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R is the preferred language for Data analytics due to its open source development and high extensibility. Exponential growth in data has caused longer processing times leading to the rise in parallel computing technologies for analysis. Using R together with high performance computing resources is a cumbersome task. This paper proposes a framework that provides users with access to high-performance computing resources and simplifies the configuration, programming, uploading data and job scheduling through a web user interface. In addition to that, it provides two modes of parallelization of data-intensive computing tasks, catering to a wide range of users. The case studies emphasize the utility and efficiency of the framework. The framework provides better performance, ease of use and high scalability.
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Parallel Framework for Data-Intensive Computing with XSEDE
With the increase in data-driven analytics, the demand for high performing computing resources has risen. There are many high-performance computing centers providing cyberinfrastructure (CI) for academic research. However, there exists access barriers in bringing these resources to a broad range of users. Users who are new to data analytics field are not yet equipped to take advantage of the tools offered by CI. In this paper, we propose a framework to lower the access barriers that exist in bringing the high-performance computing resources to users that do not have the training to utilize the capability of CI. The framework uses divide-and-conquer (DC) paradigm for data-intensive computing tasks. It consists of three major components - user interface (UI), parallel scripts generator (PSG) and underlying cyberinfrastructure (CI). The goal of the framework is to provide a user-friendly method for parallelizing data-intensive computing tasks with minimal user intervention. Some of the key design goals are usability, scalability and reproducibility. The users can focus on their problem and leave the parallelization details to the framework.
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- Award ID(s):
- 1726532
- PAR ID:
- 10107981
- Date Published:
- Journal Name:
- PEARC '19 Proceedings of the Practice and Experience in Advanced Research Computing on Rise of the Machines (learning)
- Page Range / eLocation ID:
- 1 to 8
- Format(s):
- Medium: X
- Sponsoring Org:
- National Science Foundation
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Accepted Manuscript1.0
- Conference Paper:
- https://doi.org/10.1145/3332186.3338097
