Longbow: A Lightweight Remote Job Submission Tool. Issue 1 (27th January 2016)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Gebbie-Rayet, James; Shannon, Gareth; Loeffler, Hannes H.; Laughton, Charles A.
• Is Part Of: Journal of open research software. Volume 4:Issue 1(2016)
• Publication Date: 2016-01-27
• Subjects: Remote job submission -- high performance computing -- HPC -- molecular dynamics -- MD -- biosimulation -- biomolecular simulation -- longbow -- hecbiosim -- job management -- automated job submission; Computer software -- Reusability -- Periodicals; Open source software -- Periodicals; 005
• DOI: 10.5334/jors.95
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 2049-9647

Abstract

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.