Fedcloud-tf:How to use the Catania Science Gateway Framework as Application Broker How To
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The Catania Science Gateway Framework (CSGF) has been developed by INFN, Division of Catania (Italy), to provide application developers with a tool to create Science Gateways (SGs) in short time and in a very easy way. CSGF is made of a set of libraries to manage Authentication & Authorization mechanisms and to interact with several different kinds of DCIs (grid, cloud, HPC, local, etc.). The CSGF is fully compliant to the EGI.eu VO portal policy.
The CSGF allows users to execute applications on the EGI Federated Cloud through web portals/SGs. The Science Gateways based on CSGF provide users with intuitive web interface to execute applications on the Cloud as jobs and to manage these jobs during their running (check the status and download the output). The SGs takes care of starting the VMs on the EGI Federated Cloud, transfer the needed files (e.g. executable, input files, etc.), stop the VMs and download the output in behalf of the user.
A list of Science Gateways based on the CSGF is available here.
The EGI Federated Cloud users can exploit the CSGF features to:
- Execute applications already integrated in one of the existing Science Gateways
- Add their applications in one of the existing Science Gateways
- Deploy a new Science Gateway
In the following sections are available step by step instructions for the users.
Execute applications already integrated in a Science Gateway
The list of all the applications available in the CSGF based Science Gateways is available in the CHAIN-REDS Application Database. The CHAIN-REDS application database gives you the direct link to the application run pages. Otherwise you can decide to directly visit one of the Science Gateway of this list.