The Parrot Virtual File System

% parrot_run vi /chirp/server.nd.edu/mydata

Parrot "speaks" a variety of remote I/O services include HTTP, FTP, GridFTP, iRODS, HDFS, XRootD, GROW, and Chirp on behalf of ordinary programs. It works by trapping a program's system calls through the ptrace debugging interface, and replacing them with remote I/O operations as desired. Parrot can be installed and operated by any user without special privileges or kernel changes and can be applied to almost any program without re-writing, re-linking, or re-installing. Parrot is particularly useful for running batch jobs in large scale distributed systems.

Parrot is currently only available on the Linux operating system.

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Publications

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• Patrick Donnelly and Douglas Thain,
  Fine-Grained Access Control in the Chirp Distributed File System,
  IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud, and Grid Computing, May, 2012.

• Patrick Donnelly, Peter Bui, Douglas Thain,
  Attaching Cloud Storage to a Campus Grid Using Parrot, Chirp, and Hadoop ,
  IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing Technology and Science, pages 488-495, November, 2010. DOI: 10.1109/CloudCom.2010.74

• Gabrielle Compostella, Simone Pagan Griso, Donatella Lucchesi, Igor Sfiligoi, and Douglas Thain,
  CDF Software Distribution on the Grid using Parrot,
  Computing in High Energy Physics, May, 2009.

• Douglas Thain, Christopher Moretti, and Jeffrey Hemmes,
  Chirp: A Practical Global Filesystem for Cluster and Grid Computing,
  Journal of Grid Computing, 7(1), pages 51-72, March, 2009. DOI: 10.1007/s10723-008-9100-5

• Douglas Thain and Christopher Moretti,
  Efficient Access to Many Small Files in a Filesystem for Grid Computing,
  IEEE Grid Computing, pages 243-250, September, 2007. DOI: 10.1109/GRID.2007.4354139

• Christophe Blanchet, Remi Mollon, Douglas Thain, and Gilbert Deleage,
  Grid Deployment of Legacy Bioinformatics Applications with Transparent Data Access,
  IEEE Grid Computing, pages 120-127, September, 2006. DOI: 10.1109/ICGRID.2006.311006

• Sander Klous, Jamie Frey, Se-Chang Son, Douglas Thain, Alain Roy, Miron Livny, and Jo van den Brand,
  Transparent Access to Grid Resources for User Software,
  Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, 18(7), pages 787-801, June, 2006. DOI: 10.1002/cpe.961

• Stefano Belforte, Matthew Normal, Subir Sarkar, Ifor Sfiligoi, Douglas Thain, Frank Wuerthwein,
  Using Condor Glide-Ins and Parrot to Move from Dedicated Resources to the Grid,
  Lecture Notes in Informatics, 81, pages 285-292, March, 2006.

• Douglas Thain, Christopher Moretti, and Igor Sfiligoi,
  Transparently Distributing CDF Software with Parrot,
  Computing in High Energy Physics, pages 1-4, February, 2006.

• Douglas Thain, Christopher Moretti, Paul Madrid, Phil Snowberger, and Jeff Hemmes,
  The Consequences of Decentralized Security in a Cooperative Storage System,
  Workshop on Security in Storage at IEEE FAST, pages 82-94, December, 2005. DOI: 10.1109/SISW.2005.11

• Douglas Thain,
  Identity Boxing: A New Technique for Consistent Global Identity,
  IEEE/ACM Supercomputing, pages 51-61, November, 2005. DOI: 10.1109/SC.2005.34

• Douglas Thain, Sander Klous, Justin Wozniak, Paul Brenner, Aaron Striegel, and Jesus Izaguirre,
  Separating Abstractions from Resources in a Tactical Storage System ,
  IEEE/ACM Supercomputing, pages 55-67, November, 2005. DOI: 10.1109/SC.2005.64

• Douglas Thain and Miron Livny,
  Parrot: An Application Environment for Data-Intensive Computing,
  Scalable Computing: Practice and Experience, 6(3), pages 9-18, September, 2005.

• Douglas Thain,
  Poster: Identity Boxing: Secure User-Level Containment for the Grid,
  IEEE Symposium on High Performance Distributed Computing, pages 299-300, June, 2005. DOI: 10.1109/HPDC.2005.1520984

• Douglas Thain and Miron Livny,
  Parrot: Transparent User-Level Middleware for Data Intensive Computing,
  Workshop on Adaptive Grid Middleware at PACT, January, 2003.