Description
The task to take advantage of grids can be a challenge for scientists with limited computational expertise. For this group of users, there is a need for more user-friendly points of interaction. Portals and Gateways provide an access-point which abstracts away technical details, and allows users to focus on their research; every scientist does not have to be a computer expert.
Grid portals have the advantage that there is no need for the user to install software locally, which significantly simplifies maintenance and sustainability. In fact, the user sometimes does not even know that the underlying resources are grids. For grids to have the largest impact, it is important to make resources available as widely as possible. Scientific gateways and portals have the potential to build more and larger user communities, open for the use of grids in more disciplines, and foster collaborative environments.
Portals can provide means to interact with, for example, grid middlewares and/or Web services, or be devoted to a scientific domain. In this session, we will hear about two general-purpose portal engines and two domain-oriented portals. In common, they have that they hide the sometimes complex technologies, delivers access and visually oriented means to interact with data and computational resources, and have extensible architecture.
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Mr George Kourousias (Sincrotrone Trieste S.C.p.A.), Mr Milan Prica (Sincrotrone Trieste S.C.p.A.), Dr Roberto Pugliese (Sincrotrone Trieste S.C.p.A.)12/04/2010, 15:30End-user environments, scientific gateways and portal technologiesOralThe Virtual Control Room (VCR) is an open source web portal that puts together a rich collaborative environment with the simplified access to the gLite Grid resources. The latest version of the VCR is based on the Gridsphere 3 and Google Web Toolkit (GWT). It uses the DORII Java Common Library for accessing Grid resources, integrates DORII Workflow Management System, presents a much improved...Go to contribution page
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Peter Kacsuk (SZTAKI)12/04/2010, 15:50End-user environments, scientific gateways and portal technologiesOralScience gateways are important tools to provide user friendly access to various grid systems for various user communities. The most popular way of creating science gateways is the establishment of grid portals through which users can access grid facilities without any grid installation. In many cases science gateway portals completely hide the underlying grid infrastructure and some of them...Go to contribution page
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Dr Tapani Kinnunen (CSC - IT Center for Science Ltd.)12/04/2010, 16:10End-user environments, scientific gateways and portal technologiesOralSOMA2 gateway is a WWW-browser operated molecular modeling workflow environment developed and deployed by CSC. The SOMA2 environment allows users to control and combine scientific applications available in the computing system into unique application workflows, which are automatically executed. SOMA2 offers a flexible framework for integrating and executing molecular modeling applications,...Go to contribution page
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Mr Charalampos Doukas (University of the Aegean)12/04/2010, 16:30End-user environments, scientific gateways and portal technologiesOralRecent advances in biomedical applications like DNA sequencing, microarray data generation, high-throughput, gene-function studies, medical imaging, and electronic medical records, have resulted in the automatic generation of new and vast data repositories. Mining and managing such biomedical data is a complex procedure that requires several processing phases. Especially in the case of...Go to contribution page