Towards the Scientific Workbench and ScienceStore for Astroparticle Physics
H. Kornmayer · 2012
Scientists are dealing with a larger and more complex IT infrastructure in their daily work. With the advent of Grid and Cloud technologies this trend continues. Scientists will not only deal with local managed resources, but with resources provided by an arbitrary Cloud service provider. In order to support the scientist in his daily work a scientific workbench is required to interact with IT resources and to perform scientific analysis on them. The g-Eclipse framework is such a platform for Grid/Cloud computing based on the Eclipse ecosystem. Based on the g-Eclipse/Eclipse architecture new scientific applications/tools can be integrated in this workbench. The g-Eclipse workbench is an ideal starting point for building such a workbench for astro particle physics. The usage of remote Cloud resources requires the development of an interoperable communication and software provisioning system too. Using OSGi as a interoperable, provider-independent platform for Cloud computing, the management of the Cloud resources will be simplified significantly. The delivery of software on the scientists computer and on his Cloud resources with a ScienceStore/ScienStore component will be as easy as the deployment of little applications on end customers smart phones.