# FirecREST: RESTful API on Cray XC systems

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.13160 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/1911.13160/

## Key facts

- Cited by 2 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- First posted on arXiv 29 Nov 2019.

## Built on by (most cited first, 2 of 2)

- [Evolving HPC services to enable ML workloads on HPE Cray EX](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2507.01880/) (2025)
- [ASCEND: Personal AI Agents for Autonomous Scientific Computing Across HPC Clusters and GPU Workstations](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2609.32868/) (2026)

## Abstract (arXiv)

As science gateways are becoming an increasingly popular digital interface for scientific communities, it is also becoming increasingly important for High-Performance Computing centers to provide a modern Web-enabled APIs. With such interface, science gateways can easily integrate access to HPC center resources. This work presents the FirecREST API, a RESTful Web API infrastructure that allows scientific communities to access the various integrated resources and services available from the Cray XC systems at the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre. FirecREST requirements are derived from use cases described in this work.