@article{3ee4985ec499407d8f48ca255758f5a7,
title = "The Astrophysics Simulation Collaboratory Portal: A framework for effective distributed research",
abstract = "We describe the Astrophysics Simulation Collaboratory (ASC) Portal, a collaborative environment in which distributed projects can perform research. The ASC project seeks to provide a web-based problem solving framework for the astrophysics community to harness Computational Grids. To facilitate collaboration amongst distributed researchers within a virtual organization, the ASC Portal supplies specialized tools for the management of large-scale numerical simulations and the resources on which they are performed. The ASC virtual organization uses the Cactus framework for studying numerical relativity and astrophysics phenomena. We describe the architecture of the ASC Portal and present its components with emphasis on elements related to the Cactus framework.",
keywords = "Astrophysics Simulation Collaboratory Portal, Cactus, Globus, Grid computing, GridLab",
author = "Ruxandra Bondarescu and Gabrielle Allen and Gregory Daues and Ian Kelley and Michael Russell and Edward Seidel and John Shalf and Malcolm Tobias",
note = "Funding Information: First, we would like to thank the physics users of the ASC VO, in particular Peter Diener, Frank Herrmann, Denis Pollney and Jian Tao. We would like to recognize Brad and Galina Wind for developing LCAVision, an advanced three-dimensional AMR visualization tool as part ASC project. We also thank Brad for his contributions to the ASC Portal. We gratefully acknowledge the help of the Cactus team, particularly Tom Goodale, Gerd Lanfermann, and Thomas Radke, and our ASC and GridLab colleagues Thomas Dramlitsch, Ian Foster, Sai Iyer, Gregor von Laszewski, Jason Novotny, Miroslav Rudek, Wai-Mo Suen and Oliver Wehrens. We especially acknowledge Cornel Izbasa, Dana Petcu, Victor Bobea, Dumitru Vulcanov, Cristian Bucovan, Mihai Burada, Catalin Milos, Gabriela Turcu, and other students of West University, and Politehnica University of Timisoara, Romania for portal testing. The ASC project is funded by the NSF (KDI 9979985) with computational support from US NRAC grant 93S025. Important contributions to this work have been made by the EU GridLab (IST-2001-32133) and Astrophysics Network (HPRN-CT-2000-00137) projects, and the German DFN Verein GriKSL project (TK 602-AN 200). We thank the staff at NCSA, LRZ, AHPCC, SDSC, PSC and RZG who have provided the necessary software installations and support at the different sites used by the ASC VO. We also acknowledge generous support from Microsoft. Funding Information: Edward Seidel has led both the Computer Science and the Numerical Relativity Research groups at the Albert Einstein Institute in Germany for the past 7 years, with over 120 publications spanning both disciplines. Seidel holds additional positions as Senior Research Scientist at NCSA and as Adjunct Professor at the University of Illinois. Seidel is a co-chair of the Global Grid Forum Applications Working Group, and is a PI for the NSF funded Astrophysics Simulation Collaboratory, the European GridLab project, and the German DFN GriKSL project. Seidel has a PhD from Yale University. ",
year = "2005",
doi = "10.1016/j.future.2003.10.008",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "21",
pages = "259--270",
journal = "Future Generation Computer Systems",
issn = "0167-739X",
publisher = "Elsevier B.V.",
number = "2",
}