A Platform of Scientific Workflows for Orchestration of Parallel Components in a Cloud of High Performance Computing Applications

HPC Shelf is a proposal of a cloud computing platform for development, deployment and execution of component-based HPC applications with large-scale parallel processing requirements. Through components, it addresses the challenge of dealing with heterogeneous resources in high-end parallel computing systems, including both software and hardware. This paper introduces SAFe, a framework for deriving HPC Shelf applications, and SAFeSWL, a scientific workflow language for describing the architectural and orchestration parts of parallel computing systems deployed by HPC Shelf applications through SAFe.