Pilot-Job systems play an important role in supporting distributed scientific computing. They
are used to execute millions of jobs on several cyberinfrastructures worldwide, consuming …

Many extreme scale scientific applications have workloads comprised of a large number of
individual high-performance tasks. The Pilot abstraction decouples workload specification …

Cloud computing offers a flexible pay-as-you-go model for provisioning application
resources, which enables applications to scale on-demand based on the current workload …

Pilot-Jobs support effective distributed resource utilization, and are arguably one of the most
widely-used distributed computing abstractions-as measured by the number and types of …

Current systems based on pilot jobs are not exploiting all the scheduling advantages that the
technique offers, or they lack compatibility or adaptability. To overcome the limitations or …

Pushing the boundaries of sciences and providing more advanced services to individuals
and communities continuously demand more sophisticated software, specialized hardware …

Many-task computing is a well-established paradigm for implementing loosely coupled
applications (tasks) on large-scale computing systems. However, few of the model's existing …

Standby redundant systems are often adopted in critical applications such as the emergency
shutdown systems (ESDS) in nuclear power plants (NPPs). One failure mode of the standby …

Azure is an emerging cloud platform developed and operated by Microsoft. It provides a
range of abstractions and building blocks for creating scalable and reliable scientific …

Many-task computing is a well-established paradigm for implementing loosely coupled
applications on large-scale computing systems. However, few of the model's existing …