Airavata & PGA Tutorials

Apache Airavata is a middleware to simplify computation and data analysis in diverse computational resources. To illustrate the functionality of Airavata Middleware, a PHP Reference Gateway (PGA) is developed. The quick start tutorials are broken down into small segments so you can pick and choose which aspects you would like to focus on. Tutorials starts out as end users and slowly increase pace into gateway developers and middleware developers. 

Tutorial 01 - Hosted PGA & Airavata

For:

• Science Gateway Users
• Science Enthusiasts
  

Learn:

1. User experience with a hosted generic science gateway with hosted Apache SciGaP middleware.
2. Launching/submitting experiments with applications residing in the gateway. 
3. Experiments can be launched with single application as well as multiple applications (a workflow using XBAYA).
4. Creating and launching jobs (experiments) with existing applications, obtaining outputs and view or download them.
5. Navigation through complete lifecycle of an application execution.

Tutorial 02 - Downloaded PGA with Hosted Airavata

For:

• Science Gateway Administrators
• Science Communities in need of a Gateway

Learn;

1. How to download and create your own gateway.
2. A -->Z of Setting up a science gateway. Adding compute resources, applications, setting up security credentials, etc...
3. How to perform administrator tasks for gateway end users.

Tutorial 03 - Downloaded PGA & Airavata

For:

• Science Gateway Administrators
• Science Communities in need of a Gateway
• Potential Contributors/ Developers

Learn:

1. How to download and configure your own gateway.
2. How to download and configure own hosted Airavata and link hosted gateway with own Airavata
3. Plus all above lessons in Tutorial 1 & 2

Tutorial 04 - PHP Reference Gateway for Airavata - End-User Guide

For:

• Gateway Users
  
  

Learn:

1. How to use PGA to submit experimental jobs on compute resources.
2. How to manage experiments, projects within the gateway

Tutorial 05 - PHP Reference Gateway for Airavata - Gateway Admin Guide

For:

• Gateway Administrators