Dear All,
I wanted to update on my mid-term report of Google Summer of Code with Airavata-Apache. *Original Proposal Summary*: Apache Airavata MFT is a distributed high-performance, multi-protocol data transfer engine to orchestrate data movement and operations across most cloud and on-premises storages. Agent is the core of this distributed system which does the heavy lifting of transfer jobs. Right now, agents have to be manually deployed and configured to start the transfer. This is a problem for researchers and people who need to transfer data without having much technical skills or time. The proposed solution is to automate the process of deploying and lifecycle management of the agents when a transfer job is submitted from an edge machine. Upon requirements evaluation, along with my mentor I came up with an updated proposal including the cybershuttle agent to MFT agent. *Updated Proposal Summary*: Updated proposal includes creating a desktop application and cybershuttle server to communicate with each other. Next step is to guide cybershuttle agent and MFT agent from cybershuttle server to perform execution of jobs and data transfer, this would also maintain the lifecycle of cybershuttle agent and mft agents. *Progress made till now*: I have explored and finalized on the desktop tech stack as electronJS, Vuejs, grpc protocol. Development of desktop application and cybershuttle backend is done along with unit testing. Which concludes the important UI phase of the project. I have finalized the architecture for cybershuttle agent which will be using nomad and consul. Implementation of cybershuttle agent is in progress. *Pull requests made till now*: Desktop application – · Electron vue setup: https://github.com/cyber-shuttle/cybershuttle-agent/pull/1 · gRPC added: https://github.com/cyber-shuttle/cybershuttle-agent/pull/2 · gRPC-web update: https://github.com/cyber-shuttle/cybershuttle-agent/pull/3 · Login/signup: https://github.com/cyber-shuttle/cybershuttle-agent/pull/4 · Persistent storage and dynamic navbar: https://github.com/cyber-shuttle/cybershuttle-agent/pull/5 · Cybershuttle services: https://github.com/cyber-shuttle/cybershuttle-agent/pull/6 · App items views: https://github.com/cyber-shuttle/cybershuttle-agent/pull/7 Cybershuttle app server: · Appserver setup: https://github.com/cyber-shuttle/cybershuttle-server/pull/1 · Login/signup backend: https://github.com/cyber-shuttle/cybershuttle-server/pull/2 · Cybershuttle services backend: https://github.com/cyber-shuttle/cybershuttle-server/pull/3 *Plans going forward*: · Develop cybershuttle orchestration agent using nomad · Setup consul as the message broker between cybershuttle server and orchestration agent in local · Deploy cybershuttle agent and mft agent along with cybershuttle application · Unit test and integration testing of the whole software Thank you for your continuous support in the whole process and I truly enjoy building groundbreaking solutions with the team. Best Regards, Praneeth Chityala
