VLAB: Web services, portlets, and workflows for enabling cyber-infrastructure in computational mineral physics

Evan F Bollig; Paul A. Jensen; Martin D. Lyness; Mehmet A. Nacar; Pedro R.C. da Silveira; Dan Kigelman; Gordon Erlebacher; Marlon Pierce; David A Yuen; Cesar R.S. da Silva

doi:10.1016/j.pepi.2007.03.005

VLAB: Web services, portlets, and workflows for enabling cyber-infrastructure in computational mineral physics

Evan F Bollig, Paul A. Jensen, Martin D. Lyness, Mehmet A. Nacar, Pedro R.C. da Silveira, Dan Kigelman, Gordon Erlebacher, Marlon Pierce, David A Yuen, Cesar R.S. da Silva

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Abstract

Virtual organizations are rapidly changing the way scientific communities perform research. Web-based portals, environments designed for collaboration and sharing data, have now become the nexus of distributed high performance computing. Within this paper, we address the infrastructure of the Virtual Laboratory for Earth and Planetary Materials (VLab), an organization dedicated to using quantum calculations to solve problems in mineral physics. VLab provides a front-end portal, accessible from a browser, for scientists to submit large-scale simulations and interactively analyze their results. The cyber-infrastructure of VLab concentrates on scientific workflows, portal development, responsive user-interfaces and automatic generation of web services, all necessary to ensure a maximum degree of flexibility and ease of use for both the expert scientist and the layperson.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	333-346
Number of pages	14
Journal	Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors
Volume	163
Issue number	1-4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pepi.2007.03.005
State	Published - Aug 15 2007

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This work is supported by the National Science Foundation's Information Technology Research (NSF grant ITR-0428774, 0427264, 0426867 VLab) program.

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Automation
Grid computing
Visualization
Web services
Workflows

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Bollig, E. F., Jensen, P. A., Lyness, M. D., Nacar, M. A., da Silveira, P. R. C., Kigelman, D., Erlebacher, G., Pierce, M., Yuen, D. A., & da Silva, C. R. S. (2007). VLAB: Web services, portlets, and workflows for enabling cyber-infrastructure in computational mineral physics. Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors, 163(1-4), 333-346. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pepi.2007.03.005

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