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Petascale Active Data Store Seminar
"Swift: Parallel Scripting for Petascale Data Analysis"

DATE: October 22, 2008
TIME: 3:30 pm
SPEAKER: Mike Wilde, MCS, Argonne National Laboratory
LOCATION: Research Institute, rm. 405, Argonne National Laboratory
HOST: Mike Papka

Description:
Swift is a system for the rapid and reliable specification, execution, and management of large-scale science and engineering problems. It supports applications that execute large numbers of tasks that pass data via files - as is common, for example, when analyzing large quantities of data or performing parameter studies and ensemble simulations.

The open source Swift software combines a simple scripting language to enable the concise, high-level specifications of complex parallel computations, mappers for accessing diverse data formats in a convenient manner, and an execution engine that can manage the dispatch of tasks to environments ranging from clusters to grids to petascale systems such as the Blue Gene/P.

This talk will describe the Swift programming model and show several examples of applying it on large-scale clusters to problems in diverse scientific disciplines.

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