Project Details

Project Lead

Shantenu Jha 

Project Manager

Yaakoub El Khamra 

Project Members

Ole Weidner, Hartmut Kaiser, Pradeep Kumar Mantha, Andre Luckow, Sharath Maddineni, Pradeep Kumar Mantha, Andre Merzky, Melissa Romanus, Ashley Zebrowski, Mark Santcroos, Blaise Bourdin, Frank Löffler, Ole Weidner, Vishal Shah, Anjanibhargavi Ragothaman, Jeffrey Rabinowitz, Dinesh Ganapathi, Sanket Wagle, Matteo Turilli, Christian Straube, Antons Treikalis, Michael Wilde, Antons Treikalis, Nikhil Shenoy, Daniel S. Katz, Ioannis Paraskevakos, Sean Seyler, Ian Kenney, Oliver Beckstein  

Supporting Experts

 

Institution

Louisiana State University, Center for Computation & Technology  

Discipline

Computer Science (401) 

Abstract

The Simple API for Grid Applications (SAGA) is an OGF standard (http://www.ogf.org), and defines a high level, application oriented API for developing first principle distributed applications. Our SAGA implementation (in C++ and Python, see http://saga.cct.lsu.edu/) is able to interface to a variety of middleware backends. We also develop application frameworks based on SAGA, such as Master-Worker, MapReduce, AllPairs, BigJobs, etc.\n\n\n\nFor all those components, we intent to use futuregrid and the different software environments available on FG for extensive portability and interoperability testing, but also for scale-up and scale-out experiments. The proposed activities will allow to harden the SAGA components described above.

Intellectual Merit

The Simple API for Grid Applications (SAGA) is an OGF standard (http://www.ogf.org), and defines a high level, application oriented API for developing first principle distributed applications. Our SAGA implementation (in C++ and Python, see http://saga.cct.lsu.edu/) is able to interface to a variety of middleware backends. We also develop application frameworks based on SAGA, such as Master-Worker, MapReduce, AllPairs, BigJobs, etc.\n\n\n\nFor all those components, we intent to use futuregrid and the different software environments available on FG for extensive portability and interoperability testing, but also for scale-up and scale-out experiments. The proposed activities will allow to harden the SAGA components described above.

Broader Impacts

The Simple API for Grid Applications (SAGA) is an OGF standard (http://www.ogf.org), and defines a high level, application oriented API for developing first principle distributed applications. Our SAGA implementation (in C++ and Python, see http://saga.cct.lsu.edu/) is able to interface to a variety of middleware backends. We also develop application frameworks based on SAGA, such as Master-Worker, MapReduce, AllPairs, BigJobs, etc.\n\n\n\nFor all those components, we intent to use futuregrid and the different software environments available on FG for extensive portability and interoperability testing, but also for scale-up and scale-out experiments. The proposed activities will allow to harden the SAGA components described above.

Scale of Use

In general we have very low scale requirements, but would like to be able to test scale up and scale-out now and then, for very short periods of time (hours to a few days).

Results