Airavata PGA Hands-On PEARC17, July 10th 2017 Exploring the Airavata API with PGA Marcus Christie machrist@iu.edu Indiana University PEARC17, July 10th 2017

Introduction (Discussion) Gateway User (Exercise) Gateway Administrator (Exercise) Build your own Gateway (Exercise) Customize your Gateway (Demo & Exercise) Advance Capabilities (Demo & Presentation) Participant Next Steps (Discussion)

Objectives What is PGA? Airavata API overview Hands on session – using PGA as a science gateway user

What is PGA? PGA is a web application that uses the Airavata API to showcase the features provided by Airavata middleware Reference implementation But also a full featured science gateway PGA we’ll be using for this demo: https://testdrive.airavata.org

Airavata API User management Job submission Metadata Sharing services Projects Experiments Data catalog Sharing services What do you get with the API User management – account creation, role based access control Job submission – abstraction for running application on compute resources Data file catalog – keeps track of where all of a users files are Metadata services – organize experiments in projects, keep history Sharing services – share data, experiments, projects API Clients Airavata Middleware XSEDE, etc.

Hands On https://testdrive.airavata.org/ image by freeimageslive.co.uk - stockmedia.cc

Log in use CILogon to login through your institution or Google, etc. will need to get approval from an admin

Create an experiment Gaussian Use link on home page to get data files

Share experiment Share your experiment with the presenter and your neighbor

Summary PGA is a web based science gateway PGA uses the Airavata API for user management, job submission, data management, etc. You can use PGA as is, customize it, or build your own user interface using the Airavata API Next: Sudhakar will show the administrative capabilities in the API and how to use them in PGA