Section: New Software and Platforms

OverFlow

Functional Description: OverFlow is a uniform data management system for scientific workflows running across geographically distributed sites, aiming to reap economic benefits from this geo-diversity. The software is environment-aware, as it monitors and models the global cloud infrastructure, offering high and predictable data handling performance for transfer cost and time, within and across sites. OverFlow proposes a set of pluggable services, grouped in a data-scientist cloud kit. They provide the applications with the possibility to monitor the underlying infrastructure, to exploit smart data compression, deduplication and geo-replication, to evaluate data management costs, to set a tradeoff between money and time, and optimize the transfer strategy accordingly.

Currently, OverFlow is used for data transfers by the Microsoft Research ATLE Munich team as well as for synthetic benchmarks at the Politehnica University of Bucharest.

• Participants: Alexandru Costan, Gabriel Antoniu and Radu Marius Tudoran

• Contact: Alexandru Costan