title: WEDS: a Web services-based environment for distributed simulation.
abstract: Web services have the potential to radically enhance the ability of researchers to make use of distributed computing resources, but jargon and a plethora of standards make their use almost impossible for the scientist without prior experience of the necessary technologies. A powerful and simple WSRF-based middleware scheme is presented, designed to let scientists remotely deploy single or multiple instances of a pre-existing code across multiple resources, and giving steering, visualization and workflow functionality with only simple modifications to program code. It is hoped that the development and implementation of such a toolkit will be relevant not only to the problem of deploying workstation-class codes in real time, but also the move towards more tractable alternatives to the Globus toolkit for deployment of processes in a high-performance computing environment.
authors.affiliation: Centre for Computational Science, Department of Chemistry, University College London, Christopher Ingold Laboratories, London, UK. p.v.coveney@ucl.ac.uk
authors.forename: Peter V
authors.initials: PV
authors.lastname: Coveney
authors.forename: Jamie
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Vicary
authors.forename: Jonathan
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Chin
authors.forename: Matt
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Harvey
mesh_terms: D003198:Computer Simulation; D048088:Informatics / Q000379:methods*; D020407:Internet; D008432:Mathematical Computing; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D012107:Research Design; D012586:Science / Q000379:methods*; D012984:Software; D018511:Systems Integration; D014481:United States; D014584:User-Computer Interface