The NEWT platform: an extensible plugin framework for creating ReSTful HPC APIs

摘要

This work describes the NEWT platform, a framework for creating ReSTful web APIs for high-performancernscientific computing. The NEWT platform is designed to be a customizable framework that can be deployedrnat a high-performance computing center and enables access to various backend resources and servicesrnthrough a common web API. The goal of this effort is to create a service that can be plugged into multiplernbackend resources and can easily be extended while presenting a standard interface to the consumer withrncommon semantics. This effort also updates the NEWT API that has been deployed at the National EnergyrnResearch Scientific Computing Center since 2010 and provides additional structure and consistency acrossrnthe API.