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Towards Provisioning of Reproducible, Reviewable and Reusable In-Silico Experiments with the GridSpace2 Platform
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The observed paradigm switch towards computational methods in research poses a serious challenge for e-infrastructure providers. Apart from delivering computing power, researchers are expected to create the foundation for complete and viable e-science environments. To address this demand, GridSpace2 was developed as a platform for provisioning reproducible, reviewable and reusable in-silico experiments. The resulting environment was applied in the scope of the PLGrid Plus project. In this work we analyze requirements, which should be met by in-silico experiments and describe how these requirements can be accommodated on the platform level, thus decreasing the costs of acquisition, preservation and curation of in-silico experiments. In order to evaluate our approach, we qualitatively assess how the features of GridSpace2 conform to these requirements and how the platform reduces the costs of provisioning in-silico experiments.
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e-science in-silico experiments reproducibility problem solving environments distributed computingPreview
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