Microservice-oriented Approach to Automation of Distributed Scientific Computations

We offer a microservice-oriented multi-agent approach for solving computationally complex problems arising in the course of scientific and applied research in some subject areas. The computational experiments specificity of a considered class of problems is stipulated by the exponential increasing runtime due to increasing dimension, multivariate calculations of the different input data of the problem, as well as the variability of a mathematical model and algorithm for solving the problem. The use of microservices provides reusability, ease of updating the components of a distributed application and its cross-platform and allows operating with modularity properties in new conditions of distributed computing when inter-module communication is provided only through the message passing mechanism. The designed software platform for the offered approach automatizes both the development of a distributed microservice application based on an applied program package and the organization of decentralized management of microservices composition. New mechanisms for deploying and updating microservices support the synchronization of cloud knowledge bases and one installed on a user's computer, providing an additional opportunity using Dew computing paradigm that combines the concept of Cloud computing with the capabilities of the user's local computers. The practice of scientific computational experiments has shown the effectiveness and convenient in the usage of the offered approach.