TY - GEN
T1 - iPlant atmosphere
T2 - 2011 ACM Workshop on Gateway Computing Environments, GCE'11, Co-located with SC'11
AU - Skidmore, Edwin
AU - Kim, Seung Jin
AU - Kuchimanchi, Sangeeta
AU - Singaram, Sriramu
AU - Merchant, Nirav
AU - Stanzione, Dan
PY - 2011
Y1 - 2011
N2 - The cloud platform complements traditional compute and storage infrastructures by introducing capabilities for efficiently provisioning resources in a self-service, on-demand manner. The new provisioning model promises to accelerate scientific discovery by improving access to customizable and task-specific computing resources. This paradigm is well-suited, especially for those applications tailored to leverage cloud-style of infrastructure capabilities. Adoption of the cloud model has been challenging for many domain scientists and scientific software developers due to the technical expertise required to effectively utilize this infrastructure. Some of the key limitations of cloud infrastructure are: limited integration with institutional authentication and authorization frameworks, lack of frameworks to enable domain-specific configurations for instances, and integration with scientific data repositories alongside existing computational clusters and grid deployments. Specifically designed to address some of these operational barriers towards adoptions by the plant sciences community, the iPlant Collaborative cloud platform, aptly named Atmosphere, is an open-source, robust, configurable gateway that extends established cloud infrastructure to meet the diverse computing needs for the plant science. Atmosphere manages the Virtual Machine (VM) lifecycle while maximizing the utilization of cloud resources for scientific workflows. Thus, Atmosphere allows researchers developing novel analytical tools to deploy them with ease while abstracting the underlying computing infrastructure, at the same time making it relatively easy for the users to access these tools via web browser. Atmosphere also provides a rich extensible Application Programming Interface (APIs) for integration and automation with other services. Since its launch, Atmosphere has seen a wide adoption by the plant sciences community for a broad array of applications that range from image processing to next generation sequence (NGS) analysis and can serve as a template for providing similar capabilities to other domains.
AB - The cloud platform complements traditional compute and storage infrastructures by introducing capabilities for efficiently provisioning resources in a self-service, on-demand manner. The new provisioning model promises to accelerate scientific discovery by improving access to customizable and task-specific computing resources. This paradigm is well-suited, especially for those applications tailored to leverage cloud-style of infrastructure capabilities. Adoption of the cloud model has been challenging for many domain scientists and scientific software developers due to the technical expertise required to effectively utilize this infrastructure. Some of the key limitations of cloud infrastructure are: limited integration with institutional authentication and authorization frameworks, lack of frameworks to enable domain-specific configurations for instances, and integration with scientific data repositories alongside existing computational clusters and grid deployments. Specifically designed to address some of these operational barriers towards adoptions by the plant sciences community, the iPlant Collaborative cloud platform, aptly named Atmosphere, is an open-source, robust, configurable gateway that extends established cloud infrastructure to meet the diverse computing needs for the plant science. Atmosphere manages the Virtual Machine (VM) lifecycle while maximizing the utilization of cloud resources for scientific workflows. Thus, Atmosphere allows researchers developing novel analytical tools to deploy them with ease while abstracting the underlying computing infrastructure, at the same time making it relatively easy for the users to access these tools via web browser. Atmosphere also provides a rich extensible Application Programming Interface (APIs) for integration and automation with other services. Since its launch, Atmosphere has seen a wide adoption by the plant sciences community for a broad array of applications that range from image processing to next generation sequence (NGS) analysis and can serve as a template for providing similar capabilities to other domains.
KW - Cloud
KW - Cloud computing
KW - Cloud storage
KW - Cyberinfrastructure
KW - Plant sciences
KW - Virtualization
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U2 - 10.1145/2110486.2110495
DO - 10.1145/2110486.2110495
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84863298937
SN - 9781450311236
T3 - GCE'11 - Proceedings of the 2011 ACM Workshop on Gateway Computing Environments, Co-located with SC'11
SP - 59
EP - 64
BT - GCE'11 - Proceedings of the 2011 ACM Workshop on Gateway Computing Environments, Co-located with SC'11
Y2 - 18 November 2011 through 18 November 2011
ER -