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Foil 4 What's the Point II

From Distributed Objects and Portals for Earthquake Science GEM Meeting NPAC -- June 24-25 99. by Geoffrey C. Fox
There are a set of services that are either
  • common to most portals such as "yellow-pages", "search data archives", security, collaboration, render XML to HTML for display
  • common to most computing portals such as "visualization", "seamless access to computers", "execute program with particular programming model"
  • specific to particular portal such as "filter SAR data"
One tries to construct "toolkit" and "template" for building portals
NCSA biology Workbench http://biology.ncsa.uiuc.edu was one of first computational portals
Gateway is one of most technically advanced portal toolkits with a specific chemistry instantiation

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