The HPC community is actively researching and evaluating tools to support execution of scientific applications in cloud-based environments. Among the various technologies, containers have recently gained importance as they have significantly better ...

Apache Airavata is an open-source software framework that enables scientific researchers to compose, manage, execute and monitor large-scale applications and workflows on distributed computing resources. Airavata is currently leveraged by many science ...

Science Gateways provide user environments and a set of supporting services that help researchers make effective and enhanced use of a diverse set of computing, storage, and related resources. In a software framework like Airavata, the distributed ...

Science gateways enable researchers from broad communities to access advanced computing and storage resources. The researchers analyze large amounts of data using the compute resources and the generated results, usually files are saved in the storage. ...

Science Gateways are virtual environments that accelerate scientific discovery by enabling scientific communities to more easily and effectively utilize distributed computing and data resources. Successful Science Gateways provide access to sophisticated ...

The Einstein Toolkit (ETK) is an open-source software platform for computational simulations in relativistic astrophysics and gravitational physics. The Cactus Framework (Cactus) comprises the core component of the ETK and handles creation of distributed ...

Not all the researchers are comfortable in using High Performance Computing (HPC) Systems. Southern Illinois University's Office of Information Technology (OIT) Research Computing assists our researchers to get on these systems and use them for their ...

Science gateways are identified as an effective way to publish and distribute software for research communities without the burden of learning HPC (High Performance Computer) systems. In the past, researchers were expected to have in-depth knowledge ...

The Parallel Hierarchic Adaptive Stabilized Transient Analysis (PHASTA) software supports modeling compressible or incompressible, laminar or turbulent, steady or unsteady flows in 3D using unstructured grids. PHASTA has been applied to industrial and ...

SimVascular (http://www.simvascular.org) is open source software enabling users to construct image-based, patient-specific anatomic models and perform realistic blood flow simulation useful in disease research, medical device design, and surgical ...

This paper documents the experience improving the performance of a data processing workflow for analysis of the Human Connectome Project's HCP900 data set. It describes how network and compute bottlenecks were discovered and resolved during the course of ...

The Minnesota Supercomputing Institute has implemented Jupyterhub and the Jupyter notebook server as a general-purpose point-of-entry to interactive high performance computing services. This mode of operation runs counter to traditional job-oriented HPC ...

We describe the technical effort used to process a voluminous high value human neuroimaging dataset on the Open Science Grid with opportunistic use of idle HPC resources to boost computing capacity more than 5-fold. With minimal software development ...

Large-scale text analysis algorithms are important to many fields as they interrogate reams of textual data to extract evidence, correlations, and trends not readily discoverable by a human reader. Unfortunately, there is often an expertise mismatch ...

Open OnDemand supports Interactive HPC web applications enabling the interactive and distributed environments for Jupyter and RStudio running on an HPC cluster. These web applications provide a simple user-interface for building and submitting the batch ...

Photogrammetry is the process of computationally extracting a three-dimensional surface model from a set of two-dimensional photographs of an object or environment. It is used to build models of everything from terrains to statues to ancient artifacts. ...

Continuous integration, delivery, and deployment (CICD) is widely used in DevOps communities, as it allows for teams of all sizes to deploy rapidly-changing hardware and software resources quickly and confidently. In this paper, we will describe how ...

Software container solutions have revolutionized application development approaches by enabling lightweight platform abstractions within the so-called "containers." Several solutions are being actively developed in attempts to bring the benefits of ...

The NSF funded Neuroscience Gateway (NSG) has been in operation since the early 2013. We originally designed NSG to reduce technical and administrative barriers that exist to using high performance computing resources for computational neuroscientists. ...

There is a shortage of training programs for research cyber-facilitators and the need is only growing, especially in academia. This paper will discuss the importance of developing a workforce at the undergraduate level, creating a formal program for ...