Title
P∗: A model of pilot-abstractions
Abstract
Pilot-Jobs support effective distributed resource utilization, and are arguably one of the most widely-used distributed computing abstractions — as measured by the number and types of applications that use them, as well as the number of production distributed cyberinfrastructures that support them. In spite of broad uptake, there does not exist a well-defined, unifying conceptual model of Pilot-Jobs which can be used to define, compare and contrast different implementations. Often Pilot-Job implementations are strongly coupled to the distributed cyber-infrastructure they were originally designed for. These factors present a barrier to extensibility and interoperability. This paper is an attempt to (i) provide a minimal but complete model (P∗) of Pilot-Jobs, (ii) establish the generality of the P∗ Model by mapping various existing and well known Pilot-Job frameworks such as Condor and DIANE to P∗, (iii) derive an interoperable and extensible API for the P∗ Model (Pilot-API), (iv) validate the implementation of the Pilot-API by concurrently using multiple distinct Pilot-Job frameworks on distinct production distributed cyberinfrastructures, and (v) apply the P∗ Model to Pilot-Data.
Year
DOI
Venue
2012
10.1109/eScience.2012.6404423
E-SCIENCE '12 Proceedings of the 2012 IEEE 8th International Conference on E-Science (e-Science)
Keywords
DocType
Volume
conceptual model,distinct production,resource utilization,contrast different implementation,complete model,multiple distinct Pilot-Job framework,Pilot-Job implementation,extensible API,broad uptake
Conference
abs/1207.6644
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
17
0.90
13
Authors
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Pradeep Mantha1170.90
Mark Santcroos2708.11
Andre Luckow3382.83
Shantenu Jha418832.40
Ole Weidner5587.66
Andre Merzky613020.45