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The Sicilian Grid Infrastructure for High Performance Computing

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  • Carmelo Marcello Iacono-Manno

    (Consorzio COMETA, Italy)

  • Marco Fargetta

    (Consorzio COMETA, Italy)

  • Roberto Barbera

    (Consorzio COMETA, Italy, and Università di Catania, Italy)

  • Alberto Falzone

    (NICE srl, Italy)

  • Giuseppe Andronico

    (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Italy)

  • Salvatore Monforte

    (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Italy)

  • Annamaria Muoio

    (Consorzio COMETA, Italy)

  • Riccardo Bruno

    (Consorzio COMETA, Italy)

  • Pietro Di Primo

    (Consorzio COMETA, Italy)

  • Salvatore Orlando

    (Istituto Nazionale di Astro-Fisica, Palermo, Italy)

  • Emanuele Leggio

    (Consorzio COMETA, Italy)

  • Alessandro Lombardo

    (Consorzio COMETA, Italy)

  • Gianluca Passaro

    (Consorzio COMETA, Italy)

  • Gianmarco De Francisci-Morales

    (Consorzio COMETA, Italy and Università degli Studi di Catania, Catania, Italy)

  • Simona Blandino

    (Consorzio COMETA, Italy and Università degli Studi di Catania, Catania, Italy)

Abstract

The conjugation of High Performance Computing (HPC) and Grid paradigm with applications based on commercial software is one among the major challenges of today e-Infrastructures. Several research communities from either industry or academia need to run high parallel applications based on licensed software over hundreds of CPU cores; a satisfactory fulfillment of such requests is one of the keys for the penetration of this computing paradigm into the industry world and sustainability of Grid infrastructures. This problem has been tackled in the context of the PI2S2 project that created a regional e-Infrastructure in Sicily, the first in Italy over a regional area. Present article will describe the features added in order to integrate an HPC facility into the PI2S2 Grid infrastructure, the adoption of the InifiniBand low-latency net connection, the gLite middleware extended to support MPI/MPI2 jobs, the newly developed license server and the specific scheduling policy adopted. Moreover, it will show the results of some relevant use cases belonging to Computer Fluid-Dynamics (Fluent, OpenFOAM), Chemistry (GAMESS), Astro-Physics (Flash) and Bio-Informatics (ClustalW)).

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  • Carmelo Marcello Iacono-Manno & Marco Fargetta & Roberto Barbera & Alberto Falzone & Giuseppe Andronico & Salvatore Monforte & Annamaria Muoio & Riccardo Bruno & Pietro Di Primo & Salvatore Orlando & , 2010. "The Sicilian Grid Infrastructure for High Performance Computing," International Journal of Distributed Systems and Technologies (IJDST), IGI Global, vol. 1(1), pages 40-54, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:igg:jdst00:v:1:y:2010:i:1:p:40-54
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