Longbow: A Lightweight Remote Job Submission Tool

James Gebbie-Rayet; Gareth Shannon; Hannes H. Loeffler; Charles A. Laughton

doi:10.5334/jors.95

Longbow: A Lightweight Remote Job Submission Tool

Journal of Open Research Software

Volume 4 (2016): Issue 1

By: James Gebbie-Rayet, Gareth Shannon, Hannes H. Loeffler and Charles A. Laughton

Open Access

|Jan 2016

Abstract

We present Longbow, a lightweight console-based remote job submission tool and library. Longbow allows the user to quickly and simply run jobs on high performance computing facilities without leaving their familiar desktop environment. Not only does Longbow greatly simplify the management of compute- intensive jobs for experienced researchers, it also lowers the technical barriers surrounding high perfor-mance computation for the next generation of scientists and engineers. Longbow has already been used to remotely submit jobs in a number of projects and has the potential to redefine the manner in which high performance computers are used.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/jors.95 | Journal eISSN: 2049-9647

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Published on: Jan 27, 2016

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Keywords:

Remote job submission,

high performance computing,

HPC,

molecular dynamics,

MD,

biosimulation,

biomolecular simulation,

longbow,

hecbiosim,

job management,

automated job submission

© 2016 James Gebbie-Rayet, Gareth Shannon, Hannes H. Loeffler, Charles A. Laughton, published by Ubiquity Press
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