Rob SImmonds's presentation on the Ecosys Experiment Engine project from Cybera's lunch 'n learn event on March 20, 2008.

1. Ecosys
Experiment
Engine
Rob Simmonds
Grid Research Centre
University of Calgary

2. Grid Research Centre (GRC)
• Perform R in:
– Grid computing
– High Performance Computing
– Cyberinfrastructure
– Automation
– Virtualization
• People
– Executive director
– Research director
– 5 research staff
– 5 students
• http://grid.ucalgary.ca

3. Objective
• Create Ecosys Experiment Engine by
integrating CI components
• This should:
– Manage multiple experiments and automate
the running of jobs and movement of data
– Manage jobs running on multiple clusters to
improve throughput
– Provide high level interface to reduce
learning curve