Supporting Science Gateways Using Apache Airavata and SciGaP Services

Pierce, Marlon; Marru, Suresh; Abeysinghe, Eroma; Pamidighantam, Sudhakar; Christie, Marcus; Wannipurage, Dimuthu

doi:10.1145/3219104.3229240

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“…The Cyberinfrastructure Integration Research Center at Indiana University operates the Science Gateways Platform as a service (SciGaP.org) [24], a managed deployment of the Apache Airavata software, to provide a hosted solution for over forty science gateway tenants. A gateway provider can request a gateway tenant through the SciGaP.org administrative portal.…”

Section: Apache Airavata Platform Integration: Hierarchical Tenant Ma...mentioning

confidence: 99%

Experiences with Integrating Custos SecurityServices

Ranawaka,

Liyanage,

Baker

et al. 2021

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Science gateways are user-facing cyberinfrastructure that provide researchers and educators with Web-based access to scientific software, computing, and data resources. Managing user identities, accounts, and permissions are essential tasks for science gateways, and gateways likewise must manage secure connections between their middleware and remote resources. The Custos project is an effort to build open source software that can be operated as a multi-tenanted service that provides reliable implementations of common science gateway cybersecurity needs, including federated authentication, identity management, group and authorization management, and resource credential management. Custos aims further to provide integrated solutions through these capabilities, delivering end-toend support for several science gateway usage scenarios. This paper examines four deployment scenarios using Custos and associated extensions beyond previously described work. The first capability illustrated by these scenarios is the need for Custos to provide hierarchical tenant management that allows multiple gateway deployments to be federated together and also to support consolidated, hosted science gateway platform services. The second capability illustrated by these scenarios is the need to support service accounts that can support non-browser applications and agent applications that can act on behalf of users on edge resources. We illustrate how the latter can be built using Web security standards combined with Custos permission management mechanisms.

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Section: Apache Airavata Platform Integration: Hierarchical Tenant Ma...mentioning

confidence: 99%

Experiences with Integrating Custos SecurityServices

Ranawaka,

Liyanage,

Baker

et al. 2021

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“…Experience over the last decade shows that science gateways/VREs that are successful in terms of user type and count , user behavior , user satisfaction , and long‐term impacts adhere to one of the following concepts: (i) widely used complete frameworks such as Galaxy, 39 HUBzero, 40 and gCube/D4Science; 28 (ii) RESTful APIs, microservices and support of multiple programming languages in widely used frameworks such as TAPIS; 41 (iii) reused interface implementations like the one CIPRES 10 offers, or (iv) generic middleware such as Agave, 42 SciGaP 43 that support multi‐tenancy in science gateways/VREs. Additionally, software frameworks and platforms have never faster evolved than in current times evident in the growing number of mature JavaScript libraries, environments such as the Jupyter notebook or containerizations with Docker supporting reproducibility.…”

Section: Envisioning Next‐generation Science Gateway/vre Advancesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Measuring success for a future vision: Defining impact in science gateways/virtual research environments

Calyam

Wilkins‐Diehr

Miller

et al. 2020

Concurrency and Computation

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Scholars worldwide leverage science gateways/virtual research environments (VREs) for a wide variety of research and education endeavors spanning diverse scientific fields. Evaluating the value of a given science gateway/VRE to its constituent community is critical in obtaining the financial and human resources necessary to sustain operations and increase adoption in the user community. In this article, we feature a variety of exemplar science gateways/VREs and detail how they define impact in terms of, for example, their purpose, operation principles, and size of user base. Further, the exemplars recognize that their science gateways/VREs will continuously evolve with technological advancements and standards in cloud computing platforms, web service architectures, data management tools and cybersecurity. Correspondingly, we present a number of technology advances that could be incorporated in next-generation science gateways/VREs to enhance their scope and scale of their operations for greater success/impact. The exemplars are selected from owners of science gateways in the Science Gateways Community Institute (SGCI) clientele in the United States, and from the owners of VREs in the International Virtual Research Environment Interest Group (VRE-IG) of the Research Data Alliance. Thus, community-driven best practices and technology advances are compiled from diverse expert groups with an international perspective to envisage futuristic science gateway/VRE innovations.

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“…The AMP Gateway is deployed using the Apache Airavata Framework. [4] It relies on the Science Gateway Platform as a Service (SciGaP) (https://scigap.org/) hosting services [3] at Indiana University. The Sci-GaP platform provides gateway services using the multitenanted Apache Airavata middleware.…”

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“…The AMPGateway uses the multi-tenanted Apache Airavata middleware framework [2][3][4] served by the Sci-GaP hosting services for sustained operation. In the first stage of our efforts the software suites have been deployed as independent applications with specific input interfaces.…”

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