A Science Gateway - MOWIC: Modern Web Interface for Cluster
Daniel Cleland, Chi Shen · International Journal of Computer Applications · 2013
High performance computing has been developed over the years providing researchers with the most powerful computational machines available at a given time.The National Science Foundation, which directs research and development of these resources, has outlined goals for developing sustainable and extensible HPC systems and services, [1][2].These goals include the developments of systems that support individuals as well as groups to more easily use computation [1].Both the user interfaces and the detail of building custom software prove to be a hurdle for researchers who don't have access to computational human resources.Making these things easier to use for non-computer experts would increase the usage of existing resources and software.Making completed programs accessible via the web saves resources by encouraging researchers to reuse existing code.In this paper, we developed a science gateway ---MOWIC, the Modern Web-based Interface for Clusters, which attempts to meet many demands for research on parallel systems.It requires only that the user has a web browser.It can easily used with most hardware and software.MOWIC tool attempts to prototype an interface that can tie together all computational programs and visualization tools in research clusters.