What’s the Point II
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”, “Datamining”
NCSA biology Workbench http://biology.ncsa.uiuc.edu was one of first computational portals
Gateway is one of most technically advanced computing portal projects with a specific chemistry instantiation
- Constructs both a “toolkit” and “exemplar template” for building portals
- see http://www.osc.edu/~kenf/theGateway/