The CIPRES workbench

Abstract

Here we describe the CIPRES Workbench (CW), an open source software framework for creating new science gateways with minimal overhead. The CW is a web application that can be deployed on a modest server, and can be configured to submit command line instructions to any resource where the application has submission privileges. It is designed to be highly configurable/customizable, and supports GUI-based access to HPC resources through a web browser interface as well as programmatic access via a ReSTful API. Using browser access, the CW architecture creates an environment with secure user accounts where user input data, job results, and job provenance are stored. The ReSTful API allows users with a registered a client application to deliver command lines to analytical codes and retrieve results from remote compute resources. A development effort is underway to allow the CW to submit jobs via the Science Gateways as a Platform (SciGaP) services hosted at Indiana University.