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Ben Clifford wrote:
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<pre wrap="">- running Swift on clouds like E2C and Azure
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Tim Freeman has done some work standing up clusters on multiple EC2 nodes,
so that the multiple nodes are exposed through a single (perhaps GRAM?)
interface. So putting Swift on the front of that seems straightforward to
define.
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Back in 2007 (yes, its been almost 2 years since we tried this),
Catalin, Tim Freeman, and I got MolDyn (Nika's molecular dynamics app)
running through Swift + Falkon + Workspace Service + EC2 + NFS. At the
time, they were just rolling out support for PBS/GRAM, which means that
for a simpler deployment scenario, you might be able to use GRAM/PBS
instead of Falkon. <br>
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We had a wiki setup to keep track of our progress:<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://dev.globus.org/wiki/Incubator/Falkon/EC2">http://dev.globus.org/wiki/Incubator/Falkon/EC2</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.ci.uchicago.edu/wiki/bin/view/VDS/DslCS/Falkon_EC2">http://www.ci.uchicago.edu/wiki/bin/view/VDS/DslCS/Falkon_EC2</a><br>
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but then Catalin found a job, and moved on to other things, and I never
had time to carry the work forward. It sounds like an interesting
scenario to support, with minimal end-user intervention.<br>
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Ioan<br>
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