LEXIS Platform documentation

Welcome to the documentation of the LEXIS Platform.

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LEXIS Platform

• About LEXIS Platform
  • Overview and architecture
  • HPC-as-a-Service approach
  • Embedding of HPC and Cloud-Computing systems
  • LEXIS Platform Core vs. LEXIS Platform Node features
  • Management of complex, mixed Cloud-Computing/HPC workflows
    • Workflow orchestration
    • Platform management core - user-identity/access management and security
  • Automated big data management in workflows
    • Data upload and download
    • Distributed Data Infrastructure, staging and connectivity
    • EUDAT features, FAIR data
    • Data safety and security
  • Resource allocation and accounting/billing principles
• User’s view of LEXIS Platform
  • LEXIS Computational Project
  • HPC Computational Project
  • Principal Investigator
  • LEXIS Task
  • LEXIS Workflow Template
  • LEXIS Workflow
  • LEXIS Workflow Execution
  • LEXIS Task Execution
  • LEXIS Workflow Catalogue
  • LEXIS User Dataset
  • LEXIS Dataset Listing
• Distributed Data Infrastructure
  • Staging, compression and encryption service
    • Source code
    • Staging worker
    • Encryption and compression workers
    • Data transfer API
  • iRODS zone
    • Integration to LEXIS
    • Persistent unique identifiers (PIDs)
    • Users and projects management through iRODS-Keycloak syncing mechanism
  • Metadata API
    • Source code
    • Indexing
    • FAIR concept
    • User-provided metadata
  • API documentation
• Orchestration service
  • HEAppE Middleware
    • Key HEAppE features
    • HEAppE’s security & user mapping mechanism
    • Technical documentation and code repository
    • HEAppE command templates
    • Connection between Puhuri and HEAppE
  • HEAppE for OpenStack
  • Airflow orchestrator
    • Airflow in LEXIS
    • Templating
    • Workflow template editor
    • LEXIS Airflow Provider
      • LEXIS Helpers
      • LEXIS Hooks
      • LEXIS Models
      • LEXIS Operators
    • LEXIS Airflow Plugin
      • LEXIS API View
      • User authentization
    • Examples
      • TOSCA workflow
      • SOM DAG and execution
• LEXIS Platform Management Core
  • Keycloak & zero trust
    • Zero trust
    • Keycloak
  • Authentication
    • Lexis account
    • Identity provider
      • B2ACCESS
  • LEXIS Backend services
    • New version
• Resource management & accounting
  • Puhuri
    • Integration with LEXIS Platform
    • Puhuri AAI
  • Cyclops4HPC
    • Key features of the billing engine
    • Extensibility
    • Related links
• Development team
  • Acknowledgements
    • EXA4MIND
    • e-INFRA CZ
    • LEXIS H2020 Project
    • IT4Innovations CE and NPS II
  • Used by

User Interfaces

• LEXIS Portal
  • Source code
    • Project management
  • Project listing
  • Project creation
  • Project detail
  • Project editing
  • Project users listing
  • Project users assignment
  • Project users unassignment
    • Dataset management
  • Dataset listing
  • Dataset metadata
  • Update dataset metadata
  • Dataset upload
  • Upload inputs
  • Viewing dataset filelist
  • Viewing images within a dataset
    • Workflow execution management
  • Airflow workflow execution creation
  • Airflow workflow execution monitoring
• Py4Lexis
  • Download

Demos

• Demo videos
  • Workflow execution on two HPC clusters
  • Dataset download and upload through web portal
  • Result dataset connection to a workflow
  • Dataset upload over HTTPS using CLI tools
  • Visualisation of a machine learning workflow execution
  • OpenFOAM CFD simulation workflow execution with visualisation

Development

• Source codes
  • LEXIS Portal
  • LEXIS Platform core
    • Distributed data infrastructure core
    • Workflow management and orchestration
    • AAI and user management
  • HPC site components
    • LEXIS client libraries