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News

QCG in UMD [12 September 2013] We can officially announce a big success of QosCosGrid that is joining to  EGI Universal Middleware Distribution (UMD). The UMD is a software repository for grid middleware systems and can be seen as Apple App Store or Android Market. The entering of QosCosGrid to UMD means that the system passed restrictive procedures that proved its high maturity and usefulness. Starting from now computing centers accross Europe can easily and safely deploy QCG components on their sites.

QosCosGrid 3.0 [16 July 2013]
A new major release of QCG services has been just published! The 3.0 release includes many improvements that simplify the access to applications and limit the time overhead needed to run or manage jobs in a grid environment. Undoubtedly the newly applied mechanisms, e.g. simplified syntax of QCG-Client commands, enhanced data transfer rate or advanced monitoring capabilities, will allow scientists to concentrate even more on the core of the scientific work.

QCG-Icon 1.4.3 [21 June 2013]
Next version of QCG-Icon is available to download. Since the version 1.0 there were many improvements that wait to be discovered by QCG users.

QCG-Icon presented at EGI Community Forum [16 April 2013]
EGI Community Forum, held this year in Manchester, was the next opportunity to learn how the QosCosGrid stack can support new communities. At one of the booths the  SSRVE application, suppporting numerical simulations in metallurgy, was presented. The application was integrated with the PL-Grid infrastructure using the  QCG-Icon tool. The demonstration movie can be watched on youtube -  link.

Agreement between PSNC and EGI.eu [1 November 2012]
Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Centre has signed  an agreement with the  EGI.eu to integrate the QosCosGrid middleware stack into the European Grid Infrastructure (EGI). QosCosGrid will extend the current capabilities of the EGI e-infrastructure by providing mechanisms for advance reservation and co-allocation of heterogeneous resources.

QCG-Broker 2.8 [5 September 2012]
After 6 months from the last release of QCG-Broker, the next version of the service has been deployed in the PL-Grid infrastructure. Main enhancements include: improved stability, improved performance, more accurate brokering algorithms and implemented support for interactive jobs.

QCG-Icon 1.0 Beta [5 September 2012]
The beta version of the lightweight desktop application enabling remote access to QosCosGrid has been already published. The 1.0 release of QCG-Icon provides many enhancements, but in its current version, may include minor bugs. All comments are welcomed as they help to improve the tool.

Cluster Inula in QCG [20 August 2012] QosCosGrid has been extended with a cluster Inula from PSNC. Thus the QosCosGrid infrastructure offers currently access to 6 PL-Grid clusters.

QCG services update [3 August 2012]
The 2.6 release of the all QCG services is already available for download. The new version was developed with close cooperation between QCG team and various users communities, especially from the PL-Grid and MAPPER projects. Thus the many of offered enhancements is the response to reported opinions and significantly improves the practical usability of grid and cloud computing.

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QosCosGrid

The QosCosGrid (QCG) middleware is an integrated system offering advanced job and resource management capabilities to deliver to end-users supercomputer-like performance and structure. By connecting many distributed computing resources together, QCG offers highly efficient mapping, execution and monitoring capabilities for variety of applications, such as parameter sweep, workflows, MPI or hybrid MPI-OpenMP. Thanks to QosCosGrid, large-scale applications, multi-scale or complex computing models written in Fortran, C, C++ or Java can be automatically distributed over a network of computing resources with guaranteed QoS. The middleware provides also a set of unique features, such as advance reservation and co-allocation of distributed computing resources.

QCG Middleware

QosCosGrid provides:

  • the most efficient remote access to computational resources in a single cluster or many clusters in Poland and Europe,
  • automatic steering of various types of complex computing experiments ranging from multi-parameter sweep studies to cross-cluster executions of parallel applications,
  • fully transparent integration with parallel programming and execution environments like OpenMPI and ProActive located on many computing clusters,
  • support for Quality of Service (e.g. start time) based on advance reservation mechanisms,
  • shorter waiting times and improved resource utilization by hierarchical grid- and local-level job scheduling,
  • management of input and output files in distributed computing clusters,
  • efficient integration between services and queuing systems ensuring high performance and reliability of the overall system,
  • extensible, open and standard based architecture supporting OGF DRMAA, JSDL, BES and HPC Profile with pluggable modules,
  • secure communication channels using transport level (SSL/TLS, X.509) and message level (SAML2.0) mechanisms,
  • delivered together with command-line, graphical, web-based or even mobile phone tools for end users and administrators,
  • fast and reliable installation procedures.

QosCosGrid consists of the following components:

Component Main function Home Page
QCG-Computing Basic Execution Service (BES) supporting advance reservation   QCG-Computing Home Page
QCG-Coordinator Supports QCG-Computing in cross-cluster execution of jobs   QCG-Coordinator Home Page
QCG-Notification Notification capabilities based on WS-Notification   QCG-Notification Home Page
QCG-Broker Resource management and brokering service   QCG-Broker Home Page
QCG-Client Text-based client for QosCosGrid   QCG-Client Home Page
QCG-Icon Lightweight desktop client for QosCosGrid   QCG-Icon Home Page
QCG-Tools Various elements extending the QosCosGrid stack   QCG-Tools Home Page
QCG-Nagios Nagios probes for the QosCosGrid stack   QCG-Nagios Home Page

Interoperability & standards supported

The QosCosGrid implementation is based on the open, widely accepted standards. In general, QosCosGrid supports OGF DRMAA, JSDL, BES, HPC Basic Profile and OASIS WS-Notification.

Further reading

Contact

The QosCosGrid Infrastructude middleware is developed by the team of Applications Department of  Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center

General questions please send to:  qcg@plgrid.pl
Technical questions please send to:  qcg@plgrid.pl