A Multi-Protocol, Secure, and Dynamic Data Storage Integration Frameworkfor Multi-tenanted Science Gateway Middleware

Abstract

Science gateways are user-centric, end-to-end cyberinfrastructure for managing scientific data and executions of computational software on distributed resources. In order to simplify the creation and management of science gateways, we have pursued a multi-tenanted, platform-as-a-service approach that allows multiple gateway front-ends (portals) to be integrated with a consolidated middleware that manages the movement of data and the execution of workflows on multiple back-end scientific computing resources. An important challenge for this approach is to provide an end-to-end data movement and management solution that allows gateway users to integrate their own data stores with the gateway platform. These user-provided data stores may include commercial cloud-based object store systems, third-party data stores accessed through APIs such as REST endpoints, and users' own local storage resources. In this paper, we present a solution design and implementation based on the integration of a managed file transfer (MFT) service (Airavata MFT) into the platform.