Result: A software tool for semi-automatic gridification of resource-intensive Java bytecodes and its application to ray tracing and sequence alignment

Title:
A software tool for semi-automatic gridification of resource-intensive Java bytecodes and its application to ray tracing and sequence alignment
Authors:
Mateos Diaz, Cristian Maximiliano, Zunino Suarez, Alejandro Octavio, Hirsch Jofré, Matías Eberardo, Fernández, Mariano, Campo, Marcelo Ricardo
Publisher Information:
Elsevier
Collection:
CONICET Digital (Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas)
Subject Terms:
AUTOMATIC PARALLELISM, COMPUTATIONAL GRIDS, GRIDIFICATION, JAVA BYTECODE, PARALLELIZATION HEURISTICS, RESOURCE-INTENSIVE APPLICATIONS, https://purl.org/becyt/ford/1.2, https://purl.org/becyt/ford/1
Document Type:
Academic journal article in journal/newspaper
File Description:
application/pdf; application/zip
Language:
English
Relation:
info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/url/https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0965997811000184; http://hdl.handle.net/11336/95709; CONICET Digital; CONICET
Availability:
http://hdl.handle.net/11336/95709
Rights:
info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess ; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/ar/
Accession Number:
edsbas.8DB1CE4E
Database:
BASE

Further Information

Computational Grids deliver the necessary computational infrastructure to perform resource-intensive computations such as the ones that solve the problems scientists are facing today. Exploiting Computational Grids comes at the expense of explicitly adapting the ordinary software implementing scientific problems to take advantage of Grid resources, which unavoidably requires knowledge on Grid programming. The recent notion of "gridifying" ordinary applications, which is based on semi-automatically deriving a Grid-aware version from the compiled code of a sequential application, promises users to be relieved from the requirement of manual usage of Grid APIs within their source codes. In this paper, we describe a novel gridification tool that allows users to easily parallelize Java applications on Grids. Extensive experiments with two real-world applications - ray tracing and sequence alignment - suggest that our approach provides a convenient balance between ease of gridification and Grid resource exploitation compared to manually using Grid APIs for gridifying ordinary applications. ; Fil: Mateos Diaz, Cristian Maximiliano. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - Tandil. Instituto Superior de Ingeniería del Software. Universidad Nacional del Centro de la Provincia de Buenos Aires. Instituto Superior de Ingeniería del Software; Argentina ; Fil: Zunino Suarez, Alejandro Octavio. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - Tandil. Instituto Superior de Ingeniería del Software. Universidad Nacional del Centro de la Provincia de Buenos Aires. Instituto Superior de Ingeniería del Software; Argentina ; Fil: Hirsch Jofré, Matías Eberardo. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - Tandil; Argentina. Universidad Nacional del Centro de la Provincia de Buenos Aires; Argentina ; Fil: Fernández, Mariano. Universidad Nacional del Centro de la Provincia de ...