Scientific Computing in a Web Browser: GALPROP WebRun

by Andrey Vladimirov 30. June 2012 17:52

Complete paper:  Colfax_Galprop_WebRun.pdf (1.86 mb)

As scientific software tools become increasingly complex and computationally demanding, sharing the source code of a scientific project with the community may be insufficient to support peer interest and ensure the appropriate use of the tools. In order to facilitate the use of astrophysical code GALPROP, our group has launched a public online service named GALPROP WebRun. This service, live since August 2010, includes: the ability to configure GALPROP computing tasks in a Web browser; access to a dedicated computing cluster and precompiled binaries for code execution; and user support in the form of online documentation, automated validation tools, and forum/bug reporting online software. This paper reports the details and status of the GALPROP WebRun project as well as our experience with it.

Complete paper:  Colfax_Galprop_WebRun.pdf (1.86 mb)

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Andrey Vladimirov, PhD, is a physicist with a longstanding interest in high performance computing. His research topics include computer simulations of cosmic ray production and propagation and collisionless plasma modeling. Andrey is a postdoctoral scholar at Stanford University.

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Vadim Karpusenko, PhD, is a Research Associate at Colfax International. His research interests are in the area of physical modeling with HPC clusters, highly parallel architectures, and code optimization. Vadim holds a PhD in Physics from North Carolina State University for his computational research of the free energy and stability of helical secondary structures of proteins.

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