UltraScan gateway enhancements: In collaboration with TeraGrid advanced user support

Borries Demeler; Raminderjeet Singh; Marlon Pierce; Emre H. Brookes; Suresh Marru; Bruce Dubbs

doi:10.1145/2016741.2016778

UltraScan gateway enhancements: In collaboration with TeraGrid advanced user support

Borries Demeler, Raminderjeet Singh, Marlon Pierce, Emre H. Brookes, Suresh Marru, Bruce Dubbs

Chemistry and Biochemistry

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Abstract

The Ultrascan gateway provides a user friendly web interface for evaluation of experimental analytical ultracentrifuge data using the UltraScan modeling software. The analysis tasks are executed on the TeraGrid and campus computational resources. The gateway is highly successful in providing the service to end users and consistently listed among the top five gateway community account usage. This continued growth and challenges of sustainability needed additional support to revisit the job management architecture. In this paper we describe the enhancements to the Ultrascan gateway middleware infrastructure provided through the TeraGrid Advanced User Support program. The advanced support efforts primarily focused on a) expanding the TeraGrid resources incorporate new machines; b) upgrading UltraScan's job management interfaces to use GRAM5 in place of the deprecated WS-GRAM; c) providing realistic usage scenarios to the GRAM5 and INCA resource testing and monitoring teams; d) creating general-purpose, resource-specific, and UltraScan-specific error handling and fault tolerance strategies; and e) providing forward and backward compatibility for the job management system between UltraScan's version 2 (currently in production) and version 3 (expected to be released mid-2011).

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the TeraGrid 2011 Conference
Subtitle of host publication	Extreme Digital Discovery, TG'11
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/2016741.2016778
State	Published - 2011
Event	TeraGrid 2011 Conference: Extreme Digital Discovery, TG'11 - Salt Lake City, UT, United States Duration: Jul 18 2011 → Jul 21 2011

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Name	Proceedings of the TeraGrid 2011 Conference: Extreme Digital Discovery, TG'11

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Conference	TeraGrid 2011 Conference: Extreme Digital Discovery, TG'11
Country/Territory	United States
City	Salt Lake City, UT
Period	07/18/11 → 07/21/11

Keywords

application web services
distributed application abstractions
fault tolerance
grid computing
science gateways
scientific application management
scientific workflows
service oriented architecture

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Demeler, B., Singh, R., Pierce, M., Brookes, E. H., Marru, S., & Dubbs, B. (2011). UltraScan gateway enhancements: In collaboration with TeraGrid advanced user support. In Proceedings of the TeraGrid 2011 Conference: Extreme Digital Discovery, TG'11 (Proceedings of the TeraGrid 2011 Conference: Extreme Digital Discovery, TG'11). https://doi.org/10.1145/2016741.2016778

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Demeler, B, Singh, R, Pierce, M, Brookes, EH, Marru, S & Dubbs, B 2011, UltraScan gateway enhancements: In collaboration with TeraGrid advanced user support. in Proceedings of the TeraGrid 2011 Conference: Extreme Digital Discovery, TG'11. Proceedings of the TeraGrid 2011 Conference: Extreme Digital Discovery, TG'11, TeraGrid 2011 Conference: Extreme Digital Discovery, TG'11, Salt Lake City, UT, United States, 07/18/11. https://doi.org/10.1145/2016741.2016778

UltraScan gateway enhancements: In collaboration with TeraGrid advanced user support. / Demeler, Borries; Singh, Raminderjeet; Pierce, Marlon et al.
Proceedings of the TeraGrid 2011 Conference: Extreme Digital Discovery, TG'11. 2011. (Proceedings of the TeraGrid 2011 Conference: Extreme Digital Discovery, TG'11).

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