Dédalo: A middleware with a single point of access for heterogeneous distributed computing environments

Abstract

A great challenge faced by many organizations refers to translating their large computing infrastructure into an effective tool to support their productive chain. In this paper, we introduce a modular single point of access middleware approach focused on integrating distributed and heterogeneous computing resources, coined as Dédalo. Since its design, which follows a software product line (SPL) paradigm, Dédalo aims at providing a production-oriented approach to integrate a variety of existing resource managers under a user-friendly interface, with some context-aware approach. Along with the project detailing, a real use case is discussed, presenting the deployment of the Dédalo middleware to support the execution of oil and gas reservoir engineering simulations in an energy company appearing at the 2015 Forbes' Global 2000 companies.