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HERMES simulator component (Condor) to develop
the AraGrid one (gLite). Both Condor and gLite are
two of the most used cluster/Grid middlewares in the
research community. Thus, an additional advantage
is that the developed components can be easily reused
for simulating other existing computing infrastruc-
tures.
Finally, the integration of the presented approach
into the framework has been applied to the develop-
ment and execution of the Inspiral analysis over two
different computing infrastructures, HERMES and
AraGrid. As a result, the overall execution cost was
significantly reduced.
Currently, the proposed simulation component is
being extended to support the dynamic building of
workloads. The use of dynamic workloads will mini-
mize the effort required to build a new simulator and
allow to obtain more accurate simulations. Also, the
addition of new features in the simulator is being ad-
dressed in order to get more accurate queue times in
simulations. Finally, the incorporation of complex
meta-scheduling approaches that can use the informa-
tion provided by the simulation process will be stud-
ied.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
This work has been supported by the research project
TIN2010-17905, granted by the Spanish Ministry of
Science and Innovation.
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