The Sicilian Grid Infrastructure for High Performance Computing

Carmelo Marcello Iacono-Manno, Marco Fargetta, Roberto Barbera, Alberto Falzone, Giuseppe Andronico, Salvatore Monforte, Annamaria Muoio, Riccardo Bruno, Pietro Di Primo, Salvatore Orlando, Emanuele Leggio, Alessandro Lombardo, Gianluca Passaro, Gianmarco De Francisci-Morales and Simona Blandino
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Carmelo Marcello Iacono-Manno: Consorzio COMETA, Italy
Marco Fargetta: Consorzio COMETA, Italy
Roberto Barbera: Consorzio COMETA, Italy, and Università di Catania, Italy
Alberto Falzone: NICE srl, Italy
Giuseppe Andronico: Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Italy
Salvatore Monforte: Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Italy
Annamaria Muoio: Consorzio COMETA, Italy
Riccardo Bruno: Consorzio COMETA, Italy
Pietro Di Primo: Consorzio COMETA, Italy
Salvatore Orlando: Istituto Nazionale di Astro-Fisica, Palermo, Italy
Emanuele Leggio: Consorzio COMETA, Italy
Alessandro Lombardo: Consorzio COMETA, Italy
Gianluca Passaro: Consorzio COMETA, Italy
Gianmarco De Francisci-Morales: Consorzio COMETA, Italy and Università degli Studi di Catania, Catania, Italy
Simona Blandino: Consorzio COMETA, Italy and Università degli Studi di Catania, Catania, Italy

International Journal of Distributed Systems and Technologies (IJDST), 2010, vol. 1, issue 1, 40-54

Abstract: The conjugation of High Performance Computing (HPC) and Grid paradigm with applications based on commercial software is one among the major challenges of today e-Infrastructures. Several research communities from either industry or academia need to run high parallel applications based on licensed software over hundreds of CPU cores; a satisfactory fulfillment of such requests is one of the keys for the penetration of this computing paradigm into the industry world and sustainability of Grid infrastructures. This problem has been tackled in the context of the PI2S2 project that created a regional e-Infrastructure in Sicily, the first in Italy over a regional area. Present article will describe the features added in order to integrate an HPC facility into the PI2S2 Grid infrastructure, the adoption of the InifiniBand low-latency net connection, the gLite middleware extended to support MPI/MPI2 jobs, the newly developed license server and the specific scheduling policy adopted. Moreover, it will show the results of some relevant use cases belonging to Computer Fluid-Dynamics (Fluent, OpenFOAM), Chemistry (GAMESS), Astro-Physics (Flash) and Bio-Informatics (ClustalW)).

Date: 2010
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