Building an Application Portal for Geoscience
John R. Lewis, Promita Chakraborty, Lei Zhou, Xin Li, Chongjie Zhang, Chris D. White, Gabrielle Allen · 2006
Grid technology will be a valuable technique providing both the software and resources necessary for calculating complex algorithms used in predicting geological phenomenon. This setup is enabling huge, expensive, multi-processing servers to be replaced by many small, relatively cheaper personal computers. With the ever expansion of petroleum drilling projects, reducing time and money are becoming the basic objectives for reservoir engineers. The idea is to create an application that will allow users to access across the internet, from any web browser, a computational grid. There they can input data from their drilling site to a main server from where it can be distributed over a network of computers and then processed and simulated. The UCoMS project portal group is developing the web interface to input the drilling and simulator parameters and the middleware group is setting up the programs to handle the requests from the portal and processing of the parameter values. As part of this project we hope to achieve by using the Apache Ant with the Jakarta Tomcat container in conjunction with the GridSphere / GridPortlets framework to setup an application. We were able to setup a grid of computers at various institutions in the state of Louisiana. We hope that in the future to setup the UCoMS grid to apply to other applications requiring the need for high performance processing.