What is SPRUCE?
High-performance modeling and simulation are playing a driving role in decision making and prediction. For time-critical emergency support applications such as severe weather prediction, flood modeling, and influenza modeling, late results can be useless. A specialized infrastructure is needed to provide computing resources quickly, automatically, and reliably. SPRUCE, the Special PRiority and Urgent Computing Environment is a system to support urgent or event-driven computing on both traditional supercomputers and distributed Grids.