An automated cluster/grid task and data management system

Abstract

CROSS-Fire is a research project focused on wildfire management related topics, that defines an architecture integrating three main components: the CROSS-Fire Platform, implemented as an OGS-WS compatible Web Processing System layer; a Spatial Data Infrastructure platform; a Distributed Computing Infrastructure, supporting both cluster and grid environments. The main objective is to exploit Cluster/Grid middleware in order to: i) allow the concurrent execution of multiple and large simulations, ii) access and manage large data input/output files, iii) create and handle a database of past simulations and iv) allow remote and interactive monitoring of the fire simulation growth. The developed tools manage the tasks and control the data flow between components, providing the advantage of fast implementation and easy testing, on cluster and grid environments.