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University of the Witwatersrand

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\large{\textbf{Wits University Honours Course\\
Research proposal }
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\LARGE{\textbf{Continuous Delivery of Research Applications in a Distributed Environment }}

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\item Principal investigator (PI): Bruce Becker (CSIR Meraka Institute)
\item Host institution: Wits University
\item Full title: Continuous Delivery of Research Applications in Distributed Environment
\item Proposal short name: CODE-RADE
\item Proposal duration: 10 months
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One of the aims of e-Infrastructures is to provide easy access to powerful computational and data platforms, to as many eligible users as possible. The South African National Grid (SAGrid) is no exception. While access to the users is being simplified greatly by the adoption of science gateways and identity federations, the community of application developers and technical support in scientific collaborations does not yet have an easy way to integrate these applications in the first place.

SAGrid has identified this as a gap in the services it provides and has developed a solution to the issue of easily integrating new applications into the infrastructure in a fast, flexible, distributed and reproducible way. Using existing tools and services, we have defined a simple set of tests which applications need to pass in order to be considered valid for the infrastructure. These have been encoded as automated tests using a continuous integration platform. Interoperability between source code repositories, automated build systems, artifact creation and content delivery systems is crucial for the sustainability and uptake of the system; we will describe the work done and the reasoning behind the technology choices made.

We will show how the porting of applications can be made more reproducible, and how distribution of these applications has been simplified, compared to “traditional” means of deploying software on the grid and cloud. In particular, we will highlight the ease of collaboration. We thus describe a slightly different type of “science gateway”, relevant to application developers, which promotes collaboration, increases reproducibility of the work done, and ensures that there is a sustainable development of applications for Science Gateways connected to the African e-Infrastructure.
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