Deployment of transatlantic computational testbeds via the infrastructure manager

Germán Moltó, Miguel Caballer, Estíbaliz Parcero, and Vicente Rodríguez. Deployment of transatlantic computational testbeds via the infrastructure manager. Frontiers in Complex Systems, 4, 2 2026.

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Abstract

Transatlantic scientific collaborations require computational testbeds that can be provisioned on demand and reconfigured rapidly while spanning institutions in different regulatory and operational domains. During the DISCOVER-US exchange program, we integrated the Infrastructure Manager (IM), a TOSCA-based orchestrator for the computing continuum, with the Chameleon cloud infrastructure. The workflow combined federated identity management, delegated project administration, and an IM plugin that targets Chameleon’s OpenStack endpoints through application credentials. We validated the approach by deploying single virtual machines, a production-ready Galaxy environment, distributed OSCAR-based serverless clusters that offload an AI-based fish detection pipeline, a workflow for flood impact modeling, and a hybrid SLURM cluster. Transatlantic computational testbeds included dynamically provisioned computational resources from EGI Federated Cloud and Chameleon. The study also documents operational constraints encountered with lease automation, bare-metal introspection, and the exposure of Kubernetes services across wide-area networks. The resulting blueprint demonstrates a reproducible path to deploy secure, elastic, and scientifically useful transatlantic computational testbeds.

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@article{Molt2026,
   abstract = {
Transatlantic scientific collaborations require computational testbeds that can be provisioned on demand and reconfigured rapidly while spanning institutions in different regulatory and operational domains. During the DISCOVER-US exchange program, we integrated the Infrastructure Manager (IM), a TOSCA-based orchestrator for the computing continuum, with the Chameleon cloud infrastructure. The workflow combined federated identity management, delegated project administration, and an IM plugin that targets Chameleon’s OpenStack endpoints through application credentials. We validated the approach by deploying single virtual machines, a production-ready Galaxy environment, distributed OSCAR-based serverless clusters that offload an AI-based fish detection pipeline, a workflow for flood impact modeling, and a hybrid SLURM cluster. Transatlantic computational testbeds included dynamically provisioned computational resources from EGI Federated Cloud and Chameleon. The study also documents operational constraints encountered with lease automation, bare-metal introspection, and the exposure of Kubernetes services across wide-area networks. The resulting blueprint demonstrates a reproducible path to deploy secure, elastic, and scientifically useful transatlantic computational testbeds.
},
   author = {Germán Moltó and Miguel Caballer and Estíbaliz Parcero and Vicente Rodríguez},
   doi = {10.3389/fcpxs.2026.1724679},
   issn = {2813-6187},
   journal = {Frontiers in Complex Systems},
   month = {2},
   title = {Deployment of transatlantic computational testbeds via the infrastructure manager},
   volume = {4},
   url = {https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fcpxs.2026.1724679/full},
   year = {2026}
}