Enabling Remote Management of FaaS Endpoints with Globus Compute Multi-User Endpoints

Abstract

Globus Compute implements a hybrid Function as a Service (FaaS) model in which a single cloud-hosted service is used by users to manage execution of Python functions on user-owned and - managed Globus Compute endpoints deployed on arbitrary compute resources. Here we describe a new multi-user and multi-configuration Globus Compute endpoint. This system, which can be deployed by administrators in a privileged account, enables dynamic creation of user endpoints that are forked as new processes in user space. The multi-user endpoint is designed to provide the security interfaces necessary for deployment on large, shared