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The Astrophysics Simulation Collaboratory: A Science Portal Enabling Community Software Development

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Grid Portals, based on standard web technologies, are emerging as important and useful user interfaces to computational and data Grids. Grid Portals enable Virtual Organizations, comprised of distributed researchers to collaborate and access resources more efficiently and seamlessly. The Astrophysics Simulation Collaboratory (ASC) Grid Portal provides a framework to enable researchers in the field of numerical relativity to study astrophysical phenomenon by making use of the Cactus computational toolkit. We examine user requirements and describe the design and implementation of the ASC Grid Portal.

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  1. University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA

    Michael Russell & Ian Foster

  2. Max-Planck-Institut für Gravitationsphysik, Albert-Einstein-Institut, Golm, Germany

    Gabrielle Allen & Edward Seidel

  3. National Center for Supercomputing Applications, Champaign, IL, USA

    Greg Daues, Edward Seidel & John Shalf

  4. Argonne National Laboratory, Chicago, IL, USA

    Ian Foster & Gregor von Laszewski

  5. Lawrence Barkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, USA

    Jason Novotny

  6. Lawrence Barkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, USA

    John Shalf

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Russell, M., Allen, G., Daues, G. et al. The Astrophysics Simulation Collaboratory: A Science Portal Enabling Community Software Development. Cluster Computing 5, 297–304 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1015629422149

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