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Dynamic Deployment of Scientific Workflows in the Cloud using Container Virtualization

Lookup NU author(s): Rawaa Qasha, Dr Jacek CalaORCiD, Professor Paul WatsonORCiD

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Abstract

Scientific workflows are increasingly being migrated to the Cloud. However, workflow developers face the problem of which Cloud to choose and, more importantly, how to avoid vendor lock-in. This is because there are a range of Cloud platforms, each with different functionality and interfaces. In this paper we propose a solution system that allows workflows to be portable across a range of Clouds.This portability is achieved through a new framework for building, dynamically deploying and enacting workflows. It combines the TOSCA specification language and container-based virtualization. TOSCA is used to build a reusable and portable description of a workflow which can be automatically deployed and enacted using Docker containers.We describe a working implementation of our framework and evaluate it using a set of existing scientific workflows that illustrate the flexibility of the proposed approach.


Publication metadata

Author(s): Qasha R, Cala J, Watson P

Publication type: Report

Publication status: Published

Series Title: School of Computing Science Technical Report Series

Year: 2016

Pages: 8

Print publication date: 10/10/2016

Acceptance date: 10/10/2016

Report Number: 1501

Institution: School of Computing Science Technical Report Series

Place Published: Newcastle upon Tyne

URL: http://cs.ncl.ac.uk/publications/trs/papers/1501.pdf


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