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Web Services-based technologies have emerged as a technological alternative for computational web portals. Facilitating access to distributed resources through web interfaces while simultaneously ensuring security is one of the main goals in most of the currently existing manifold tools and frameworks. OpenCF, the Open Source Computational Framework that we have developed, shares these objectives and adds others, like enforced portability, genericity, modularity and compatibility with a wide range of High Performance Computing Systems. OpenCF has been implemented using lightweight technologies (Apache + PHP), resulting in a robust framework ready to run out of the box that is compatible with standard security requirements.
This work has been partially supported by the EC (FEDER) and the Spanish MEC (Plan Nacional de I+D+I, TIN2005-09037-C02).
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Santos, A., Almeida, F., Blanco, V. (2007). Lightweight Web Services for High Performace Computing. In: Oquendo, F. (eds) Software Architecture. ECSA 2007. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4758. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-75132-8_18
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