GenApp, containers and ABACO

Emre Brookes; Joe Stubbs

doi:10.1145/3332186.3332191

GenApp, containers and ABACO

Emre Brookes
, Joe Stubbs

Chemistry and Biochemistry

Texas Advanced Computing Center

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Abstract

GenApp is an NSF-funded framework for rapid generation of applications including feature rich science gateways. GenApp is being successfully used to produce science gateways wrapping scientific programs. Its organization is designed to simplify the process of adding new features and capabilities to generated applications. A limited set of definition files define application generation. To bring a new executable into GenApp, one creates a single “module” definition file. The executable must run on some compute resource accessible by the generated application. Installations of the executable on target resources may be complex. To simplify portability of execution, we introduce automatic containerization of defined modules and integration of container execution. Abaco is an NSF-funded web service and distributed computing platform providing functions-as-a-service (FaaS) to the research computing community. Abaco implements functions using the Actor Model of concurrent computation. We introduce GenApp integration of execution with Abaco as a resource.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the Practice and Experience in Advanced Research Computing
Subtitle of host publication	Rise of the Machines (Learning), PEARC 2019
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery
ISBN (Electronic)	9781450372275
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3332186.3332191
State	Published - Jul 28 2019
Event	2019 Conference on Practice and Experience in Advanced Research Computing: Rise of the Machines (Learning), PEARC 2019 - Chicago, United States Duration: Jul 28 2019 → Aug 1 2019

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Name	ACM International Conference Proceeding Series

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Conference	2019 Conference on Practice and Experience in Advanced Research Computing: Rise of the Machines (Learning), PEARC 2019
Country/Territory	United States
City	Chicago
Period	07/28/19 → 08/1/19

Funding

This work is supported by the NSF grants CHE-1265817, OAC-1740097 and OAC-1912444 and NIH grant GM120600 to E. Brookes and NSF grant OAC-1740288 to J. Stubbs. We are grateful to application developers and their users for their valuable feedback and suggestions. This work used the Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment (XSEDE), which is supported by National Science Foundation grant number ACI-1548562.

Funders	Funder number
1740097, 1912444, OAC-1740097, ACI-1548562, OAC-1912444, 1265817, CHE-1265817
OAC-1740288, GM120600
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council	EP/K039121/1

Keywords

Actor
Container
Science gateway

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Brookes, E & Stubbs, J 2019, GenApp, containers and ABACO. in Proceedings of the Practice and Experience in Advanced Research Computing: Rise of the Machines (Learning), PEARC 2019., 3332191, ACM International Conference Proceeding Series, Association for Computing Machinery, 2019 Conference on Practice and Experience in Advanced Research Computing: Rise of the Machines (Learning), PEARC 2019, Chicago, United States, 07/28/19. https://doi.org/10.1145/3332186.3332191

GenApp, containers and ABACO. / Brookes, Emre; Stubbs, Joe.
Proceedings of the Practice and Experience in Advanced Research Computing: Rise of the Machines (Learning), PEARC 2019. Association for Computing Machinery, 2019. 3332191 (ACM International Conference Proceeding Series).

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