Active Folder:Integrating all activities of simula-tion on file system(with DropBox)

Suntae Hwang &Daeyoung Heo

sthwang,dyheo@cs.kookmin.ac.krSchool of Computer Science

Kookmin UniversityMarch 21 2013

2Grid & Cloud Computing Lab.

Data Centric Concept

◎Data vs Computation● Data have been traditionally considered as part(input, out-

put) of computing● However, Data are more important to researcher than com-

putation itself

◎Typical Data Usage● Use results for analyzing and produce new data from those● Need to handle a lot of cases● Use legacy SW tools which are popular in each research area

◎What we need …● Data themselves contain meta information ● Data are eventually located on local file system automatically

and opened by legacy SW as they are● Allow user to manage data by their own way

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Operations on Data

Data

Plan

Product

Sharing

Store

Usage

Computing Editing Uploading

Network

Application

StorageManagement

Job/Workflow Scheduling

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Active Folder: Product, Activity, Apps

Window Explorer

Apps Product PublicWindow Explorer

1-2-sphere WRF

ActivityOpen

Open

Window Explorer

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param.psf traj.dcd etc.

Apps/Servers

Amazon EC2

Open

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Actions on Active Folder

Active Folder

Cloud Storage

Cloud ComputingGrid Computing

Computing

Analizing

Sharing

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Active Folder – Cloud Storage

◎ Connecting to Cloud Storage● Catalog Service

○ Searching Data via Active Folder○ Managing History of Data

● Archiving Service○ Data Backup

Cloud Storage

Active Folder

Window Explorer

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param.psf

Copy(Upload/register)

이름 위치 날짜 상태 이력

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param.psf Drop-Box 2013.2.15 CREATED Imported

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Catalog

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Active Folder – Cloud Computing

◎ Connecting to High Performance Comput-ing Resource

●Virtualize Grid/Cloud computing resource as regular folder

●Simply Drag & Drop Activity Folder(contains Job) to there for executing

Cloud ComputingGrid Computing

Active Folder

Activities

Servers

Amazon EC2

Open

Virtualized as a folder

Drag & DropExecute NAMD

1-2-sphere

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Active Folder – Products

◎ Using Products on My Computer● Legacy SW can access the products as local file● Synchronized between client and server by

Dropbox

Active Folder

On-line

Of- line

Changing is applied automatically whenever connected

Accessing synchronized files

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Demo

◎Using Active Folder●Executing by Drag & Drop●Open results by legacy SW directly

●http://youtu.be/vXTh3tCHEPE◎Prepare Activity

●Building Job & parameterizing

●http://youtu.be/K4YCZ9o-DKY

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Thank You!

Questions?