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HPC Application Cloudification: The StreamFlow Toolkit (Invited Paper)

Authors Iacopo Colonnelli , Barbara Cantalupo , Roberto Esposito , Matteo Pennisi , Concetto Spampinato , Marco Aldinucci

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  • Computer systems organization → Cloud computing
  • Computing methodologies → Distributed computing methodologies
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  • cloud computing
  • distributed computing
  • high-performance computing
  • streamflow
  • workflow management systems

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Abstract

Finding an effective way to improve accessibility to High-Performance Computing facilities, still anchored to SSH-based remote shells and queue-based job submission mechanisms, is an open problem in computer science.
This work advocates a cloudification of HPC applications through a cluster-as-accelerator pattern, where computationally demanding portions of the main execution flow hosted on a Cloud Finding an effective way to improve accessibility to High-Performance Computing facilities, still anchored to SSH-based remote shells and queue-based job submission mechanisms, is an open problem in computer science.
This work advocates a cloudification of HPC applications through a cluster-as-accelerator pattern, where computationally demanding portions of the main execution flow hosted on a Cloud infrastructure can be offloaded to HPC environments to speed them up. We introduce StreamFlow, a novel Workflow Management System that supports such a design pattern and makes it possible to run the steps of a standard workflow model on independent processing elements with no shared storage. 
We validated the proposed approach’s effectiveness on the CLAIRE COVID-19 universal pipeline, i.e. a reproducible workflow capable of automating the comparison of (possibly all) state-of-the-art pipelines for the diagnosis of COVID-19 interstitial pneumonia from CT scans images based on Deep Neural Networks (DNNs).

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Iacopo Colonnelli, Barbara Cantalupo, Roberto Esposito, Matteo Pennisi, Concetto Spampinato, and Marco Aldinucci. HPC Application Cloudification: The StreamFlow Toolkit (Invited Paper). In 12th Workshop on Parallel Programming and Run-Time Management Techniques for Many-core Architectures and 10th Workshop on Design Tools and Architectures for Multicore Embedded Computing Platforms (PARMA-DITAM 2021). Open Access Series in Informatics (OASIcs), Volume 88, pp. 5:1-5:13, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2021) https://doi.org/10.4230/OASIcs.PARMA-DITAM.2021.5

Author Details

Iacopo Colonnelli
  • Computer Science Department, University of Torino, Italy
Barbara Cantalupo
  • Computer Science Department, University of Torino, Italy
Roberto Esposito
  • Computer Science Department, University of Torino, Italy
Matteo Pennisi
  • Electrical Engineering Department, University of Catania, Italy
Concetto Spampinato
  • Electrical Engineering Department, University of Catania, Italy
Marco Aldinucci
  • Department of Computer Science, University of Pisa, Italy

Funding

This work has been undertaken in the context of the DeepHealth project, which has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No. 825111. This work has been partially supported by the HPC4AI project funded by Regione Piemonte (POR FESR 2014-20 - INFRA-P).

Acknowledgements

We want to thank Emanuela Girardi and Gianluca Bontempi who are coordinating the CLAIRE task force on COVID-19 for their support, and the group of volunteer researchers who contributed to the development of CLAIRE COVID-19 universal pipeline, they are: Marco Calandri and Piero Fariselli (Radiomics & medical science, University of Torino, Italy); Marco Grangetto, Enzo Tartaglione (Digital image processing Lab, University of Torino, Italy); Simone Palazzo, Isaak Kavasidis (PeRCeiVe Lab, University of Catania, Italy); Bogdan Ionescu, Gabriel Constantin (Multimedia Lab @ CAMPUS Research Institute, University Politechnica of Bucharest, Romania); Miquel Perello Nieto (Computer Science, University of Bristol, UK); Inês Domingues (School of Sciences University of Porto, Portugal).

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