We will introduce the Apache Airavata software for executing and managing computational jobs on distributed computing resources including local clusters, supercomputers, national grids, academic and commercial clouds. Airavata is currently used to build Web-based science gateways and assist to compose, manage, execute, and monitor large scale applications and workflows composed of these services.
We will introduce the Apache Airavata software suite which provides software for executing and managing computational jobs on distributed computing resources including local clusters, supercomputers, national grids, academic and commercial clouds. Airavata is currently used to build Web-based science gateways and assist to compose, manage, execute, and monitor large scale applications (wrapped as Web services) and workflows composed of these services. Airavata is built on Service Oriented Architecture principles, but scientific workflows provide many interesting and challenging extensions to software designed to meet the requirements of Enterprise services and workflows. Airavata software builds on and extends a wide range of Apache tools, including Tomcat, Axis2, and ODE. Further integrations with Hadoop family of software are being explored.
We believe Airavata and the general scientific software community have much to gain from participating in the Apache Software Foundation (ASF), and our presentation will discuss these benefits and collaboration points. We will highlight the successful Google Summer of Code contributions to the project.
Following the conference theme, the talk will demonstrate how Apache Airavata is being used as a kernel of various Science Gateways enabling users to innovate in the fields of astronomy, biophysics and bioinformatics, Chemistry, Data Mining, Material Science and Nuclear Physics.