Section: Software

SBAM

Participants : Eddy Caron [correspondant] , Florent Chuffart.

SBAM (http://graal.ens-lyon.fr/SBAM ) is the middleware directly coming from results of the ANR project SPADES. SBAM initiates a non-intrusive, but highly dynamic environment able to take advantages of available resources without disturbing their native mechanism. SBAM federates multisite resources in order to schedule, submit and compute users' tasks in a transparent way.

SBAM is, firstly, a decentralized grid middleware. It relies on a P2P approach, i.e., a set of agents able to discover resources and schedule computing tasks over a federation of heterogeneous computing platforms (petascale computers, data centers, clouds, ...). SBAM dynamically acquires and releases resources of computing sites according to users' needs and conditions, to federate them into a global constantly growing or shrinking logical platform, referred to as the overlay.