TITLE:
API Development Increases Access to Shared Computing Resources at Boston University
AUTHORS:
George Jones, Amanda E. Wakefield, Jeff Triplett, Kojo Idrissa, James Goebel, Dima Kozakov, Sandor Vajda
KEYWORDS:
API Framework, Open Source, High-Performance Computing, Software Architecture, Science and Engineering
JOURNAL NAME:
Journal of Software Engineering and Applications,
Vol.15 No.6,
June
29,
2022
ABSTRACT: Within the last few decades, increases in computational resources have contributed enormously to the progress of science and engineering (S & E). To continue making rapid advancements, the S & E community must be able to access computing resources. One way to provide such resources is through High-Performance Computing (HPC) centers. Many academic research institutions offer their own HPC Centers but struggle to make the computing resources easily accessible and user-friendly. Here we present SHABU, a RESTful Web API framework that enables S & E communities to access resources from Boston University’s Shared Computing Center (SCC). The SHABU requirements are derived from the use cases described in this work.