Recent developments in softwarization of networked infrastructures combined with containerization of computing workflows promise unprecedented compute anywhere and everywhere capabilities for federations of edge and remote computing systems and science instruments. The development and testing of software stacks that implement these capabilities over physical production federations, however, is not very practical nor cost-effective. In response, we develop a digital twin of the physical infrastructure, called the Virtual Federated Science Instrument Environment (VFSIE). This framework emulates the federation using containers and hosts connected over an emulated network, and supports the development and testing of federation stacks and workflows. We illustrate its use in a case study involving Jupiter Notebook computations and instrument control.
@article{arxiv.2101.02184,
title = {VFSIE -- Development and Testing Framework for Federated Science Instruments},
author = {Anees Al-Najjar and Nageswara S. V. Rao and Neena Imam and Thomas Naughton and Seth Hitefield and Lawrence Sorrillo and James Kohl and Wael Elwasif and Jean-Christophe Bilheux and Hassina Bilheux and Swen Boehm and Jason Kincl},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2101.02184},
year = {2021}
}
Comments
Earlier Version of VFSIE framework for emulating science workflows at a single site