SAGA-C++

• SAGA is a standardized API for developing distributed applications that can run on grid and cloud infrastructure. The SAGA API has an emphasis on job handling and monitoring, file transfer and management as well as distributed orchestration mechanisms. The main goals of SAGA are:

  • Provide a uniform access-layer to heterogeneous distributed computing infrastructures and middleware
  • Provide a stable programming interface for distributed applications, frameworks and tool development, that also lowers the deployment barrier on production Cyber-Infrastructure
  • Provide the building blocks to enable the design and implementation of higher-level abstractions in support of distributed application requirements

  SAGA-C++ is a C++ implementation (doh!) of the SAGA API specification, which aims at completeness and performance. For an easier to use and more actively developed SAGA implementation, please also see Bliss (in Python).

  SAGA-C++ is an open source project, hosted and developed by the SAGA Project and the RADICAL Group at the Cloud and Autonomic Computing Center at Rutgers University.

• Code Example: Executing a remote BFAST genome sequence mapping job on an ssh host with PBS scheduler: