The MIT SuperCloud database management system allows for rapid creation and flexible execution of a variety of the latest scientific databases, including Apache Accumulo and SciDB. It is designed to permit these databases to run on a High Performance Computing Cluster (HPCC) platform as seamlessly as any other HPCC job. It ensures the seamless migration of the databases to the resources assigned by the HPCC scheduler and centralized storage of the database files when not running. It also permits snapshotting of databases to allow researchers to experiment and push the limits of the technology without concerns for data or productivity loss if the database becomes unstable.
@article{arxiv.1506.08506,
title = {Enabling On-Demand Database Computing with MIT SuperCloud Database Management System},
author = {Andrew Prout and Jeremy Kepner and Peter Michaleas and William Arcand and David Bestor and Bill Bergeron and Chansup Byun and Lauren Edwards and Vijay Gadepally and Matthew Hubbell and Julie Mullen and Antonio Rosa and Charles Yee and Albert Reuther},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1506.08506},
year = {2016}
}
Comments
6 pages; accepted to IEEE High Performance Extreme Computing (HPEC) conference 2015. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1406.4923