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QCG-Computing
QCG-Computing is an open architecture implementation of SOAP Web service for multi-user access and policy-based job control routines by various queuing and batch systems managing local computational resources. This key service in QosCosGrid is using Distributed Resource Management Application API (DRMAA) to communicate with the underlying queuing systems. QCG-Computing has been designed to support a variety of plugins and modules for external communication as well as to handle a large number of concurrent requests from external clients and services. Consequently, it can be used and integrated with various authentication, authorization and accounting services. QCG-Computing service is compliant with the OGF HPC Basic Profile specification, which serves as a profile over Open Grid Forum standards like JSDL and OGSA Basic Execution Service. In addition, it offers remote interfaces for advance reservation management, and supports basic file transfer mechanisms. QCG-Computing was successfully tested with the following queuing systems:
- Grid Engine,
- Platform LSF,
- Torque/Maui,
- PBS Pro,
- Condor,
- Apple XGrid,
- SLURM,
- LoadLeveler.
Therefore, as a primary computing element of QosCosGrid stack, it can be easily set up on the majority of computing clusters and supercomputers running the aforementioned queuing systems. Currently, advance reservation capabilities in QCG-Computing are exposed for SGE, Platform LSF, Maui/Moab (a scheduler that is typically used in conjunction with Torque) and PBS Professional. Moreover, generic extensions for advance reservation have become a part of the DRMAA 2.0 standard release.
Further reading
- Open Grid Forum 28 Presentation
- Smoa Computing HPC Basic Profile adoption – Open Grid Forum Experience Report (GFD 179)
Installation
Tools
- QCG-Core - generic utility library that must be installed in the system prior to the installation of QCG-Computing.
- NagiosProbes - set of Nagios probes.
- JavaSDK - the client Java libraries for QCG-Computing
- SAGA API - the Simple Api for Grid Application can be used to access the BES interface of QCG-Computing
Other Topics
- QCG-Computing application scripts
- QCG-Community Modules
- QCG-Computing benchmarks
- Running service as an unprivileged user
- Reference Configuration Manual
- Using password based authentication
- GridFTP tuning
- Running on Privileged ports
- Integration with VOMS
- Migration to version 3.0
- GridFTP installation
- PL-Grid grants
- Extended Verification Procedure
- Commands Reference
- Frequently Asked Questions
Release Information
License
QCG-Computing is released under the GPL license with the additional exemption that compiling, linking, and/or using OpenSSL is allowed.
For QosCosGrid licensing details see: QosCosGrid license
Acknoledgments
The development of this component is partially funded by the PL-Grid project (POIG.02.03.00-00-007/08-00) and corresponding SPUB-M grants from the Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education.