Using the Jetstream Research Cloud to provide Science Gateway resources

We describe the use of the Jetstream research-cloud, a purpose-built system with the goal of supporting "long-tail" research by providing a flexible, on-demand research infrastructure, to provide scalable back-end resources for science gateways. In addition to providing cloud-like resource...

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Published in2017 17th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Grid Computing (CCGRID) pp. 753 - 757
Main Authors Knepper, Richard, Coulter, Eric, Pierce, Marlon, Marru, Suresh, Pamidighantam, Sudhakar
Format Conference Proceeding
LanguageEnglish
Published Piscataway, NJ, USA IEEE Press 14.05.2017
IEEE
SeriesACM Conferences
Subjects
Atmosphere
Cloud computing
cloud-based computation
cluster toolkits
Computer architecture
Logic gates
Resource management
science gateways
Virtual machining
cloud-based computation
science gateways
cluster toolkits
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Summary:We describe the use of the Jetstream research-cloud, a purpose-built system with the goal of supporting "long-tail" research by providing a flexible, on-demand research infrastructure, to provide scalable back-end resources for science gateways. In addition to providing cloud-like resources for on-demand science, Jetstream offers the capability to instantiate long-running clusters which support science gateways. Science gateways are web-based systems built on computational infrastructure which provide commonly-used tools to a community of users. We created a persistent cluster on the Jetstream system which is connected to the SEAGrid science gateway and provides additional compute resources for a variety of quantum chemistry calculations. We discuss the further application of toolkits provided by the Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment (XSEDE) to build general-purpose clusters on the research cloud.
ISBN:9781509066100
1509066101
DOI:10.1109/CCGRID.2017.121