Introduction

The Cloud Computing Platform (CCP) is a service designed to offer on-demand and scalable access to computing resources, including processing environments, storage, and configurable execution workflows.

It allows users to execute, re-execute, demonstrate, and share scientific methods — such as algorithms, scripts, or entire computational pipelines — without the need to manage physical infrastructure or handle software dependencies.
This is achieved while abstracting away technical implementation details, enabling a focus on scientific reproducibility and collaboration.

Key Benefits

CCP provides the following advantages:

  • Faster time-to-science: Accelerated development and execution through rapid deployment

  • Scalability and flexibility: Dynamic adaptation of computational resources based on workload and context

  • Improved collaboration: Shared access to methods, data, and results across distributed teams

  • Increased productivity: Researchers can focus on scientific goals without infrastructure concerns

  • High performance: Reliable and responsive execution environments with minimal latency

  • Disaster recovery: Easy restoration of executions and applications in case of failure

  • Technological competitiveness: Immediate access to modern tools and technologies

Technological Foundations

CCP builds upon the experience of the DataMiner initiative (D4Science) and reflects a complete redesign of that model.

It introduces a modern execution paradigm based on:

  • Containerization: Isolation and portability of execution environments

  • RESTful APIs: Programmatic access and integration capabilities

  • JSON-based configuration: Declarative method definitions and input parameterization

This architecture embraces recent trends in ICT — including microservices, composability, and service orchestration — to support interoperability and efficient reuse of computational assets.

Documentation Overview

This documentation is structured into thematic sections:

  • Quickstart: Introductory walkthroughs to CCP and its interface

  • User Guides: Practical usage scenarios and best practices

  • Method Development: Guidelines for defining and publishing custom methods

  • Execution Details: Information about generated metadata and output structure

  • Architecture: Conceptual and technical design foundations

  • REST API: Reference documentation for interacting with CCP programmatically

To begin exploring the platform, continue to the 🚀 Quickstart section