Computational Science and Engineering Online (CSE-Online):  A cyber-infrastructure for scientific computing

Thanh N. Truong

Department of Chemistry and the Interdisciplinary Computational
Engineering and Science Program
University of Utah

Email: 
truong@chem.utah.edu

Abstract:
With the expansion of the Internet and World-Wide-Web (or the Web), research environments have changed dramatically.  As a result, the need to be able to efficiently and securely access information and resources from remote computer systems is becoming even more critical.  The presentation will describe the development of an extendable integrated web-accessible simulation environment called Computational Science and Engineering Online (CSE-Online, http://cse-online.net).  CSE-Online is based on a unique client-server software architecture that can distribute the workload between the client and server computers in such a way as to minimize the communication between the client and server thus making the environment less sensitive to the network instability.  Furthermore, the new software architecture allows the user to concurrently access data and resources on multiple remote servers as well as the computing grid while having the full capability of the web-services collaborative environment. It can be accessed anytime and anywhere from a web-browser connected to the network by either a wired or wireless connection.  CSE-Online is evolving into a middleware that can provide a framework for accessing and managing remote data and resources including the computing grid for any domain, not necessarily within computational science and engineering.