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X-composer: enabling cross-environments in-situ workflows between HPC and cloud
As large-scale scientific simulations and big data analyses become
more popular, it is increasingly more expensive to store huge
amounts of raw simulation results to perform post-analysis. To
minimize the expensive data I/O, “in-situ” analysis is a promising
approach, where data analysis applications analyze the simulation
generated data on the fly without storing it first. However, it is
challenging to organize, transform, and transport data at scales
between two semantically different ecosystems due to the distinct
software and hardware difference. To tackle these challenges, we
design and implement the X-Composer framework. X-Composer
connects cross-ecosystem applications to form an “in-situ” scientific
workflow, and provides a unified approach and recipe for supporting
such hybrid in-situ workflows on distributed heterogeneous
resources. X-Composer reorganizes simulation data as continuous
data streams and feeds them seamlessly into the Cloud-based
stream processing services to minimize I/O overheads. For evaluation,
we use X-Composer to set up and execute a cross-ecosystem
workflow, which consists of a parallel Computational Fluid Dynamics
simulation running on HPC, and a distributed Dynamic
Mode Decomposition analysis application running on Cloud. Our
experimental results show that X-Composer can seamlessly couple
HPC and Big Data jobs in their own native environments, achieve
good scalability, and provide high-fidelity analytics for ongoing
simulations in real-time.
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- Award ID(s):
- 1835817
- NSF-PAR ID:
- 10312425
- Date Published:
- Journal Name:
- Proceedings of the Platform for Advanced Scientific Computing Conference
- Format(s):
- Medium: X
- Sponsoring Org:
- National Science Foundation
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