To provide this simple and intuitive access to the supercomputing infrastructure an in-house application framework called *HEAppE* has been developed. This framework is utilizing a mid-layer principle, in software terminology also known as middleware. Middleware manages and provides information about submitted and running jobs and their data between the client application and the HPC infrastructure. *HEAppE* is able to submit required computation or simulation on HPC infrastructure, monitor the progress and notify the user should the need arise. It provides necessary functions for job management, monitoring and reporting, user authentication and authorization, file transfer, encryption, and various notification mechanisms.
## References
HEAppE Middleeware has already been successfully used in several public or commercial projects:
* in crisis decision support system **Floreon+** for What-If analysis workflow utilizing HPC clusters; https://floreon.eu
* in **Urban Thematic Exploitation Platform** (Urban-TEP) financed by ESA as a middleware enabling sandbox execution of docker images on the cluster; https://urban-tep.eo.esa.int
* in H2020 project ExCaPE as a part of *Drug Discovery Platform* enabling execution of drug discovery scientific pipelines on a supercomputer
* in the area of molecular diagnostics and personalized medicine in the scope of the **Moldimed** project as a part of the Massive Parallel Sequencing Platform for analysis of NGS data; https://www.imtm.cz/moldimed
* in the area of bio-imaging as a integral part of FIJI plugin providing unified access to HPC clusters for image data processing; http://fiji.sc
## Licence
HEAppE Middleware will be released as an open-source by October 2018. However this software is currently available to use on an on-demand basis after contacting us (vaclav.svaton@vsb.cz).
## IT4Innovations national supercomputing center
The IT4Innovations national supercomputing center operates supercomputers Salomon and Anselm. The supercomputers are available to academic community within the Czech Republic and Europe and industrial community worldwide. Both supercomputers are available to users via HEAppE Middleware.
