Executive Summary: A resource provider publishes the detailed configuration and status of a compute resource so researchers can submit jobs appropriately to the resource.
Component | User facing? | Component’s role in the capability |
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Information Publishing Framework (IPF) | no | Installed and used by the infrastructure provider to automatically gather hardware, configuration, and status information from the batch scheduler and publish it to XSEDE's aggregation information service. |
Information Services | yes | Information Services routing application subscribe to information published by infrastructure providers using IPF to the RabbitMQ services, and process the information by storing it in the Information Services warehouse. The information Services warehouse is accessible to infrastructure providers, developers, and advanced users via RESTful APIs (https://info.xsede.org/wh1/api-docs/). |
XSEDE Publish/Subscribe Service (RabbitMQ) | no | This service accepts the information published by infrastructure providers using IPF and makes it available to information services router applications to process it and store in the information warehouse. |