Apache Airavata: Design and Directions of a Science Gateway Framework

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2014-06

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This paper provides an overview of the Apache Airavata software system for science gateways. Gateways use Airavata to manage application and workflow executions on a range of backend resources (grids, computing clouds, and local clusters). Airavata’s design goal is to provide component abstractions for major tasks required to provide gateway application management. Components are not directly accessed but are instead exposed through a client Application Programming Interface. This design allows gateway developers to take full advantage of Airavata’s capabilities, and Airavata developers (including those interested in middleware research) to modify Airavata’s implementations and behavior. This is particularly important as Airavata evolves to become a scalable, elastic “platform as a service” for science gateways. We illustrate the capabilities of Airavata through the discussion of usage vignettes. As an Apache Software Foundation project, Airavata’s open community governance model is as important as its software base. We discuss how this works within Airavata and how it may be applicable to other distributed computing infrastructure and cyberinfrastructure efforts.

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science gateways, distributed computing, computing infrastructure, cyberinfrastructure, open source software

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Pierce, M.E., Marru, S., Gunathilake, L., Kanewala. T.A., Singh, R., Wijeratne, S., Wimalasena, C., Herath, C., Chinthaka, E., Mattmann, C., Slominski. A., Tangchaisin, P. 2014. Apache Airavata: Design and Directions of a Science Gateway Framework. Technical Report and Presentation. Presented at the International Workshop on Science Gateways (IWSG 2014). Trinity College Dublin. 3-5 June 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/2022/18635

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This technical report, presented at the 6th International Workshop on Science Gateways, was also published in the conference proceedings, and is available through the IEEE Xplore Digital Library, at

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Copyright 2014 by The Trustees of Indiana University. The content is released under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported license

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Conference paper