DEISA—Distributed European Infrastructure for Supercomputing Applications

Abstract

The paper presents an overview of the current research and achievements of the DEISA project, with a focus on the general concept of the infrastructure, the operational model, application projects and science communities, the DEISA Extreme Computing Initiative, user and application support, operations and technology, services, collaborations and interoperability, and the use of standards and policies. The paper concludes with a discussion about the long-term sustainability of the DEISA infrastructure.

A new optimization phase for scientific workflow management systems

“…by e-science infrastructures such as DEISA [17] or XSEDE [18]. Access to these computing infrastructures is mainly provided via Grid middleware systems, such as UNICORE [19] (UNiform Interface to COmputing REsources), ARC [20] (Advanced Resource Connector), or Globus Toolkit [21].…”

Enhanced Resource Management Enabling Standard Parameter Sweep Jobs for Scientific Applications

“…From usage and deployment perspective UNICORE has been deployed on production e-Science infrastructures such as DEISA [2] and PRACE [3]. At the time of writing it is being considered as a HPC middleware service platform deployed on supercomputing centers taking part in the XSEDE project [4].…”

“…(1) Use Taverna Client as working environment Taverna Client plugin (2) Open standard-based job submission This enables researchers to focus on their scientific problems rather than 'thinking technically' how these parallel jobs can be separated across different target systems. In addition, the server-side handling of the generation of potentially tens, hundreds or thousands of JSDLs lowers the load of Taverna clients.…”

HPC on the Grid: The Theophys Experience

“…The analogue European initiative is PRACE (Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe) [25] which is a EU funded project established to create a permanent pan-European High Performance Computing service for research. The project incorporate the previous initiative, DEISA (Distributed European Infrastructure for Supercomputing Applications) [26], which was completed in April 2011. PRACE is composed by more than 20 partners, whose HPC facilities are organized in a hierarchical model.…”