2008 Eighth IEEE International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid (CCGRID)
A Lightweight Middleware Monitor for Distributed Scientific Workflows
May 19-May 22
ISBN: 978-0-7695-3156-4
Monitoring the execution of distributed tasks within the workflow execution is not easy and is frequently controlled manually. This work presents a lightweight middleware monitor to design and control the parallel execution of tasks from a distributed scientific workflow. This middleware can be connected into a workflow management system. This middleware implementation is evaluated with the Kepler workflow management system, by including new modules to control and monitor the distributed execution of the tasks. These middleware modules were added to a bioinformatics workflow to monitor parallel BLAST executions. Results show potential to high performance process execution while preserving the original features of the workflow.
Index Terms:
monitoring, workflows, lightweight, distributed computing, e-science
Citation:
Sergio Manuel Serra da Cruz, Fabricio Nogueira da Silva, Luiz M. R. Gadelha Jr., Maria Claudia Reis Cavalcanti, Maria Luiza M. Campos, Marta Mattoso, "A Lightweight Middleware Monitor for Distributed Scientific Workflows," ccgrid, pp.693-698, 2008 Eighth IEEE International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid (CCGRID), 2008