Cloud Bursting with GlideinWMS: Means to satisfy ever increasing computing needs for Scientific Workflows

Journal Article · Wed Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 2014 · Journal of Physics. Conference Series

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1088/1742-6596/513/3/032069· OSTI ID:1296583

Mhashilkar, Parag ^[1]; Tiradani, Anthony ^[1]; Holzman, Burt ^[1]; Larson, Krista ^[1]; Sfiligoi, Igor ^[2]; Rynge, Mats ^[3]

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1. Fermilab
2. UC, San Diego
3. USC - ISI, Marina del Rey

Scientific communities have been in the forefront of adopting new technologies and methodologies in the computing. Scientific computing has influenced how science is done today, achieving breakthroughs that were impossible to achieve several decades ago. For the past decade several such communities in the Open Science Grid (OSG) and the European Grid Infrastructure (EGI) have been using GlideinWMS to run complex application workflows to effectively share computational resources over the grid. GlideinWMS is a pilot-based workload management system (WMS) that creates on demand, a dynamically sized overlay HTCondor batch system on grid resources. At present, the computational resources shared over the grid are just adequate to sustain the computing needs. We envision that the complexity of the science driven by 'Big Data' will further push the need for computational resources. To fulfill their increasing demands and/or to run specialized workflows, some of the big communities like CMS are investigating the use of cloud computing as Infrastructure-As-A-Service (IAAS) with GlideinWMS as a potential alternative to fill the void. Similarly, communities with no previous access to computing resources can use GlideinWMS to setup up a batch system on the cloud infrastructure. To enable this, the architecture of GlideinWMS has been extended to enable support for interfacing GlideinWMS with different Scientific and commercial cloud providers like HLT, FutureGrid, FermiCloud and Amazon EC2. In this paper, we describe a solution for cloud bursting with GlideinWMS. The paper describes the approach, architectural changes and lessons learned while enabling support for cloud infrastructures in GlideinWMS.

• Research Organization: Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (FNAL), Batavia, IL (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP)
• DOE Contract Number: AC02-07CH11359
• OSTI ID: 1296583
• Report Number(s): FERMILAB-PUB-13-485-CD; 1302038
• Journal Information: Journal of Physics. Conference Series, Vol. 513, Issue 3; ISSN 1742-6588
• Publisher: IOP Publishing
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English