Longbow: A Lightweight Remote Job Submission Tool

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...

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Published inJournal of open research software Vol. 4; no. 1; pp. 1 - e1
Main Authors Gebbie-Rayet, James, Shannon, Gareth, Loeffler, Hannes H, Laughton, Charles A
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Ubiquity Press Ltd 27.01.2016
Ubiquity Press
Subjects
Applications software
automated job submission
biomolecular simulation
biosimulation
hecbiosim
high performance computing
HPC
job management
longbow
molecular dynamics
Remote job submission
Scheduling (Management)
Technology application
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Summary: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 performance 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. Keywords: Remote job submission, high performance computing, HPC, molecular dynamics, MD, biosimulation, biomolecular simulation, longbow, hecbiosim, job management, automated job submission
ISSN:2049-9647
2049-9647
DOI:10.5334/jors.95