Pegasus WMS – Automate, recover, and debug scientific computations

The Pegasus team is very happy to hear about LIGO’s incredible discovery: the first detection of gravitational waves from colliding black holes. We congratulate the entire LIGO Scientific Collaboration and the Virgo Collaboration on this incredible achievement.

frame0320 — 0.2 Second before the black holes collide. Image credit: SXS/LIGO

The Pegasus team is very pleased to have contributed to LIGO’s software infrastructure. One of the main analysis pipelines used by LIGO to detect the gravitational wave was executed using Pegasus Workflow Management System (WMS). The PyCBC analysis pipeline analyzed data from the two LIGO detectors. Initially the analysis was managed by Pegasus WMS on the LIGO Data Grid. LIGO extended their computations to the nation-wide cyber-infrastructures, Open Science Grid and XSEDE. Pegasus aided this expansion by managing cross-site data transfers and computations in a reliable, scalable, and efficient manner. Pegasus enables LIGO researchers to easily monitor and analyze their workflows via a web based dashboard, and a suite of command line tools.

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Water is seen as small red and white molecules on large nanodiamond spheres.(Image credit: Michael Mattheson, OLCF, ORNL)

The Pegasus team is very happy to hear about the cutting-edge research and development that can help solve some of the challenges associated with drug delivery discovery: “The motions of a tRNA (or transfer RNA) model system can be enhanced when coupled with nanodiamonds, or diamond nanoparticles approximately 5 to 10 nanometers in size”. The discovery involved ORNL's Spallation Neutron Source, which provides the most intense pulsed neutron beams in the world for scientific research and industrial development, and ORNL's Titan supercomputer, the nation's most powerful for open science. By comparing the SNS neutron scattering data with the data from the team's molecular dynamics simulations on Titan, the researchers have confirmed that nanodiamonds enhance the dynamics of tRNA when in the presence of water; This analysis was performed with the Pegasus WMS.

Highlights from the Blog

Let us know how you use Pegasus!

by Mats Rynge on June 7, 2019 with No Comments

Is Pegasus an integral part of your work? If so, we want to know! We love to keep up with all the ways in which Pegasus is applied. Regardless of subject or field, the Pegasus Team wants to know how our users are benefiting from Pegasus and how we can continue to … Read More

XENON1T observed the rarest decay process ever measured

by Mats Rynge on May 16, 2019 with No Comments

Congratulations to our collaborator XENON1T who just observed the rarest decay process ever measured! While this liquid xenon Time Projection Chamber is designed to search for dark matter, its ultra-low background allows the chamber to be sensitive to a large range of rare processes. One of these is the 2 … Read More

Pegasus 4.9.1 Released

by Karan Vahi on March 6, 2019 with No Comments

We are happy to announce the release of Pegasus 4.9.1 . Pegasus 4.9.1 is a minor bug fix release and includes a major change to how transfers are handled for containerized jobs. Pegasus 4.9.1 also includes support for Shifter. Until Pegasus 4.9.0 the transfers for the jobs were conducted on the host … Read More

Pegasus helped Ecology and Evolutionary Biology graduate student at the University of Arizona shed light on human population history

by Mats Rynge on December 10, 2018 with No Comments

Ariella Gladstein at the University of Arizona reconstructed the population history of Ashkenazi Jews, who are Jews historically from Central and Eastern Europe. The Ashkenazi Jews are often used in genetic studies due to their high rates of genetic disorders and complicated population history. However, until now, genetic studies have … Read More

Job Opening: 2 positions for Programmer Analyst II

by Rafael Ferreira da Silva on October 17, 2018 with No Comments

The SciTech group does research and development on software systems to help scientists manage large-scale computations. We work with scientists in domains ranging from genomics and proteomics to seismology and gravitational wave physics. We help scientists deploy their computations on some of the largest and fastest computing systems in the … Read More

NSF OAC Webinar Series: Science Impact of Sustained Cyberinfrastructure: The Pegasus Example

by Rafael Ferreira da Silva on August 16, 2018 with No Comments

Dr. Deelman was invited to kick off the National Science Foundation (NSF) Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure (OAC) 2018 monthly webinar series. OAC – CI Webinar Series Theme and Purpose: The 2018 webinar series will focus on the translational impact of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure and will highlight how cyberinfrastructure innovations have … Read More

Pegasus in the Sky with Data

by Rafael Ferreira da Silva on April 25, 2018 with No Comments

Pegasus and Ewa Deelman were recently featured in the USC Viterbi School of Engineering magazine. We hope you enjoy the story of Pegasus’ creation and successes as much as we do.

CyVerse Container Camp

by Mats Rynge on February 5, 2018 with No Comments

Pegasus team members will be giving an overview of how to use containers in Pegasus workflows, at the CyVerse Container Camp, March 7-9 at University of Arizona, Tucson. The Pegasus portion is currently scheduled for Friday, but the rest of the agenda is packed with related and interesting topics such … Read More

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