TY - GEN
T1 - Efficient SDS simulations on multi-GPU nodes of XSEDE high-end clusters
AU - Schlachter, Samuel
AU - Herbein, Stephen
AU - Taufer, Michela
AU - Ou, Shuching
AU - Patel, Sandeep
AU - Logan, Jeremy S.
PY - 2013
Y1 - 2013
N2 - Efficiently studying Sodium Dodecyl Sulfate (SDS) molecules' formations in the presence of different molar concentrations on high-end GPU clusters whose nodes share accelerators exposes us to several challenges, including the need to dynamically adapt the job lengths. Neither virtualization nor lightweight OS solutions can easily support generality, portability, and maintainability in concert. Our solution complements rather than rewrites existing workflow and resource managers with a companion module that complements functions of the workflow manager and a wrapper module that extends functions of the resource managers. Results on the Keeneland cluster show how, by using our modules, accelerated SDS simulations more efficiently use the cluster's GPUs while leading to relevant scientific observations.
AB - Efficiently studying Sodium Dodecyl Sulfate (SDS) molecules' formations in the presence of different molar concentrations on high-end GPU clusters whose nodes share accelerators exposes us to several challenges, including the need to dynamically adapt the job lengths. Neither virtualization nor lightweight OS solutions can easily support generality, portability, and maintainability in concert. Our solution complements rather than rewrites existing workflow and resource managers with a companion module that complements functions of the workflow manager and a wrapper module that extends functions of the resource managers. Results on the Keeneland cluster show how, by using our modules, accelerated SDS simulations more efficiently use the cluster's GPUs while leading to relevant scientific observations.
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U2 - 10.1109/eScience.2013.22
DO - 10.1109/eScience.2013.22
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84893504408
SN - 9780768550831
T3 - Proceedings - IEEE 9th International Conference on e-Science, e-Science 2013
SP - 116
EP - 123
BT - Proceedings - IEEE 9th International Conference on e-Science, e-Science 2013
PB - IEEE Computer Society
T2 - 9th IEEE International Conference on e-Science, e-Science 2013
Y2 - 22 October 2013 through 25 October 2013
ER -