The Adaptive Code Kitchen: Flexible Tools for Dynamic Application Composition

Driven by the increasing componentization of scientific codes, the deployment of high-end system infrastructures such as the Grid, and the desire to support high level problem solving primitives, application composition systems have become prevalent in computational science practice. We present the adaptive code kitchen which, as the name connotes, is a loose collection of capabilities to help realize complex adaptive composition scenarios. These include function interception, continuation modification, dynamic process checkpointing and rollback, and runtime recommendation. Using these broad primitives, a computational scientist can specify many ‘recipes’ of adaptivity as complete control systems around native object codes. Runtime systems support then enables loading and linking of native code components, monitoring of performance indicators, consulting a recommender system for algorithmic decisions, and dynamically updating application components in response to the recommendat...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2007
• Where: IPPS
• Authors: Pilsung Kang 0002, Mike Heffner, Joy Mukherjee, Naren Ramakrishnan, Srinidhi Varadarajan, Calvin J. Ribbens, Danesh K. Tafti
• Keywords: Adaptive Code Kitchen, Adaptive Composition Scenarios, Distributed And Parallel Computing, IPPS 2007, Problem Solving Primitives