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Community software development with the Astrophysics Simulation Collaboratory
Author(s) -
von Laszewski Gregor,
Russell Michael,
Foster Ian,
Shalf John,
Allen Gabrielle,
Daues Greg,
Novotny Jason,
Seidel Edward
Publication year - 2002
Publication title -
concurrency and computation: practice and experience
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.309
H-Index - 67
eISSN - 1532-0634
pISSN - 1532-0626
DOI - 10.1002/cpe.688
Subject(s) - collaboratory , computer science , grid , grid computing , code (set theory) , field (mathematics) , world wide web , programming language , geography , set (abstract data type) , mathematics , geodesy , pure mathematics
We describe a Grid‐based collaboratory that supports the collaborative development and use of advanced simulation codes. Our implementation of this collaboratory uses a mix of Web technologies (for thin‐client access) and Grid services (for secure remote access to, and management of, distributed resources). Our collaboratory enables researchers in geographically disperse locations to share and access compute, storage, and code resources, without regard to institutional boundaries. Specialized services support community code development, via specialized Grid services, such as online code repositories. We use this framework to construct the Astrophysics Simulation Collaboratory, a domain‐specific collaboratory for the astrophysics simulation community. This Grid‐based collaboratory enables researchers in the field of numerical relativity to study astrophysical phenomena by using the Cactus computational toolkit. Copyright © 2002 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.