基于REST风格的科学计算环境Web服务API  

RESTful-Based Web Service APIs for Scientific Computing Environment

作　　者：曹荣强[1] 肖海力[1] 王小宁[1] 卢莎莎[1] Cao Rongqiang Xiao Haili Wang Xiaoning Lu Shasha(Computer Network Information Center, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China)

机构地区：[1]中国科学院计算机网络信息中心,北京100190

出　　处：《科研信息化技术与应用》2016年第3期43-48,共6页E-science Technology & Application

基　　金：国家高技术研究发展计划(863计划)(2014AA01A302);中国科学院计算机网络信息中心青年基金项目(CNIC_QN_1510)

摘　　要：基于Web页面的计算门户提供了简单易用的用户使用界面,这些门户需要访问异构的计算机群。本文研究和实现基于REST风格的科学计算环境Web服务API(SCEAPI-REST),其核心思想是充分利用Web服务在复杂系统中的集成优势以及REST风格的API跨平台和跨编程语言的特性,为开发者提供简单易用的计算机群开发接口,包括用户管理、资源查询、作业管理和文件传输等功能。基于SCEAPI-REST,开发人员不再需要解决机群访问的繁杂问题,只需要专心构建面向科学计算的终端软件。该API已经应用到计算化学、材料科学、生物信息等多个领域的专业社区和工具软件。Scientific computation gateways provide easy-to-use interactive web pages for users. And these gateways need to overcome difficulties about how to access heterogeneous super computers and clusters. In this paper, we propose a set of RESTful Web services APIs named SCEAPI- REST. The core ideas of SCEAPI-REST is to make full of advantages of integration in complex system provided by web service, and cross-platforms and cross programming languages features provided by RESTful web API. It provides developers a set of easy-to-use APIs for accessing high-performance clusters, including user management, resource querying, job management, data transferring and so on. With these APIs, developers do not need to solve the complexities of accessing to the computing clusters so that they can concentrate on building their own scientific computing clients, such as web or mobile applications. SCEAPI-REST has been used to build web communities and software in chemistry, materials, bioinformatics and other research areas.

关 键 词：科学计算 计算门户 REST API WEB服务 

分 类 号：TP393[自动化与计算机技术—计算机应用技术]