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Challenges for mesoscale climatology execution on experimental grid computing systems

2013; Springer Science+Business Media; Volume: 19; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1007/s13173-013-0099-5

1678-4804

Eugênio Sper de Almeida, Haroldo Fraga de Campos Velho, Airam Jônatas Preto,

Advanced Data Storage Technologies

Abstract This paper discusses the challenges of executing a long-term application on a computational grid, which generates the climatology of the atmospheric numerical model BRAMS ( B razilian development on R egional A tmospheric M odeling S ystem) using ensemble members. We have developed a workflow that submits climatology to the computational grid composed by three different grid middlewares (OurGrid, OAR/CiGri and Globus) and three clusters (situated in Porto Alegre, São José dos Campos and Cachoeira Paulista—Brazil). The application characteristics demand a processing grid, rather than a data grid, due to intensive computation and data transfer between the geographically distributed grid nodes. We achieved the goal of generating the climatology using a computational grid. However, we observed problems on application performance due data transfer and non-availability of the computational grid. Questions related to data storage/transfer and grid failures must be better treated to ensure application performance.