Second UKHEC Annual Seminar Abstract

Grid-Enabled Science: The EPCC ePortal

We present the first running prototype of EPCC's ePortal, a fully service-based and user-driven Grid portal for large-scale computational e-science. The aim of ePortal is to allow scientists to select a service to run their particular jobs using their favourite application, but in a transparent way that frees them from the details of the computing and allows them to concentrate on the science. ePortal builds on the system-neutral Internet standards of Java-2 and XML and offers a flexible, extensible service-based architecture. Our results demonstrate a prototype version of ePortal running services for the UK Magnetohydrodynamics scientific consortium.

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