I am the primary developer of US-SOMO
(http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2335839) which currently uses GFAC.
We are in the process of transitioning to Airavata.
We support a lot of different job types, and some of them are
embarrassingly parallel with zero coupling.
I made an attempt to run some jobs directly on Purdue's condor, but some
called programs used are binary only
(as provided by their closed source development), and so I couldn't
recompile to the required universe.
My solution was to build my own MPI container to run these types of jobs
on HPC resources.
This works well, but it would be more neighborly to use a distributed
mechanism for jobs that do not require
parallel communications. Are there any plans to integrate a condor-type
mechanism to Airavata?
Thanks,
-ehb
