BOWS

BOWS is a generic system based on Web Services which allows programmatic access to applications running on HPC clusters. BOWS allows incorporation of several independent applications since programmers can install them in HPC clusters in any programming language. The lonely requirement is to write a script named “arrow” which calls BOWS back-end services periodically in order to check for new processes and their required parameters. If a new process is found, the “arrow” script should change the requisition status from waiting to running, run the process in the HPC cluster and, when the job is complete, call a BOWS back-end service to send the results. The results will then be available to the requestor. BOWS is called from the front-end by Web Services, therefore a program running in a simple computer can benefit of high performance computation executed elsewhere.
doi:10.1186/s13104-015-1190-0