Everest: A Cloud Platform for Computational Web Services

Oleg Sukhoroslov, Alexander Afanasiev

2014

Abstract

The ability to effortlessly reuse and combine existing computational tools is an important factor influencing research productivity in many scientific domains. While the service-oriented approach proved to be essential in order to enable wide-scale sharing of applications, we argue that its full potential in scientific computing is still not realized. In this paper, we present Everest, a cloud platform that supports publication, sharing and reuse of scientific applications as web services. The underlying approach is based on a uniform representation of computational web services and its implementation using REST architectural style. In comparison with existing work, Everest has a number of novel features such as the use of PaaS model, flexible binding of services with externally provisioned computing resources and remotely accessible API.

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Sukhoroslov O. and Afanasiev A. (2014). Everest: A Cloud Platform for Computational Web Services . In Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science - Volume 1: CLOSER, ISBN 978-989-758-019-2, pages 411-416. DOI: 10.5220/0004941404110416


in Bibtex Style

@conference{closer14,
author={Oleg Sukhoroslov and Alexander Afanasiev},
title={Everest: A Cloud Platform for Computational Web Services},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science - Volume 1: CLOSER,},
year={2014},
pages={411-416},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0004941404110416},
isbn={978-989-758-019-2},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science - Volume 1: CLOSER,
TI - Everest: A Cloud Platform for Computational Web Services
SN - 978-989-758-019-2
AU - Sukhoroslov O.
AU - Afanasiev A.
PY - 2014
SP - 411
EP - 416
DO - 10.5220/0004941404110416