Nimrod: A Tool for High Performance Distributed Metacomputing
Nimrod: a Tool for High Performance Distributed Metacomputing
Outline
What is Computational Science?
Simulation of Photochemistry
The Virtual Wind Tunnel (NASA)
Why perform parametrised experiments?
What is Metacomputing?
Metacomputing and Parameterised Simulation
Condor: A Hunter for Workstations
Other Technologies
Nimrod: A Computational Workbench
Nimrod data flow
The Nimrod execution environment
How does Nimrod work?
Screen Dump from Nimrod
Screen Dump from Nimrod
Some Sample Applications of Nimrod
SMOG Sensitivity Experiments
Laser Detuning Output
Simulated Annealing Trials
What does a script look like?
National Nimrod Trial
Tick Modelling
Machine Base for Tick work
What did the National Trial Show?
Desktop Metcomputing
Research Goals
Current User Base
Happy Users?
Commercialisation
Dated: 18 June 1996
David Abramson,
<davida@cit.gu.edu.au>