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Simple pleasingly-parallel computing for “legacy” (misnomer: just need existing app, Nimrod is the distributed glue that launches and contextualises each job). Onclusters, compute grids, and now clouds.Also support computational economy via economic scheduling.
Molecular docking in drug designEngineering antennae for maximum gainAirfoil optimising LD ratio
Original Nimrod also acted as the cluster management system, commercial spin-off to Enfuzion.
Nimrod/G – “G” originally stood for Globus but now more general supporting other lower level middleware, such as Condor.
Then AWS came along... suddenly public utility computing became a realityOn demand: start and stop machines any time, lead time of minutes.Self service: no lengthy email trail with your data centre admin, just make a web service call.PAYG: pay for what you use, tear it down when not needed.Think of it as a computational vending machine.
Code snippet from Nimrod EC2 actuator – bringing up your first few machines like this is cool! And incredibly easy with these APIs, and great tools like Boto.
Actuator model makes this integration relatively painless compared to an app highly dependent on higher Grid middleware functions.
Clouds provide an interesting infrastructure to supplement the usual resources available for academic computing.You can pay to get your results faster, or make them higher quality.
Probabilistic spatial and density distribution mapping of volcanic tephra, potentially useful in time sensitive scenarios, i.e., immediately preceding or following an eruption event.