Title: Towards automatic service generation and scheduling in the OpenCF project

Authors: A. Santos, F. Almeida, V. Blanco, D. Diez, J. Regueira, E. Sicilia

Addresses: Department of Statistics and Computer Science, Avda. Astrofisico Fco. Sanchez, s/n, 38071 La Laguna, Spain. ' Department of Statistics and Computer Science, Avda. Astrofisico Fco. Sanchez, s/n, 38071 La Laguna, Spain. ' Department of Statistics and Computer Science, Avda. Astrofisico Fco. Sanchez, s/n, 38071 La Laguna, Spain. ' Department of Statistics and Computer Science, Avda. Astrofisico Fco. Sanchez, s/n, 38071 La Laguna, Spain. ' Department of Statistics and Computer Science, Avda. Astrofisico Fco. Sanchez, s/n, 38071 La Laguna, Spain. ' Department of Statistics and Computer Science, Avda. Astrofisico Fco. Sanchez, s/n, 38071 La Laguna, Spain

Abstract: Web Service (WS)-based technologies have emerged as a technological alternative for computational web portals. Facilitating access to distributed resources through web interfaces while simultaneously ensuring security is one of the main goals in most of the currently existing manifold tools and frameworks. OpenCF, the Open Source Computational Framework that we developed, shares these objectives and adds others, like enforced portability, genericity, modularity and compatibility with a wide range of High Performance Computing Systems (HPCS). OpenCF has been implemented using lightweight technologies, resulting in a robust framework ready to run out of the box that is compatible with standard security requirements.

Keywords: high-performance computing; web services; automatic service generation; scheduling; open source computational framework.

DOI: 10.1504/IJWGS.2008.022542

International Journal of Web and Grid Services, 2008 Vol.4 No.4, pp.367 - 378

Published online: 14 Jan 2009 *

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