The Apache Airavata Application Programming Interface: Overview and Evaluation with the UltraScan Science Gateway

Author

Pierce, Marlon ; Marru, Suresh ; Demeler, Borries ; Singh, Rajdeep ; Gorbet, Gary

Author_Institution

Indiana Univ., Bloomington, IN, USA

fYear

2014

fDate

21-21 Nov. 2014

Firstpage

25

Lastpage

29

Abstract

We present an overview of the Apache Airavata Application Programming Interface (API), describe the design choices and implementation details, and describe how API methods map to the UltraScan Science Gateway use case. The Airavata API is designed to standardize access to Airavata services that provide gateways with scientific application metadata and execution management. The API also represents an important milestone in the development of Science Gateway Platform as a Service (SciGaP), a hosted, multi-tenanted gateway service based on open source Airavata software. The UltraScan gateway is a production XSEDE gateway that has been using Airavata services for over three years through customized interfaces and represents a stringent test of the API design and implementation.

Keywords

application program interfaces; meta data; Airavata API; Apache Airavata application programming interface; SciGaP; XSEDE gateway; execution management; multitenanted gateway service; science gateway platform as a service; scientific application metadata; ultrascan science gateway; Catalogs; Communities; Data models; Educational institutions; Logic gates; Servers; Software; Science gateways; application programming interface design; cyberinfrastructure; cloud computing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Gateway Computing Environments Workshop (GCE), 2014 9th

Conference_Location

New Orleans, LA

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/GCE.2014.15

Filename

7021845