Research Article

Science gateways made easy: the In-VIGO approach

  1. Andréa M. Matsunaga,
  2. Maurício O. Tsugawa,
  3. Sumalatha Adabala,
  4. Renato J. Figueiredo,
  5. Herman Lam,
  6. José A. B. Fortes*

Article first published online: 10 OCT 2006

DOI: 10.1002/cpe.1083

Issue

Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience

Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience

Special Issue: Science Gateways—Common Community Interfaces to Grid Resources

Volume 19, Issue 6, pages 905–919, 25 April 2007

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How to Cite

Matsunaga, A. M., Tsugawa, M. O., Adabala, S., Figueiredo, R. J., Lam, H. and Fortes, J. A. B. (2007), Science gateways made easy: the In-VIGO approach. Concurrency Computat.: Pract. Exper., 19: 905–919. doi: 10.1002/cpe.1083

Author Information

  1. Advanced Computing and Information Systems Laboratory (ACIS), Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Florida, P.O. Box 116200, Gainesville, FL 32611-6200, U.S.A.

*Advanced Computing and Information Systems Laboratory (ACIS), Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Florida, P.O. Box 116200, Gainesville, FL 32611-6200, U.S.A.

Publication History

  1. Issue published online: 13 MAR 2007
  2. Article first published online: 10 OCT 2006
  3. Manuscript Accepted: 20 MAR 2006
  4. Manuscript Revised: 5 MAR 2006
  5. Manuscript Received: 15 AUG 2005

Funded by

  • National Science Foundation. Grant Numbers: EIA-9975275, EIA-0224442, ACI-0219925, EEC-0228390
  • NSF Middleware Initiative (NMI). Grant Numbers: ANI-0301108/ANI-0222828, SCI-0438246
  • Army Research Office Defense University Research Initiative in Nanotechnology
  • Office of Naval Research. Grant Number: N00014-04-1-0721
  • NOAA Ocean Service. Grant Number: NA04NOS4730254

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Keywords:

  • Grid computing;
  • Grid service;
  • virtualization;
  • science gateway

Abstract

Science gateways require the easy enabling of legacy scientific applications on computing Grids and the generation of user-friendly interfaces that hide the complexity of the Grid from the user. This paper presents the In-VIGO approach to the creation and management of science gateways. First, we discuss the virtualization of machines, networks and data to facilitate the dynamic creation of secure execution environments that meet application requirements. Then we discuss the virtualization of applications, i.e. the execution on shared resources of multiple isolated application instances with customized behavior, in the context of In-VIGO. A Virtual Application Service (VAS) architecture for automatically generating, customizing, deploying, and using virtual applications as Grid services is then described. Starting with a grammar-based description of the command-line syntax, the automated process generates the VAS description and the VAS implementation (code for application encapsulation and data binding) that is deployed and made available through a Web interface. A VAS can be customized on a per-user basis by restricting the capabilities of the original application or by adding to it features such as parameter sweeping. This is a scalable approach to the integration of scientific applications as services into Grids and can be applied to any tool with an arbitrarily complex command-line syntax. Copyright © 2006 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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