Paper Info
Title
Improvements of the UltraScan scientific gateway to enable computational jobs on large-scale and open-standards based cyberinfrastructures
Abstract
The UltraScan data analysis application is a software package that is able to take advantage of computational resources in order to support the interpretation of analytical ultracentrifugation (AUC) experiments. Since 2006, the UltraScan scientific gateway has been used with ordinary Web browsers in TeraGrid by scientists studying the solution properties of biological and synthetic molecules. Unlike other applications, UltraScan is implemented on a gateway architecture and leverages the power of supercomputing to extract very high resolution information from the experimental data. In this contribution, we will focus on several improvements of the UltraScan scientific gateway that enable a standardized job submission and management to computational resources while retaining its lightweight design in order to not disturb the established workflows of its end-users. This paper further presents a walkthrough of the architectural design including one real installation deployment of UltraScan in Europe. The aim is to provide evidence for the added value of open standards and resulting interoperability enabling not only UltraScan application submissions to resources offered in the US cyber infrastructure Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment (XSEDE), but also submissions to similar infrastructures in Europe and around the world. The use of the Apache Airavata framework for scientific gateways within our approach bears the potential to have an impact on several other scientific gateways too.
Year
DOI
Venue
2013
10.1145/2484762.2484800
XSEDE
Keywords
Field
DocType
computational resource,scientific gateway,apache airavata framework,gateway architecture,computational job,lightweight design,ultrascan data analysis application,ultrascan scientific gateway,experimental data,architectural design,ultrascan application submission
TeraGrid,Data mining,Open standard,Software deployment,Computer science,Interoperability,Parallel computing,Software,Default gateway,Software walkthrough,Workflow
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
1
0.36
10
Authors
12
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Shahbaz Memon1247.68
N. Attig2215.62
Gary Gorbet331.13
Lahiru Gunathilake4635.83
Morris Riedel524834.33
Morris Riedel624834.33
Thomas Lippert710.36
Suresh Marru825340.15
Andrew Grimshaw926423.91
Florian Janetzko1092.95
Borries Demeler11306.51
Raminder Singh1210510.23