Brasil: Basic Resource Aggregation System Infrastructure Layer

Eric Van Hensbergen, Pravin Shinde, and Noah Evans

Brasil is a self-contained service which can be deployed across a cluster
to provide a dataflow workload distribution and communication aggregation
mechanism.  Together with our dataflow shell, named PUSH, it is intended to
be used for the management of non-traditional super computing applications
as well as provide a mechanism to manage in-situ analysis and vizualization
of more traditional high performance computing simulations.  This paper
describes our experiences implementing and deploying a prototype of Brasil
on a BlueGene/P supercomputer.