructures worldwide, consuming …

Design and performance characterization of radical-pilot on leadership-class platforms

A Merzky, M Turilli, M Titov… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Many extreme scale scientific applications have workloads comprised of a large number of
individual high-performance tasks. The Pilot abstraction decouples workload specification …

Fast automatic step size estimation for gradient descent optimization of image registration

Y Qiao, B van Lew, BPF Lelieveldt… - IEEE transactions on …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Fast automatic image registration is an important prerequisite for image-guided clinical
procedures. However, due to the large number of voxels in an image and the complexity of …

P∗: a model of pilot-abstractions

A Luckow, M Santcroos, A Merzky… - 2012 IEEE 8th …, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Pilot-Jobs support effective distributed resource utilization, and are arguably one of the most
widely-used distributed computing abstractions-as measured by the number and types of …

DIRAC distributed computing services

A Tsaregorodtsev - Journal of Physics: Conference Series, 2014 - iopscience.iop.org
DIRAC Project provides a general-purpose framework for building distributed computing
systems. It is used now in several HEP and astrophysics experiments as well as for user …

Belle-DIRAC Setup for Using Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud: Providing Homogeneous Access to Heterogeneous Computing Resources

R Graciani Diaz, A Casajus Ramo… - Journal of Grid …, 2011 - Springer
The D istributed I nfrastructure with R emote A gent C ontrol (DIRAC) software framework
allows a user community to manage computing activities in a distributed environment …

Belle II production system

H Miyake, R Grzymkowski, R Ludacka… - Journal of Physics …, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
The Belle II experiment will record a similar quantity of data to LHC experiments and will
acquire it at similar rates. This requires considerable computing, storage and network …

WorkWays: interacting with scientific workflows

HA Nguyen, D Abramson, T Kipouros… - Concurrency and …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
WorkWays is a science gateway that supports human‐in‐the‐loop scientific workflows.
Human–workflow interactions are enabled by a dynamic Input Output (IO) model, which …

Using model checking to analyze the system behavior of the LHC production grid

D Remenska, TAC Willemse, K Verstoep… - Future Generation …, 2013 - Elsevier
Abstract DIRAC (Distributed Infrastructure with Remote Agent Control) is the grid solution
designed to support production activities as well as user data analysis for the Large Hadron …

Hybrid distributed computing service based on the DIRAC interware

V Gergel, V Korenkov, I Pelevanyuk, M Sapunov… - Data Analytics and …, 2017 - Springer
Scientific data intensive applications requiring simultaneous use of large amounts of
computing resources are becoming quite common. Properties of applications coming from …