Customized Plug-in Modules in Metascheduler CSF4 for Life Sciences Applications

Abstract As more and more life science researchers start to take advantages of grid technologies in their work, the demand increases for a robust yet easy to use metascheduler or resource broker. In this paper, we have extended the metascheduler CSF4 by providing a Virtual Job Model (VJM) to synchronize the resource co-allocation for cross-domain parallel jobs. The VJM eliminates dead-locks and improves resource usage for multi-cluster parallel applications compiled with MPICH-G2. Taking 

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2007
• Where: NGC
• Authors: Zhaohui Ding, Xiaohui Wei, Yuan Luo, Da Ma, Peter W. Arzberger, Wilfred W. Li
• Keywords: Communications, Cross-domain Parallel Jobs, Life Science Researchers, NGC 2007, Virtual Job Model