TY - JOUR
T1 - SimpleGrid toolkit
T2 - Enabling geosciences gateways to cyberinfrastructure
AU - Wang, Shaowen
AU - Liu, Yan
AU - Wilkins-Diehr, Nancy
AU - Martin, Stuart
N1 - Funding Information:
This research was supported in part by the National Science Foundation through the TeraGrid Grid Infrastructure Group project award # 0503697. We are grateful to the insightful comments of the editor and two anonymous reviewers.
PY - 2009/12
Y1 - 2009/12
N2 - Cyberinfrastructure science and engineering gateways have become an important modality to connect science and engineering communities and cyberinfrastructure. The use of cyberinfrastructure through gateways is fundamental to the advancement of science and engineering. However, learning science gateway technologies and developing science gateways remain a significant challenge, given that science gateway technologies are still actively evolving and often include a number of sophisticated components. A geosciences gateway must be designed to accommodate legacy methods that geoscientists use in conventional computational tools. The research described in this paper establishes an open-source toolkit-SimpleGrid for learning and developing science gateways based on a service-oriented architecture using a component-based approach that allows flexible separation and integration of the components between geocomputation applications and cyberinfrastructure. The design and implementation of SimpleGrid is based on the National Science Foundation TeraGrid-a key element of the U.S. and world cyberinfrastructure. This paper illustrates our experience of using SimpleGrid and a spatial interpolation method in a tutorial to teach TeraGrid science gateways.
AB - Cyberinfrastructure science and engineering gateways have become an important modality to connect science and engineering communities and cyberinfrastructure. The use of cyberinfrastructure through gateways is fundamental to the advancement of science and engineering. However, learning science gateway technologies and developing science gateways remain a significant challenge, given that science gateway technologies are still actively evolving and often include a number of sophisticated components. A geosciences gateway must be designed to accommodate legacy methods that geoscientists use in conventional computational tools. The research described in this paper establishes an open-source toolkit-SimpleGrid for learning and developing science gateways based on a service-oriented architecture using a component-based approach that allows flexible separation and integration of the components between geocomputation applications and cyberinfrastructure. The design and implementation of SimpleGrid is based on the National Science Foundation TeraGrid-a key element of the U.S. and world cyberinfrastructure. This paper illustrates our experience of using SimpleGrid and a spatial interpolation method in a tutorial to teach TeraGrid science gateways.
KW - Component-based software engineering
KW - Cyberinfrastructure
KW - Grid computing
KW - Science and engineering gateways
KW - Service-oriented architecture
KW - Spatial interpolation
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U2 - 10.1016/j.cageo.2009.05.002
DO - 10.1016/j.cageo.2009.05.002
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:70350202497
VL - 35
SP - 2283
EP - 2294
JO - Computers and Geosciences
JF - Computers and Geosciences
SN - 0098-3004
IS - 12
ER -