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QosCosGrid

QosCosGrid could be viewed as a quasi-opportunistic supercomputer whose computational performance exceeds the power offered by a single supercomputing or data center. QosCosGrid is designed as a multi-layered architecture that is capable of dealing with computationally intensive large-scale, complex and parallel simulations that are usually too complex to run within a single computer cluster or machine. The QosCosGrid middleware enables computing resources (at the level of processor cores) from different administrative domains to be combined into a single powerful computing resource via Internet. Clearly, bandwidth and latency characteristics of the Internet may have an affect on overall application performance of QosCosGrid-enabled applications. However, the ability to connect and efficiently control advanced applications executed in parallel over the Internet is a feature that is highly appreciated by QosCosGrid users.

The QosCosGrid framework is highly flexible as it is composed of pluggable components that can be easily modified to support different scheduling and access policies to better maximize a diversity of utility functions. Furthermore, the framework exploits novel algorithms for topology-aware co-allocations that are required by parallel programming and execution set-ups in production-level high-performance computing environments, such as the Message Passing Interfaces (MPI), ProActive, or their hybrid extensions linking programming models like OpenMP or CUDA.

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QCG BES/AR

QCG BES/AR (the successor of the OpenDSP project) is an open architecture implementation of SOAP Web service for multi-user access and policy-based job control routines by various queuing and batch systems managing local computational resources. This key service is using Distributed Resource Management Application API (DRMAA) to communicate with the underlying queuing systems. QCG BES/AR has been designed to support a variety of plugins and modules for external communication as well as to handle a large number of concurrent requests from external clients and services. Consequently, it can be used and integrated with various authentication, authorization and accounting services or to extend capabilities of existing e-infrastructures based on Unicore, gLite, Globus Toolkit, and others. QCG BES/AR service is compliant with the OGF HPC Basic Profile specification, which serves as a profile over Open Grid Forum standards like JSDL and OGSA Basic Execution Service. In addition, it offers remote interfaces for advance reservation management, and supports basic file transfer mechanisms. QCG BES/AR was successfully tested with the following queuing systems: Sun Grid Engine (SGE), Platform LSF, Torque/Maui, PBS Pro, Condor, Apple !XGrid and LoadLeveler. Therefore, as a crucial component in QosCosGrid, it can be easily set up on the majority of computing clusters and supercomputers running the aforementioned queuing systems. Currently, advance reservation capabilities in QCG BES/AR are exposed for SGE, Platform LSF and Maui (a scheduler that is typically used in conjunction with Torque). Moreover, generic extensions for advance reservation have been proposed for the next DRMAA standard release.

QCG Notification

QCG Notification is an open-source implementation of the family of WS-Notification standards (version 1.3). In the context of QosCosGrid, it is used to extend features provided by QCG BES/AR by adding standards-based synchronous and asynchronous notification features. QCG Notification supports the topic-based publish/subscribe pattern for asynchronous message exchange among Web services and other entities, in particular services or clients that want to be integrated with QosCosGrid. The main part of QCG Notification is based on a highly efficient, extended version of the NotificationBroker, managing all items participating in notification events. Today, QCG Notification offers sophisticated notification capabilities, e.g., topic and message content notification filtering, pull-and-push styles of transporting messages. QCG Notification has been integrated with a number of communication protocols as well as various Web services security mechanisms. The modular architecture of QCG Notification makes it relatively straightforward to develop new extensions and plugins to meet new requirements.