But perhaps more interestingly computing portals involve building a web based problem solving environment to link together all the capabilities needed to compute |
run programs and access dynamically status of jobs and computers -- in particular allow a uniform interface to running a given job on one of many backend compute servers |
compile and debug programs |
link diverse data sources with computations run on multiple backend machines |
visualize results |
web-based help systems and collections of related scientific papers |
computational steering i.e. interacting with a job (change parameters) based on dynamic results such as visualized results |
See http://www.osc.edu/~kenf/theGateway/ and http://www-fp.mcs.anl.gov/~gregor/datorr/ |