How to run a million jobs
International Science Grid this Week (iSGTW) have a feature article that shares information on up-and-coming solutions for expressing, managing, and executing “megajobs”.
Monash e-Research Centre Associate Director Prof David Abramson talks about his Nimrod family of tools that provides sophisticated methods to search for good solutions as opposed to all solutions.
Users can ask complex questions like “Which parameter values will minimize the output of my model?” This helps shield the user from the complexity of managing lots of independent jobs.