Monitoring and steering Grid applications with GRID superscalar

We present the design and implementation of a general task monitoring and steering system for Grid applications (GSTAT). The system is integrated in the GRID superscalar (GRIDSs) programming framework. Information at the application, Grid node, and individual task levels are supplied upon request. Using the steering capabilities, individual tasks or the whole application can be cancelled. The corresponding jobs can be restarted using fault tolerance and checkpointing capabilities based on GRIDSs. In addition, the computational resources assigned to an application can be modified. GSTAT is tested using high throughput and high performance computing cases on an Internet-based Grid of computers. © 2009 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.This work has been cofinanced by FEDER funds and the Consejería de Educación y Ciencia de la Junta de Comunidades de Castilla-La Mancha (grant # PBI08-0008). The Ministerio de Ciencia y Tecnología (grant # FIS2005-00293; AYA 2008-00446) and the Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha are also acknowledged. The authors wish to thank the Barcelona Supercomputing Center-Centro Nacional de Supercomputación (BSC-CNS), the Facultad de Ciencias Químicas of the Universidad Autónoma de Puebla (Mexico) and the DAMIR group of the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC, Spain) for allowing the use of their systems.Peer Reviewe