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Target Audience and take home lessons:
The tutorial is targeted for Gateway developers who want to build a new gateway from scratch; for advanced developers who are investigating to improve a particular capability; and Campus Champions who can learn easier mechanisms to move data and execute jobs on XSEDE. The take home lessons include skills to execute compute jobs and workflows on XSEDE resources through grid interfaces; Wrap command line applications turning them into web accessible programmable interfaces and learn about open community development process to contribute to existing software with proper contribution governance models.

Table of Contents

Starting up XBaya

Download XBaya - JNLP Link

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  1. Extract the Airavata binary distribution apache-airavata-0.4-incubating-SNAPSHOT-bin.zip to <AIRAVATA_HOME>.
  2. Execute <AIRAVATA_HOME>/bin/xbaya-gui.sh

Setup Registry

Select menu,

    Registry -> Setup Airavata Registry...

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Password

    admin

Click "OK"

Register Applications in Ranger

To register a new application select menu,

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After registering the Application successfully you will see your application in Left hand side Application Services list. Create a workflow using that service and run the workflow as if you did in previous workflow run.

Compose Workflow

To add a new workflow select menu,

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    XBaya -> Export -> Workflow to Registry... (in order to save it in the Airavata Registry)

Running & Monitoring a Workflow

If the workflow is not already opened in XBaya, select menu,

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The workflow loaded in XBaya should indicate the progress of the workflow execution.

Viewing Experiment Results

In XBaya select menu,

    View -> Airavata Registry

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Expand the “Experiments” node to view the details of the experiment.

Next Steps : Executing your own applications

If you reached this step that means you have followed the instructions given here carefully and successfully launched a job in Ranger.

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