基于 REST 风格的科学计算环境 Web服务 API

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。

RESTful-Based Web Service APIs for Scientific Computing Environment

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.