XSEDE15 SciGaP Tutorial: Building Gateways with Apache Airavata

Module 1 - Overview & Introductions

• Presentation: Introduction
  • XSEDE Science Gateways Program
  • Logistics - Tutorial Site, Handouts, Slides, Notes Document
  • What to expect rest of the morning 
• Discussion: 
  • Audience introductions & expectations
• Presentation: Big Picture - Anatomy of a Science Gateway

Module 2 - Hands on exercises with a Pre-built Gateway

• Exercise: Using a gateway as a end user.

  • Execute your favorite available (pre-registered) application.

  • Use Stampede, Comet, Gordon, Blacklight XSEDE Resources,

  • Monitor job progress, view outputs.

  • Clone, Cancel an experiment.

  • Use provided sample input files, or try your own input configurations and data.

  • Audience feedback

• Exercise: Gateway administrative dashboard 

  • View gateway preferences, users, administrators

  • View computational resource information, application descriptions

  • Monitor, Diagnose Failures

  • Audience feedback

• Demos & Discussion: 

  • Preview of second half

  • How to deploy a new application

  • Audience feedback

  • Suggestions from participants? Talk to us during the break.

Module 3 - Build & Take home your Demo Gateway

•  Exercise:
  • Create take home Gateway Clone.
  • Can host it on XSEDE Gateway hosting or participants laptop

  • Manage gateway preferences

  • Managing gateway administrators, end users, user roles

  • Create resource and application descriptions

  • Execute experiments and investigation of failed experiments

Module 4 - Airavata under the hood

• Presentation & Discussion:
  • Airavata Architecture - API and Components
  • Airavata Community - Developers, Users, Contributors, Issue Tracking
  • Gateway User Management, API Security
  • Roadmap, How to get involved
• Exercise:
  
  • Catch up with previous modules
  • Register your campus resources
  • Register new applications
• Presentation & Demo: Unicore/BES integration & Support

Module 5 - Gateway Operations & Community Building

•  Presentation:  
  •  Experiences from widely used XSEDE Gateways. 
  • Motivation & Vision of Science Gateways Platform as a Service (SciGaP) Project.