Brokering between tenants for an international materials acceleration platform
Monika Vogler, Jonas Busk, Hamidreza Hajiyani, Peter Bjørn Jørgensen, Nehzat Safaei, Ivano E. Castelli, Francisco Ramirez, Johan M. Carlsson, Giovanni Pizzi, Simon Clark, Felix Hanke, Arghya Bhowmik, Helge S. Stein
Abstract
The efficient utilization of resources in accelerated materials science necessitates flexible, reconfigurable software-defined research workflows. We demonstrate a brokering approach to modular and asynchronous research orchestration to integrate multiple laboratories in a cooperative multitenancy platform across disciplines and modalities. To the best of our knowledge, this constitutes the first internationally distributed materials acceleration platform (MAP) linked via a passive brokering server, which is demonstrated through a battery electrolyte workflow capable of determining density, viscosity, ionic conductivity, heat capacity, diffusion coefficients, transference numbers, and radial distribution functions that ran in five countries over the course of 2 weeks. We discuss the lessons learned from multitenancy and fault tolerance and chart a way to a universal battery MAP with fully ontology-linked schemas and cost-aware orchestration.