Building and managing the eminerals clusters: A case study in grid-enabled cluster operation

Richard P. Bruin; Martin T. Dove; Mark Calleja; Matthew G. Tucker

doi:10.1109/MCSE.2005.116

Building and managing the eminerals clusters: A case study in grid-enabled cluster operation

Richard P. Bruin, Martin T. Dove, Mark Calleja, Matthew G. Tucker

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Abstract

A testbed project, eMinerals, supported by the UK eScience program, aims to create a multi-institution collaborative infrastructure that uses grid technologies to support a team of molecular-simulation scientists working together on environmental science problems. The configuration, monitoring, and use of compute clusters in an environment in which users access resources through grid middleware tools are also discussed. The simulation methods include static energy relaxation for computation of properties and energies, lattice dynamics for thermodynamic properties, and Monte Carlo simulations for studies of ordering processes. A single tool is developed to automatically monitor the large number of compute resources that comprise the eMinerals mini-grid.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	30-37
Number of pages	8
Journal	Computing in Science and Engineering
Volume	7
Issue number	6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/MCSE.2005.116
State	Published - Nov 2005
Externally published	Yes

Funding

We are grateful to the Natural Environment Research Council (UK) for funding the eMinerals project, and to the Centre for Ecology and Hydrology (Monks Wood, Cambridgeshire, UK) for additional financial support for Richard Bruin.

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Natural Environment Research Council

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