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OVERVIEW

Grid computing aims to offer tools and mechanisms that enable the sharing, selection, and aggregation of a wide variety of geographically distributed computational resources in a transparent way. The research done in this team is based in the former expertise of the group, and extending it towards the aspects of grid computing that can benefit from this expertise. The main topics that has been tackled by the team are: MPI prediction in grid environments, programming models for the grid, and resource management and scheduling in grid environments. The research in grid computing is concentred mainly in two internal research projects: GRID superscalar and eNANOS. Besides, the center is involved in the following projects: Business Experiments in Grid (BEinGRID), Business Objective-drive Reliable and Intelligent Grids for Busines (BREIN), CoreGRID Network of execellence , DEISA Distributed European Infraestructure for Supercomputing Applications, HPC Europa, Latin American Grid, The Spanish Thematic Network in Grid Middleware , XtreemOS, OGF Europe and IS-ENES


OBJECTIVES

  • Do research and development in programming environments for grid and clusters. Specifically, the objective is to offer tools and environments that enable to develop applications that are transparent to the underlying computational grid (grid-unaware applications). What is more, techniques as concurrency exploitation will be apploied to efficiently execut the application in the grid.
  • Do research and development in meta-scheduling, monitoring and prediction for grid environments. This research is specially focused to enable grids of parallel computers and to efficiently run parallel applications (MPI, OpenMP or mixed) in these environments.
  • Maintain and manage a small grid with BSC-CNS resources and its connections to external resources, with the objective of testing BSC-CNS research developments in grid and allowing to connect to grid projects' testbeds.


PROJECTS/AREAS

  • GRID Superscalar: GRID superscalar is a Grid programming environment that allows to simply program applications that will be efficiently run on a computational Grid. GRID superscalar is able to parallelize, at runtime and at task level, a sequential application and execute the application in a computational Grid. The used approach is able to take benefit from those applications that are composed of coarse grained tasks. These tasks can be of the size of a simulation, a program, a solver... These kinds of applications are very common in bioinformatics, computational chemistry and other scientific fields.
  • eNANOS: The eNANOS project aims to provide an execution platform for parallel applications on distributed heterogeneous systems, from clusters of shared memory machines to interoperable Grid systems. Its main research activity is on the field of resource management and scheduling for distributed heterogeneous systems. The proposed strategies focus on providing a good scheduling support at the lowest scheduling layers to improve the higher scheduling layers of the architecture. Moreover, they are oriented towards improving the job execution performance (in terms of slowdown) and maximizing the resource utilization.



PEOPLE
arrowALVAREZ, JAVIER , RESEARCH SUPPORT ENGINEER
arrowARROYO VALERA, XAVIER , VISITOR
arrowBADIA SALA, ROSA MARIA , GRID COMPUTING GROUP MANAGER
arrowBELLENS, PIETER , RESIDENT STUDENT
arrowCIESKO, JAN , RESIDENT STUDENT
arrowCORBALAN GONZALEZ, JULITA , ASSOCIATE RESEARCHER
arrowEJARQUE, JORGE , RESEARCHER
arrowELANGOVAN, VINOTH , RESIDENT STUDENT
arrowETINSKI, MAJA , RESIDENT STUDENT
arrowFOINA, AISLAN , VISITOR
arrowGARCIA GASULLA, MARTA , RESEARCHER
arrowLEZZI, DANIELE , RESEARCHER
arrowLORDAN GOMIS, FRANCESC , RESIDENT STUDENT
arrowMARTINELL ANDREU, LUIS , RESIDENT STUDENT
arrowPEREZ CANCER, JOSE MARIA , RESEARCHER
arrowPLANAS, JUDIT , RESIDENT STUDENT
arrowRAFANELL MAS, ROGER , RESIDENT STUDENT
arrowRAMIREZ, VANESSA , VISITOR
arrowSCHILLER, ANNIKA , HPC VISITOR
arrowSIRVENT PARDELL, RAUL , RESEARCHER
arrowTEJEDOR, ENRIC , RESIDENT STUDENT UPC-BSC


PUBLICATIONS AND COMMUNICATIONS


Publications

Journals

J. Ejarque, M. de Palol, I. Goiri, F. JuliĂ , J. Guitart, R. Badia, and J. Torres. Exploiting Semantics and Virtualization for SLA-driven Resource Allocation in Service Providers. Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, Vol. 22 (5), pp. 541-572, ISSN: 1532-0634 , April 2010.

Rosa M. Badia, Dennis Gannon, Craig Lee. Special section: Selected papers from the 7th IEEE/ACM international conference on grid computing (Grid2006). Future Generation Computer Systems, , May 2008.
Vol: 24, Issue: 5, pags: 402-403

F. Guim, I. Rodero, J. Corbalan, J. Labarta, A. Oleksiak, J. Nabrzyski. Uniform Job Monitoring in the HPC-Europa Project: Data Model, API and Services. International Journal of Web and Grid Services, Vol 3, Nş 3, , August 2007.

F. Guim, I. Rodero, J. Corbalán, J. Labarta. Portal de Acceso a Recursos HPC en Entornos Grid. Boletín RedIRIS 80,
, April 2007.

Raül Sirvent, Rosa M. Badia, Pieter Bellens, Vasilis Dialinos, Jesús Labarta, Josep M. Pérez. Demostración de uso de GRID superscalar. Boletín RedIRIS, no. 80, , April 2007.

Goyeneche, Ariel and Guim, F. and Rodero, I. and Terstyanszky, Gabor and Corbalan, J. Extracting performance hints for Grid Users using data mining techniques: a case study in the NGS. Mediterranean Journal of Computers and Networks SPECIAL ISSUE on Data Mining Applications on Supercomputing and Grid Environments Volume 3, No. 2,p 52-61, , April 2007.

S. Reyes, C. Muńoz-Caro, A. Nińo, R. M. Badia and J. M. Cela. Performance of computation-intensive, parameter sweep applications on Internet-based Grids of computers. The mapping of molecular potential energy hypersurfaces. Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, Vol. 19, No. 4 , March 2007.

Raul Sirvent, Josep M. Perez, Rosa M. Badia and Jesus Labarta. Automatic Grid workflow based on imperative programming languages . Concurrency and Computation: Practice and experience, Vol.18. Issue 10. Pages: 1169-1186. , August 2006.

Julita Corbalan, Xavier Martorell, Jesus Labarta. Performance-Driven Processor Allocation. IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, 16(7), pp. 599-611, July 2005.

R. M. Badia, Jesús Labarta, Raúl Sirvent, Josep M. Pérez, José M. Cela and Rogeli Grima. Programming Grid Applications with GRID superscalar . Journal of GRID Computing, Vol. 1 Issue 2. Pages: 151-170 , June 2003.

Book chapters

M. Ejdys, U. Herman-Izycka, N. Lal, T. Kielmann, E. Tejedor and R.M. Badia. Integrating Application and System Components with the Grid Component Model. From Grids to Service and Pervasive Computing, , August 2008.

Rosa M. Badia, Gargi Dasgupta, Onyeka Ezenwoye, Liana Fong, Howard Ho, Sawsan Khuri, Yanbin Liu, Steve Luis, Anthony Praino, Jean-Pierre Prost, Ahmed Radwan, Seyed Masoud Sadjadi, Shivkumar Shivaji, Balaji Viswanathan, Patrick Welsh, and Akmal Younis. Innovative Grid Technologies Applied to Bioinformatics and Hurricane Mitigation. High Performance Computing and Grids in Action, , March 2008.
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E. Tejedor, R. Badia, T. Kielmann and V. Getov. A Component-Based Integrated Toolkit. Making Grids Work, CoreGRID series, Vol 7, pp 139-152. M. Danelutto, P. Fragopoulou and V. Getov, Eds. Springer., January 2008.

I.Rodero, F.Guim, J.Corbalan, J.Labarta, A.Oleksiak, K.Kurowski, J.Nabrzyski. Integration of the eNANOS execution framework with GRMS for GRID purposes. Achievements in European Research on Grid Systems, Pages 25-39 , January 2008.

Rosa Badia, Raül Sirvent, Marian Bubak, Wlodzimierz Funika and Piotr Machner. Performance monitoring of GRID superscalar with OCM-G/G-PM: Integration Issues. Achievements in European Research on Grid Systems, Pages 193-205 , January 2008.

Elżbieta Krępska, Thilo Kielmann, Raül Sirvent and Rosa Badia. A Service for Reliable Execution of Grid Applications. Achievements in European Research on Grid Systems, Pages 179-192 , January 2008.

Raül Sirvent, Rosa Badia, Natalia Currle-Linde, Michael Resch. GRID superscalar and GriCoL: Integrating Different Programming Approaches. Achievements in European Research on Grid Systems, Pages 139-150 , January 2008.

Ani Anciaux-Sedrakian, Rosa M. Badia, Raul Sirvent, Josep M. Perez, Thilo Kielmann, Andre Merzky. GRID superscalar and Job Mapping on the Reliable Grid Resources. Making Grids Work, CoreGRID series, , January 2008.

Rosa M. Badia, Raul Sirvent, Marian Bubak, Wlodzimierz Funika, Piotr Machner. Performance Monitoring of Grid Superscalar with OCM-G/G-PM: Tuning and Improvements. Making Grids Work, CoreGRID series, , January 2008.

Raül Sirvent, Josep M. Pérez, Rosa M. Badia, Róbert Lovas, Gergely Sipos and Péter Kacsuk. GRID superscalar enabled P-GRADE portal. Integrated Research in GRID Computing, pages 241-254 , November 2007.

K. Kurowski, A. Oleksiak, J. Nabrzyski, A. Kwiecien, M. Wojtkiewicz, M. Dyvzkowski, F. Guim, J. Corbalan, J. Labarta. Multi-criteria Grid Resource Management using Performance Prediction Techniques. Integrated Research in GRID Computing, Pages 215-225 , November 2007.

Raül Sirvent, Josep M. Pérez, Rosa M. Badia, Jesus Labarta. Programación en el Grid: una aproximación basada en lenguajes imperativos. Computación Grid: del Middleware a las Aplicaciones, pp. 33-52, , June 2007.

Rosa M. Badia, Raul Sirvent, Jesus Labarta, Josep M.P erez. Programming the GRID: An Imperative Language Based Approach . book chapter in Engineering the Grid, Section 4, Chapter 12 , January 2006.

International Conferences

Jorge Ejarque, Enric Tejedor, Daniele Lezzi, RaĂźl Sirvent, Rosa M. Badia. Supporting Parallel Tasks with GRID superscalar. 4th Iberian Grid Infraestructure Conference, , May 2010.

I. Goiri, F. Julia, J. Ejarque, M. de Palol, R. Badia, J. Guitart, and J. Torres. Introducing Virtual Execution Environments for Application Lifecycle Management and SLA-Driven Resource Distribution within Service Providers. 8th IEEE International Symposium on Network Computing and Applications (NCA'09), Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, pp. 211-218, ISBN: 978-0-7695-3698-9 , July 2009.

Raül Sirvent, Rosa M. Badia and Jesús Labarta. Graph-based task replication for workflow applications. In 11th IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing and Communications, HPCC 2009, pp. 20-28, Seoul (South Korea), , June 2009.

Xingchen Chu, Rajkumar Buyya, Enric Tejedor, Rosa M. Badia. A Novel Approach for Realising Superscalar Programming Model on Global Grids. Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on High-Performance Computing in Asia-Pacific Region (HPC Asia 2009),, , May 2009.

J. Ejarque, M. de Palol, I. Goiri, F. Juliŕ, J. Guitart, R. Badia, and J. Torres. SLA-Driven Semantically-Enhanced Dynamic Resource Allocator for Virtualized Service Providers. 4th IEEE International Conference on e-Science (e-Science 2008), Indianapolis, Indiana, USA, pp. 8-15, ISBN: 978-0-7695-3535-7, December 2008.

Rosa M. Badia, Du Du, Eduardo Huedo, Antonis Kokossis, Ignacio Martín Llorente, Rubén S. Montero, Marc de Palol, Raúl Sirvent and Constantino Vázquez. Integration of GRID superscalar and GridWay Metascheduler with the DRMAA OGF Standard. Proceedings of the Euro-Par Conference 2008, , August 2008.

J.Ejarque, M. de Palol, I. Goiri, F. Juliŕ, J. Guitart, J.Torres and R. M. Badia. Using Semantic Technologies for Resource Allocation in Computing Service Providers. 5th IEEE International Conference on Services Computing (SCC 2008), Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, pp. 583-587 (Work-in-Progress Paper), ISBN: 978-0-7695-3283-7, July 2008.

Enric Tejedor and Rosa M. Badia.. COMP Superscalar: Bringing GRID superscalar and GCM Together. 8th IEEE International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid 2008, Lyon, , May 2008.

F. Guim, J. Corbalan, J. Labarta. Prediction of based Models for Evaluating Backfilling Scheduling Policies. 8th International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing, Applications and Technologies, , December 2007.

F. Guim, Julita Corbalan, Jesus Labarta. Modeling the impact of resource sharing in Backfilling Policies using the Alvio Simulator. 5th Annual Meeting of the IEEE International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis, and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication System, , October 2007.

Ivan Rodero, Francesc Guim, Julita Corbalan, Jesus Labarta. Design and Implementation of a General-Purpose API of Progress and Performance Indicators. Parallel Computing 2007, , September 2007.

Seyed Masoud Sadjadi, J. Martínez, T. Soldo, L. Atencio, Rosa M. Badia, J. Ejarque. Improving Separation of Concerns in the Development of Scientific Applications. International Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering, , July 2007.

R. M. Badia, P. Bellens, J. Ejarque, J. Labarta, M. de Palol, J. M. Pérez, R. Sirvent and E. Tejedor. SSH GRID superscalar: a Tailored Version for Cluster. 1st Iberian Grid Infrastructure Conference (IBERGRID). Santiago de Compostela (Spain), , May 2007.

S. Reyes, A. Nińo, C. Muńoz-Caro, R. Sirvent and R. M. Badia. Monitoring Large Sets of Jobs in Internet-Based Grids of Computers. 1st Iberian Grid Infrastructure Conference (IBERGRID). Santiago de Compostela (Spain), , May 2007.

Josep M. Perez, Rosa M. Badia, Jesus Labarta. Including SMP in Grids as execution platform and other extensions in GRID superscalar. IEEE International Conference on e-Science and Grid Computing (eScience 2006), , December 2006.

Róbert Lovas, Raül Sirvent, Gábor Hermann, Josep M. Pérez, Rosa M. Badia, Péter Kacsuk. Dynamic workflows in the service-oriented P-GRADE portal using GRID superscalar. 2nd Austrian Grid Symposium. Innsbruck., , September 2006.

I. Rodero, F. Guim, J. Corbalán, J. Labarta. How the JSDL can Exploit the Parallelism?. 6th IEEE International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid, , May 2006.

F. Guim, I. Rodero, J. Corbalán,J. Labarta, A. Oleksiak, T. Kuczynski, D. Szejnfeld,J. Nabrzyski. Uniform Job Monitoring using the HPC-Europa Single Point of Access. International Workshop on Grid Testbeds, in conjuntion with CCGrid2006, , May 2006.

I. Rodero, F. Guim, J. Corbalán, J. Labarta. eNANOS: Coordinated Scheduling in Grid Environments. Parallel Computing (ParCo) 2005, Granada, Spain, September 2005.

Vasilis Dialinos, Rosa M. Badia, Raul Sirvent, Josep M. Perez y Jesus Labarta. Implementing Phylogenetic Inference with GRID superscalar. Cluster Computing and Grid 2005 (CCGRID 2005), Cardiff, UK, May 2005.

I. Rodero, J. Corbalán, R.M. Badia, J. Labarta. eNANOS Grid Resource Broker. European Grid Conference 2005, LNCS 3470, pp. 111-121, Amsterdam, February 2005.

National Conferences

Rosa M. Badia, Pieter Bellens, Marc de Palol, Jorge Ejarque, Jesús Labarta, Josep M. Pérez, Raül Sirvent and Enric Tejedor. GRID superscalar: from the Grid to the Cell processor. Spanish Conference on e-Science Grid Computing. Madrid (Spain), , March 2007.

I. Rodero, F. Guim, J. Corbalán, J. Labarta. Extension of the JSDL for Parallel Jobs. XVII Jornadas de Paralelismo, pp. 295-300, Albacete, Spain, , September 2006.

Rosa M. Badia, Pieter Bellens, Vasilis Dialinos, Jorge Ejarque, Jesús Labarta, Josep M. Pérez and Raül Sirvent. The GRID superscalar project: Current status. XVII Jornadas de Paralelismo. Albacete (Spain), , September 2006.

F. Guim, J. Corbalán, J. Labarta. Analyzing LoadLeveler historical information for performance prediction. XVI Jornadas de Paralelismo, Granada, Spain, September 2005.

I. Rodero, J. Corbalán, A. Duran, J. Labarta. Soporte para el análisis de workloads en el proyecto eNANOS. XVI Jornadas de Paralelismo, Granada, Spain, September 2005.

Workshops

M. Ejdys, U. Herman-Izycka, N. Lal, T. Kielmann, E. Tejedor and R. Badia,. Integrating Application and System Components with GCM. CoreGRID Symposium 2008, , August 2008.

Enric Tejedor, Rosa M. Badia, Paul Naoumenko, Marcela Rivera and Cédric Dalmasso. Orchestrating a safe functional suspension of GCM components. CoreGRID Integration Workshop. Integrated Research in Grid Computing, , April 2008.

Attila Kertész, Ivan Rodero and Francesc Guim. Meta-Borkering Approaches in State-Of-The-Art Grid Resource Management. CoreGRID Integration Workshop. Integrated Research in Grid Computing, , April 2008.

Rosa M.Badia, Raül Sirvent, Marian Bubak, Wlodzimierz Funika, Piotr Machner. Performance Monitoring of Grid Superscalar:Visualization Models. CoreGRID Integration Workshop. Integrated Research in Grid Computing, , April 2008.

S. Masoud Sadjadi, Liana Fong, Rosa M. Badia, Javier Figueroa, Javier Delgado, Xabriel J. Collazo-Mojica, Khalid Saleem, Raju Rangaswami, Shu Shimizu, Hector A. Duran Limon, Pat Welsh, Sandeep Pattnaik, Anthony Praino, David Villegas, Selim Kalayci, Gargi Dasgupta, Onyeka Ezenwoye, Juan Carlos Martinez, Ivan Rodero, Shuyi Chen, Javier Muńoz, Diego Lopez, Julita Corbalan, Hugh Willoughby, Michael McFail, Christine Lisetti, Malek Adjouadi. Transparent grid enablement of weather research and forecasting. Workshop on Grid-Enabling Applications, Proceedings of the 15th ACM Mardi Gras conference, Baton Rouge (EUA), , January 2008.

Francesc Guim, Ivan Rodero, Julita Corbalan, A.Goyeneche. The Grid Backfilling: a Multi-Site Scheduling Architecture with Data Mining Prediction Techniques. CoreGRID Workshop in Grid Middleware 2007, , June 2007.

Francesc Guim, Ivan Rodero, Julita Corbalan, Jesus Labarta. Towards Uniform and Transparent Access to the Grid Universe Information Using the Palantir. CoreGRID Workshop in Grid Middleware 2007, , June 2007.

Rosa M. Badia, Raul Sirvent, Marian Bubak, Wlodzimierz Funika, Piotr Machner. Performance Monitoring of Grid Superscalar with OCM-G/G-PM: Tuning and Improvements. CoreGRID Workshop on Grid Programming Model Grid and P2P Systems Architecture Grid Systems, Tools and Environments, , June 2007.

Enric Tejedor, Rosa M. Badia , Thilo Kielmann, Vladimir Getov. A Component-Based Integrated Toolkit. CoreGRID Workshop on Grid Programming Model, Grid and P2P Systems Architecture, Grid Systems, Tools and Environments, Heraklion, Crete (Greece), , June 2007.

Francesc Guim, Julita Corbalan. A Job Self-Scheduling Policy for HPC Infrastructures. 13th Workshop on Job Scheduling Strategies for Parallel Processing (In Conjunction with ICS 2007), , June 2007.

I. Rodero,F. Guim, J. Corbalan, L.L. Fong, Y.G. Liu, S.M. Sadjadi. Looking for an Evolution of Grid Scheduling: Meta-brokering. CoreGRID Workshop in Grid Middleware 2007, , June 2007.

Ani Anciaux-Sedrakian, Rosa M. Badia, Raul Sirvent, Josep M. Perez, Thilo Kielmann, Andre Merzky. GRID superscalar and Job Mapping on the Reliable Grid Resources. CoreGRID Workshop on Grid Programming Model Grid and P2P Systems Architecture Grid Systems, Tools and Environments, , June 2007.

Rosa M. Badia, Marian Bubak, Wlodzimierz Funika, and Marcin Smetek. Performance monitoring of GRID superscalar applications with OCM-G. CoreGRID integration workshop. Integrated Research in Grid Computing, , December 2005.

Rosa M. Badia, Olav Beckmann, Marian Bubak, Denis Caromel, and Vladimir Getov, Stavros Isaiadis, Vladimir Lazarov, Maciek Malawski, Sofia Panagiotidi, and Jeyarajan Thiyagalingam. Lightweight Grid Platform: Design Methodology. CoreGRID integration workshop. Integrated Research in Grid Computing, , December 2005.

S. Reyes, C. Muńoz-Caro, A. Nińo, R. M. Badia, and J. M. Cela. Development and performance of a grid computing approach to the massive exploration of potential energy hypersurfaces for spectroscopic studies. The Nineteenth Colloquium on High Resolution Molecular Spectroscopy, Salamanca, Spain, December 2005.

Raül Sirvent, Andre Merzky, Rosa M. Badia, and Thilo Kielmann. GRID superscalar and SAGA: forming a high-level and platform-independent Grid programming environment. CoreGRID integration workshop. Integrated Research in Grid Computing, , November 2005.

F. Guim, A. Goyeneche, J. Corbalan, J. Labarta, G. Terstyansky. Grid computing performance prediction based in historical information. CoreGRID integration workshop. Integrated Research in Grid Computing Workshop, , November 2005.

R. M. Badia, Jesús Labarta, Raúl Sirvent, J. M. Cela and Rogeli Grima. Grid superscalar: a programming paradigm for GRID applications. Workshop on Grid Applications and Programming Tools (GGF8), , June 2003.

Communications

Daniele Lezzi, Rosa M. Badia. OGF-Europe on Software development tools for distributed computing . OGF25, , March 2009.
Catania (Sicilia, Italia)

Raül Sirvent. GRID superscalar y sus nuevas caracterí­sticas de tolerancia a fallos. Escuela de Verano en Computación Grid: del Middleware a las Aplicaciones. Albacete, , June 2007.

Raul Sirvent. GRID superscalar. Curso de Postgrado CSIC de Grids y e-Ciencia. Santander, , September 2007.

Rosa M. Badia. Platform Unaware Programing Models. DPA Workshop !, Edinburgh, , May 2007.

Raül Sirvent. GRID superscalar: from the Grid to the cell processor. 9th HLRS Metacomputing and Grid Workshop, , July 2006.

 
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