EDISON Science Gateway: A Cyber-Environment for Domain-Neutral Scientific Computing

Abstract

SUMMARYWe discuss a new high performance computing service (HPCS) platform that has been developed to provide domain-neutral computing service under the governmental support from "EDucation-research Integration through Simulation On the Net" (EDISON) project. With a first focus on technical features, we not only present in-depth explanations of the implementation details, but also describe the strengths of the EDISON platform against the successful nanoHUB.org gateway. To validate the performance and utility of the platform, we provide benchmarking results for the resource virtualization framework, and prove the stability and promptness of the EDISON platform in processing simulation requests by analyzing several statistical datasets obtained from a three-month trial service in the initiative area of computational nanoelectronics. We firmly believe that this work provides a good opportunity for understanding the science gateway project ongoing for the first time in Republic of Korea, and that the technical details presented here can be served as an useful guideline for any potential designs of HPCS platforms.

An Empirical Study on the Intention to Reuse Computational Science and Engineering Platforms: A Case Study of EDISON

“…In particular, HUBZero, a platform of the nanoHUB service developed by Purdue University in 1995, is a representative CSE platform, currently being used in about 30 fields [5]. In Korea, the Korean Institute of Science and Technology Information (KISTI) developed and serviced the ED-ucation-research Integration through Simulation On the Net (EDISON) platform, with the support of the Ministry of Science and ICT, in order to support online education and research in the CSE field [6,7,8].…”