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Scientific
1. Scientific Workflows, Science
Gateways, and Apache Airavata:
Opening Science, Opening
Cyberinfrastructure
Marlon Pierce, Suresh Marru, Saminda
Wijeratne, and the IU Science Gateway
Group
{marpierc, smarru}@iu.edu
2. Science Gateway Group
• Amila Jayasekara
• Chathuri Wimalasena
• Jun Wang
• Lahiru Gunathilake
• Marlon Pierce (Group
Lead)
• Raminder Singh
• Saminda Wijeratne
• Suresh Marru
• Viknes Balasubramanee
• Yu (Marie) Ma
We are primarily funded by NSF (XSEDE, SDCI, others) and NASA
(QuakeSim, E-DECIDER) awards with two base funded positions.
3.
4. What Is Cyberinfrastructure?
“Cyberinfrastructure consists of computing systems,
data storage systems, advanced instruments and
data repositories, visualization environments, and
people, all linked together by software and high
performance networks to improve research
productivity and enable breakthroughs not otherwise
possible.”
–Craig Stewart, Indiana University
5. Compute
Resources
Resource
Middleware Cloud Interfaces Grid Middleware
SSH & Resource
Managers
Computational
Clouds
Computational Grids
Gateway
Services
User
Interfacing
Services
Web/Gadget
Container
Web Enabled
Desktop Applications
User
Management
Auditing &
Reporting
Fault
Tolerance
Application
Abstractions
Workflow
System
Information
Services
Monitoring
Registry
Provenance &
Metadata
Management
Local Resources
Web/Gadget
Interfaces
Gateway Abstraction
Interfaces
Color Coding
Dependent resource provider components
Complimentary gateway components
Airavata components
Cyberinfrastructure Layers
Security
8. XSEDE Offers Variety
• Leading-edge distributed memory systems
• Very large shared memory systems
• High throughput systems
• Visualization engines
• Accelerators like GPUs
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Many scientific problems
have components that call
for use of more than one
architecture.
9. Extended Collaborative Support Services
• Support staff who understand the discipline as well as
the systems (perhaps more than one support person
working with a project).
– 37 FTEs, spread over ~80 people at almost a dozen sites.
• Brings the best available knowledge and skills to bear
on computational science problems within the XSEDE
user community.
• Wide range of areas,
– Performance analysis
– Petascale optimization techniques to
– Building Science Gateways.
• Novel and Innovative Projects –
– bring in diverse and non-traditional users.
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10. ECSS Examples
• Algorithmic or solver change; incorporation or implementation
of new or advanced numerical methods and/or math libraries
• Optimization (single processor performance, parallel scaling,
parallel I/O performance, memory usage, or benchmarking
improvement)
• Development of parallel code from serial code/algorithm
• Data visualization or analysis
• Incorporation of new data management or storage
• New grid computing work
• Implementation of new workflows for automation of scientific
processes
• Incorporation of new visualization methods
• Innovative scheduling implementation
• Integration of XSEDE resources into a portal or Science
Gateway
12. Science Gateway Communities
Community Gateway Capabilities
Universities and
Academic Departments
Provide simplified access to computing resources for
students, faculty, and staff. Gateways should support
MOOCs
Shared Instrument
Facilities
Simplify access to instruments, support research derived
from common data products: UltraScan, LIGO, DES, LSST
Multisite Collaborations
and Virtual
Organizations
Funded or unfunded, including self-organized communities,
who need to collaborate and use a common pool of
resources: LEAD, ENZO
Businesses and Services Provide Software as a Service for a particular application
suite
Small Research Groups “Long tail” of science, need to preserve the work that is
done.
13. UltraScan: A Science Gateway for
Biophysical Analysis
• Support analysis of experiments on molecules in solution
environments
– Analytical ultracentrifugation (AUC)
– Laser Light Scattering (LS)
– Small angle X-ray/neutron scattering (SAXS/SANS)
• Provide highest possible resolution in the analysis
– Requires HPC
• Offer a flexible model for multiple optimization methods
• Integrate a variety of HPC environments into a uniform
user experience
• Must be easy to learn and use –
– users should not have to be HPC experts
– Provide check-pointing
– easy to understand error messages
• Fast turnaround to support serial workflows
14.
15. On-Demand
Grid Computing
Example: Adapting Weather Prediction to Observational
Sources Using Dynamic Adaptivity
Streaming
Observations
Storms Forming
Forecast Model
Data Mining
18. Realizing the Universe for the Dark Energy Survey (DES) Using XSEDE Support
(Pis: A. Evrard (UM) and A. Kravtsov (UC)
• The Dark Energy Survey (DES) is an
upcoming international experiment
that aims to constrain the properties of
dark energy and dark matter in the
universe using a deep, 5000-square
degree survey of cosmic structure
traced by galaxies.
• To support this science, the DES
Simulation Working Group is
generating expectations for galaxy
yields in various cosmologies.
• Analysis of these simulated catalogs
offers a quality assurance capability for
cosmological and astrophysical analysis
of upcoming DES telescope data.
• These large, multi-staged
computations are a natural fit for
workflow control atop XSEDE
resources.
Fig. 2: A synthetic 2x3 arcmin DES sky image showing galaxies, stars,
and observational artifacts. Courtesy Huan Lin, FNAL.
Fig. 1 The density of dark matter in a thin radial slice as seen by a
synthetic observer located in the 8 billion light-year computational
volume. Image courtesy Matthew Becker, University of Chicago.
19. DES
Application
Component Description
CAMB Code for Anisotropies in the Microwave Background is a serial
FORTRAN code that computes the power spectrum of dark matter,
which is necessary for generating the simulation initial conditions.
Output is a small ASCII file describing the power spectrum.
2LPTic Second-order Lagrangian Perturbation Theory initial conditions
code is an MPI based C code that computes the initial conditions for
the simulation from parameters and an input power spectrum
generated by CAMB. Output is a set of binary files that vary in size
from ~80-250 GB depending on the simulation resolution.
LGadget LGadget is an MPI based C code that evolves a gravitational N-body
system. The outputs of this step are system state snapshot files, as
well as lightcone files, and some properties of the matter
distribution, including the power spectrum at various timesteps. The
total output from LGadget depends on resolution and the number of
system snapshots stored, and approaches ~10 TB for large DES
simulation boxes.
20. DES as a Workflow
There are plenty of issues:
• Long running code: Based on simulation box size
L-gadget can run for 3 to 5 days using more than
1024 cores.
• Local HPC provider policies: XSEDE resource
provider’s job scheduling policy does not allow
jobs to run for more than 24 hours in normal
queue
• Do-While Construct: Restart service support is
needed in workflow. Do-while construct was
developed to address the need.
• Data size and File transfer challenges: L-gadget
produces 10~TB for large DES simulation boxes in
system scratch so data need to moved to
persistent storage ASAP
• File system issues: More than 10,000 lightcone
files are doing continues file I/O. This can cause
problems with the HPC resource’s file system
(usually Lustre-based in XSEDE).
Processing steps to build a synthetic
galaxy catalog.
22. Apache Airavata Components
Component Description
XBaya Workflow graphical composition tool.
Registry Service Insert and access application, host machine,
workflow, and provenance data.
Workflow Interpreter
Service
Execute the workflow on one or more resources.
Application Factory
Service (GFAC)
Manages the execution and management of an
application in a workflow
Messaging System WS-Notification and WS-Eventing compliant
publish/subscribe messaging system for workflow
events
Airavata API Single wrapping client to provide higher level
programming interfaces.
23. Domain Description
Astronomy Image processing pipeline for One Degree Imager
instrument on XSEDE
Astrophysics Supporting workflow of Dark Energy Survey
simulations working group on XSEDE
Bioinformatics Supported workflow executions on Amazon EC2 for
BioVLAB project
Biophysics Manage large scale data analysis of analytical
ultracentrifugation experiments on XSEDE and
campus resources
Computational
Chemistry
Manage workflows to support computational
chemistry parameter studies for ParamChem.org on
XSEDE
Nuclear Physics Workflows for nuclear structure calculations using
Leadership Class Configuration Interaction (LCCI)
computations on DOE resources
Apache Airavata in Action
25. Cyberinfrastructure: How open is
open source?
• What’s missing?
– Open source licensing
– Open Standards
– Open Code (GitHub,
SourceForge, Google
Code e.t.c)
We also need Open Governance
26. Open Source Software and Governance
• Open source projects need diversity,
governance.
– Reproducibility
– Sustainability
• Incentives for projects to diversify
their developer base.
• Govern
– Software releases
– Contributions
– Credit sharing.
– Members are added
– Project direction decisions.
– IP, legal issues
• Our approach: Apache Software
Foundation
Collaborate
Compete
27. The Apache Software Foundation
• Apache software powers
65% of web sites worldwide
• 501(c)3 non-profit
foundation
• Reasons for creating ASF
– Create legal entity
– Protect contributors from
liability
– Protect Apache assets
• Membership: individual
• Apache Incubator
• Governance and Staffing
– Board of Directors
– Project Management
Committees
– ASF Members
– Committers
– Contributors
• Funding
– All-volunteer
staffing/development
resources
– Donations
– Corporate investment
28. Apache Contributions Aren’t Just
Software
• Apache committers and PMC members aren’t just
code writers.
• Successful communities also include
– Important users
– Project evangelists
– Content providers: documentation, tutorials
– Testers, requirements providers, and constructive
complainers
• Using Jira and mailing lists
– Anything else that needs doing.
30. What Is Apache Airavata?
• Science Gateway software
system to
• Compose, manage, execute,
and monitor distributed,
computational workflows
• Wrap legacy command line
scientific applications with
Web services.
• Run jobs on computational
resources ranging from local
resources to computational
grids and clouds
• Airavata software is largely
derived from NSF-funded
academic research.
33. Apache Airavata Components
Component Description
XBaya Workflow graphical composition tool.
Registry Service Insert and access application, host machine,
workflow, and provenance data.
Workflow Interpreter
Service
Execute the workflow on one or more resources.
Application Factory
Service (GFAC)
Manages the execution and management of an
application in a workflow
Messaging System WS-Notification and WS-Eventing compliant
publish/subscribe messaging system for workflow
events
Airavata API Single wrapping client to provide higher level
programming interfaces.
34. Key Airavata Features
• Graphical user interface to construct, execute, control,
manage and reuse scientific workflows.
• Desktop tools and browser-based web interface
components to manage applications, workflows and
generated data.
• Sophisticated server-side tools to register, schedule and
manage scientific applications on high performance
computational resources.
• Ability to Interface and interoperate with various external
(third party) data, workflow and provenance
management tools.
35. A Classic Scientific Workflow
• Workflows are composite applications built out of independent
parts.
– Parts are executables wrapped as network accessible services
• The classic example is that codes A, B, and C need to be executed in
a specific sequence.
– A, B, C: parallel codes compiled and executable on a cluster,
supercomputer, etc. by schedulers.
• A, B, and C do not need to be co-located
• A, B, and C may be sequential or parallel
• A, B and C may have date or control dependencies
– Data may need to be staged in and out
• Some variations on ABC:
– Conditional execution branches
– Dynamic execution resource binding
– Iterations (Do-while, For-Each) over all or parts of the sequence
– Triggers, events, data streams
36. Challenges in Scientific Workflows
• Accommodating wide range of execution
patterns
– Iterations: for-each, do-while, dot and Cartesian
products
– Interactivity, adaptivity, non-determinism
• Accommodating error and uncertainties
37. NextGen Workflow Systems:
Need for Interactivity Across Layers
• Scientific workflow systems and compiled
workflow languages have focused on modeling,
scheduling, data movement, dynamic service
creation and monitoring of workflows.
• Building on these foundations Airavata extends to
a interactive and flexible workflow systems.
• Airavata Workflow Features include:
– interactive ways of interfering and steering the
workflow execution
– interpreted workflow execution model
– high level instruction set
– flexibility to execute individual workflow activity and
wait for further analysis.
38. Interactivity Contd.
• Derivations during workflow Execution that does
not affect the structure of the workflow
– dynamic change workflow inputs, workflow rerun.
interpreted workflow execution model.
– dynamic change in point of execution, workflow smart
rerun.
– Fault handling and exception models.
• Derivation that change the workflow DAG during
runtime
– Reconfiguration of activity..
– dynamic addition of activities to the workflow.
– Dynamic remove or replace of activity to the workflow
39. Interactivity
• Mathematical uncertainty:
– PDE’s from domain problems do not have analytical solution and thereby look at numerical
methods to find solutions
– These solvers may not converge depending on method, PDE system, initial conditions and
expected output tolerances
– statistical techniques lead to nondeterministic results.
– closer observation at computational output ensure acceptability of results.
• Domain uncertainty:
– Scenarios of running against range of parameter values in an attempt to find the most
appropriate input set.
– Initial execution providing estimate of the accuracy of the inputs and facilitating further
refinement.
– Outputs are diverse and nondeterministic
• Resource uncertainty:
– Failures in distributed systems are norm than an exception
– transient failures can be retried if computation is side-effect free/Idempotent.
– persistent failures require migration
• Real-time Model refinement
– Real-time event processing systems not having data available prior to initialization of model.
– models evolve over time and can take advantage of more and more events as they become
available
40. Mathema cal Domain Resource
Model
Refinement
Uncertain es
Orchestra on level Interac ons
Workflow
Steering
Parametric
Sweeps
Provenance
Job Level Interac ons
Job launch,
gliding
Checkpoint/
Restart
Asynchronous
refinements
Applica on
Steering
Illustrating Interactivity
41. Domain Description
Astronomy Image processing pipeline for One Degree Imager
instrument on XSEDE
Astrophysics Supporting workflow of Dark Energy Survey
simulations working group on XSEDE
Bioinformatics Supported workflow executions on Amazon EC2 for
BioVLAB project
Biophysics Manage large scale data analysis of analytical
ultracentrifugation experiments on XSEDE and
campus resources
Computational
Chemistry
Manage workflows to support computational
chemistry parameter studies for ParamChem.org on
XSEDE
Nuclear Physics Workflows for nuclear structure calculations using
Leadership Class Configuration Interaction (LCCI)
computations on DOE resources
Apache Airavata in Action
43. Apache Airavata Components
Component Description
XBaya Workflow graphical composition tool.
Registry Service Insert and access application, host machine,
workflow, and provenance data.
Workflow Interpreter
Service
Execute the workflow on one or more resources.
Application Factory
Service (GFAC)
Manages the execution and management of an
application in a workflow
Messaging System WS-Notification and WS-Eventing compliant
publish/subscribe messaging system for workflow
events
Airavata API Single wrapping client to provide higher level
programming interfaces.