Paper Info
Title
A science gateway for Exploring the X-ray Transient and variable sky using EGI Federated Cloud.
Abstract
Modern soft X-ray observatories can yield unique insights into time domain astrophysics, and a huge amount of information is stored – and largely unexploited – in data archives. Like a treasure-hunt, the EXTraS project harvested the hitherto unexplored temporal domain information buried in the serendipitous data collected by the European Photon Imaging Camera instrument onboard the ESA XMM-Newton, in 16 years of observations. All results have been released to the scientific community, together with new software analysis tools. This paper presents the architecture of the EXTraS science gateway, that has the goal to provide the software through a web based portal using the EGI Federated Cloud infrastructure. The main focus is on the light software architecture of the portal and on the technological insights for an effective use of the EGI ecosystem.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.1016/j.future.2017.12.028
Future Generation Computer Systems
Keywords
Field
DocType
Science gateways,Microservices,Astrophysics
Data science,Architecture,Computer science,Software analysis pattern,Sky,Software,Microservices,Web application,Software architecture,Cloud computing,Distributed computing
Journal
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
94
0167-739X
2
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.39
11
10
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Daniele D'Agostino113023.39
Luca Roverelli292.94
Gabriele Zereik392.61
Giuseppe La Rocca441.13
Andrea De Luca593.38
Ruben Salvaterra621.06
Andrea Belfiore721.06
Gianni Lisini820721.99
Giovanni Novara921.06
Andrea Tiengo1021.06