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Web: www.omii.ac.uk Email: [email protected]
OMII-UK LiveCD Demonstrations – Providing
Access to Computational Resources for Researchers
AHM 2009Steve Crouch, Justin Bradley,
Yew Bie Cheng, Richard Boardman
Web: www.omii.ac.uk Email: [email protected]
http://www.omii.ac.uk/wiki/AHM2009
Background
• Evaluating Grid software is difficult!o Just want ‘to have a go’ – determine suitabilityo Non-trivial: installation, configuration, security
• Evaluation should be easyo But not sacrifice demonstration of featureso Provide pre-installed demonstrations of software
using real scientific applicationso Straightforward, minimum number of steps to use
• Time-to-evaluation should be minimalo Obtaining demonstration packageo Initialising the package
Web: www.omii.ac.uk Email: [email protected]
http://www.omii.ac.uk/wiki/AHM2009
What is the LiveCD?
• Based around Slax LiveCD distribution• Designed to run completely from
system RAMo Doesn’t access machine harddisk(s)
• Users can either:o Simply boot normal desktop/laptop from the
CDo From within a virtual machine, boot from .iso
image file
• 2GB RAM recommended!
Web: www.omii.ac.uk Email: [email protected]
http://www.omii.ac.uk/wiki/AHM2009
What’s on the LiveCD?
• Campus Grid Toolkit (CGT)o Includes GridSAM and AHEo Easy to install and use package providing
access to computational and data resources• e.g. PBS, Condor, Sun GridEngine, Globus, LSF
o Demonstrations using computational resources:
• Fractal – calculate a Mandelbrot set, • Primes – calculate prime numbers
o Utilise PBS/Torque cluster (pre-installed) or local ‘fork’
Web: www.omii.ac.uk Email: [email protected]
http://www.omii.ac.uk/wiki/AHM2009
What’s on the LiveCD?
• RAPIDo Design and deliver web portal interfaces to
research applications requiring computational resources
• e.g. PBS, Condor, Sun GridEngine
o RAPID-created portal demonstrations:• RapidDemo – BLAST application – used by
bioinformaticians to take a protein sequence, model it, and attempt to find match in protein database
• MinemDemo – Minem application – physics application to model charge distribution in a plasma