Building QuakeSim Portlets with GTLAB
Mehmet Akif Nacar · 2007
The QuakeSim portal is a problem solving environment to develop a solid Earth science framework for modelling and understanding earthquakes. In this study, we proposed an evolutionary approach to allow TeraGrid usage in addition to our own clusters for QuakeSim portal. Our approach is based on our Grid Tag Libraries and Beans (GTLAB) libraries, which encapsulate common Grid operations with reusable XML tags. GTLAB enables rapid development of grid portlets rather than typical portlet development techniques. Although it adds a new layer to programming stack, our experiments show that the performance delay is tolerable in Web applications.