Title
Vlab: Collaborative Grid Services And Portals To Support Computational Material Science
Abstract
We present the initial architecture and implementation of VLab, a Grid and Web-Service-based system for enabling distributed and collaborative computational chemistry and material science applications for the study of planetary materials. The requirements of VLab include job preparation and submission, job monitoring, data storage and analysis, and distributed collaboration. These components are divided into client entry (input file creation, visualization of data, task requests) and back-end services (storage, analysis, computation). Clients and services communicate through NaradaBrokering, a publish/subscribe Grid middleware system that identifies specific hardware information with topics rather than IP addresses. We describe three aspects of VLab in this paper: (1) managing user interfaces and input data with JavaBeans and Java Server Faces; (2) integrating Java Server Faces with the Java CoG Kit; and (3) designing a middleware framework that supports collaboration. To prototype our collaboration and visualization infrastructure, we have developed a service that transforms a scalar data set into its wavelet representation. General adaptors are placed between the endpoints and NaradaBrokering, which serve to isolate the clients/services from the middleware. This permits client and service development independently of potential changes to the middleware. Copyright (c) 2007 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
Year
DOI
Venue
2007
10.1002/cpe.1199
CONCURRENCY AND COMPUTATION-PRACTICE & EXPERIENCE
Keywords
Field
DocType
cyber infrastructure, portal, science gateway, computational material science, messaging middleware, collaboration
Computational material science,Architecture,Software engineering,Computer science,Cyber infrastructure,Science gateway,Grid,Distributed computing
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
19
12
1532-0626
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
5
0.46
6
Authors
10
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Mehmet A. Nacar1565.17
Mehmet S. Aktas29118.61
Marlon E. Pierce324640.56
Zhenyu Lu451.47
Gordon Erlebacher544334.54
Dan Kigelman650.46
Evan F. Bollig7272.84
Cesar R. S. da Silva881.25
Benny Sowell950.46
David A. Yuen108214.75