Publication Date
6-1-2014
Document Type
Conference Proceeding
Abstract
Cloud infrastructures for modelling activities such as data processing, performing environmental simulations, or conducting model calibrations/optimizations provide a cost effective alternative to traditional high performance computing approaches. Cloud - based modelling examples emerged into the m ore formal notion: 'Model - as - a - Service' (MaaS). This paper presents the Cloud Services Innovation Platform (CSIP) as a software framework offering MaaS. It describes both the internal CSIP infrastructure and software architecture that manages cloud resources for typical modelling tasks, and the use of CSIP's ' ModelServices API ' for a modelling application . CSIP's architecture supports fast and resource aware auto - scaling of computational resources. An example model service is presented: the USDA hydrograph model EFH2 used in the desktop - based 'engineering field tools' is deployed as a CSIP service. This and other MaaS CSIP examples benefit from the use of cloud resources to enable straightforward scalable model deployment into cloud environments.
Publication Title
iEMSs 2014 International Congress on Environmental Modeling and Software - Bold Visions for Environmental Modelling, Seventh Biennial Meeting
Recommended Citation
David, O.; Lloyd, W.; Rojas, K.; Arabi, M.; Geter, F.; Ascough II, James C.; Green, T.; Leavesley, G.; and Carlson, J., "Model-As-A-Service (MaaS) Using the Cloud Services Innovation Platform (CSIP)" (2014). School of Engineering and Technology Publications. 13.
https://digitalcommons.tacoma.uw.edu/tech_pub/13
