TY - GEN
T1 - Software framework for federated science instruments
AU - Naughton, Thomas
AU - Hitefield, Seth
AU - Sorrillo, Lawrence
AU - Rao, Nageswara
AU - Kohl, James
AU - Elwasif, Wael
AU - Bilheux, Jean Christophe
AU - Bilheux, Hassina
AU - Boehm, Swen
AU - Kincl, Jason
AU - Sen, Satyabrata
AU - Imam, Neena
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020.
PY - 2021
Y1 - 2021
N2 - There is an unprecedented promise of enhanced capabilities for federations of leadership computing systems and experimental science facilities by leveraging software technologies for fast and efficient operations. These federations seek to unify different science instruments, both computing and experimental, to effectively support science users and operators to execute complex workflows. The FedScI project addresses the software challenges associated with the formation and operation of federated environments by leveraging recent advances in containerization of software and softwarization of hardware. We propose a software framework to streamline the federation usage by science users and it’s provisioning and operations by facility providers. A distinguishing element of our work is the support for improved interaction between experimental devices, such as beam-line instruments, and more traditional highperformance computing resources, including compute, network, storage systems. We present guiding principles for the software framework and highlight portions of a current prototype implementation. We describe our science use case involving neutron imaging beam-lines (SNAP/BL-3, Imaging/CG-1D) at the Spallation Neutron Source and High Flux Isotope Reactor facilities at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Additionally, we detail plans for a more direct instrument interaction within a federated environment, which could enable more advanced workflows with feedback loops to shorten the time to science.
AB - There is an unprecedented promise of enhanced capabilities for federations of leadership computing systems and experimental science facilities by leveraging software technologies for fast and efficient operations. These federations seek to unify different science instruments, both computing and experimental, to effectively support science users and operators to execute complex workflows. The FedScI project addresses the software challenges associated with the formation and operation of federated environments by leveraging recent advances in containerization of software and softwarization of hardware. We propose a software framework to streamline the federation usage by science users and it’s provisioning and operations by facility providers. A distinguishing element of our work is the support for improved interaction between experimental devices, such as beam-line instruments, and more traditional highperformance computing resources, including compute, network, storage systems. We present guiding principles for the software framework and highlight portions of a current prototype implementation. We describe our science use case involving neutron imaging beam-lines (SNAP/BL-3, Imaging/CG-1D) at the Spallation Neutron Source and High Flux Isotope Reactor facilities at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Additionally, we detail plans for a more direct instrument interaction within a federated environment, which could enable more advanced workflows with feedback loops to shorten the time to science.
KW - Federation
KW - Science instruments
KW - Software stack
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85107291768&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-030-63393-6_13
DO - 10.1007/978-3-030-63393-6_13
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85107291768
SN - 9783030633929
T3 - Communications in Computer and Information Science
SP - 189
EP - 203
BT - Driving Scientific and Engineering Discoveries Through the Convergence of HPC, Big Data and AI - 17th Smoky Mountains Computational Sciences and Engineering Conference, SMC 2020, Revised Selected Papers
A2 - Nichols, Jeffrey
A2 - Maccabe, Arthur ‘Barney’
A2 - Parete-Koon, Suzanne
A2 - Verastegui, Becky
A2 - Hernandez, Oscar
A2 - Ahearn, Theresa
PB - Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
T2 - 17th Smoky Mountains Computational Sciences and Engineering Conference, SMC 2020
Y2 - 26 August 2020 through 28 August 2020
ER -