Reactive, Interactive, and High Throughput Computation in the Agave Platform

The Agave Platform is an open Science-as-a-Service platform that empowers users to run code, manage data, collaborate meaningfully, and integrate easily with the world around them. In this extended abstract, we examine how new use cases have helped evolve the ways in which Agave supports code execution. We start out by identifying three new code execution paradigms identified in the past 2 years: Interactive, Reactive, and High Throughput computing. We then briefly describe the primary use cases driving each paradigm and how the platform evolved in response to them. Finally, we highlight areas of future work in the platform related to code execution

Containers-as-a-service via the Actor Model

Modern science gateways face distributed systems engineering challenges from multiple fronts. In this extended abstract, we introduce Abaco (Actor Based Containers), a framework and hosted service based on Linux containers and the actor model of concurrent computing for tackling problems related to portability, scalability, reproducibility, and the heterogeneity of physical infrastructure powering science gateways. We describe the initial implementation of Abaco, its use in the Agave science-as-a-service platform, as well as some related projects and areas of future work