Active Folder: Integrating all activities of simulation on file system(with DropBox) Suntae Hwang & Daeyoung Heo School of Computer Science Kookmin University March

Data Centric Concept ◎ Data vs Computation ●Data have been traditionally considered as part(input, output) of computing ●However, Data are more important to researcher than computation 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 Grid & Cloud Computing Lab. 2

Operations on Data 3 Grid & Cloud Computing Lab. Data Plan Product Sharing Store Usage Computing Editing Uploading Network Application Storage Management Job/Workflow Scheduling

Active Folder: Product, Activity, Apps 4 Grid & Cloud Computing Lab. Window Explorer AppsProductPublic Window Explorer 1-2-sphereWRF Activity Open Window Explorer param.psf traj.dcd etc. Apps/Servers Amazon EC2 Open

Actions on Active Folder 5 Grid & Cloud Computing Lab. Active Folder Cloud Storage Cloud Computing Grid Computing Computing Analizing Sharing

Active Folder – Cloud Storage 6 Grid & Cloud Computing Lab. ◎ 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 param.psf Copy(Upload/register) 이름위치날짜상태이력 …………… param.psfDrop-Box CREATEDImported …………… Catalog

Active Folder – Cloud Computing 7 Grid & Cloud Computing Lab. ◎ Connecting to High Performance Computing Resource ●Virtualize Grid/Cloud computing resource as regular folder ●Simply Drag & Drop Activity Folder(contains Job) to there for executing Cloud Computing Grid Computing Active Folder Activities Servers Amazon EC2 Open Virtualized as a folder Drag & Drop Execute NAMD 1-2-sphere

Active Folder – Products 8 Grid & Cloud Computing Lab. ◎ 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

Demo 9 Grid & Cloud Computing Lab. ◎ Using Active Folder ●Executing by Drag & Drop ●Open results by legacy SW directly ● ◎ Prepare Activity ●Building Job & parameterizing ●

Thank You! Questions? Grid & Cloud Computing Lab. 10