PROMINENCE

PROMINENCE is a platform which allows users to exploit idle cloud resources for running containerised workloads. From a user’s perspective PROMINENCE appears like a standard batch system but jobs can be run from anywhere in the world on clouds anywhere in the world.

Computing resources are provided by EGI Federated Cloud sites.

Contents:

• 1. Introduction
  • 1.1. Workflows, jobs and tasks
  • 1.2. Job lifecycle
• 2. Containers
  • 2.1. Why containers?
  • 2.2. Accessing images
  • 2.3. Tips for creating containers
  • 2.4. MPI jobs
  • 2.5. Registry authentication
• 3. Command line interface
  • 3.1. Installation
  • 3.2. Setup
  • 3.3. Help
  • 3.4. Prerequisites
  • 3.5. Getting an access token
  • 3.6. Your first job
  • 3.7. Jobs and workflows
• 4. Jobs
  • 4.1. Running jobs
  • 4.2. Standard output and error
  • 4.3. Checking job status
  • 4.4. Deleting a job
  • 4.5. Labels
  • 4.6. Generating JSON
  • 4.7. Policies
  • 4.8. Environment variables
  • 4.9. Inputs
• 5. Workflows
  • 5.1. Types of workflows
  • 5.2. Failures and retries
• 6. Data
  • 6.1. B2DROP
  • 6.2. OneData
  • 6.3. WebDAV
• 7. Using the API
  • 7.1. cURL
  • 7.2. Python
• 8. Examples
  • 8.1. Jobs
  • 8.2. Workflows
  • 8.3. Jupyter notebooks

PROMINENCE was originally developed in the Fusion Science Demonstrator in EOSCpilot. The European Open Science Cloud for Research pilot project was funded by the European Commission, DG Research & Innovation under contract no. 739563. This work is also co-funded by the EOSC-hub project (Horizon 2020) under Grant number 777536.