Longbow: A Lightweight Remote Job Submission Tool

• Main Authors: James Gebbie-Rayet, Gareth Shannon, Hannes H. Loeffler, Charles A. Laughton
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Ubiquity Press 2016-01-01
• Series: Journal of Open Research Software
• Subjects: Remote job submission; high performance computing; HPC; molecular dynamics; MD; biosimulation; biomolecular simulation; longbow; hecbiosim; job management; automated job submission
• Online Access: http://openresearchsoftware.metajnl.com/articles/95

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 perfor-mance 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.