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gives an overview of support activities related to user communities external to the
SCI-BUS project. A generic overview of such activities is provided, followed by
the detailed description of three gateways developed in collaboration with European
projects: the agINFRA Science Gateway for Workflows for agricultural research,
the VERCE Science Gateway for seismology, and the DRIHM Science Gateway
for weather research and forecasting.
17.1 Introduction
Besides developing a core science gateway technology and customization meth-
odology, the other major objective of the SCI-BUS project was to build a large
number of science gateways in diverse disciplines. These gateways not only
demonstrate the applicability of the core technology, but most importantly support
scientists, companies, and citizens in solving complex problems from user friendly
environments on distributed computing infrastructures. Based on the relationship
between the SCI-BUS project and the targeted user community, the developed
gateways fall into three different categories:
1. Gateways for core SCI-BUS partners: Representatives and technical experts
of these user communities were partners in the SCI-BUS project and were
involved in the work from the very beginning. Part II of this topic describes
several gateways in this category, including the computational neuroscience
gateway, the MosGrid gateway, the statistical seismology science gateway, the
VisIVO gateway, and the heliophysics gateway. Also, in Sect.
3.4
two com-
mercial gateways in this category are introduced, the eDOX Archiver Gateway
and the Build and Test Portal. Four further gateways, the iPortal for the Swiss
proteomics community (Kunszt 2013), the PireGrid Community Commercial
Gateway (
http://gateway.bi
.unizar.es
), the Renderfarm.fi
Blender Community
/
) and the SimBusPro gateway
(
http://simbuspro.com:8080/liferay-portal-6.1.0/
)
complete this list (although
their description is not included in this topic).
2. Gateways for SCI-BUS subcontractors: To extend its user community, the
SCI-BUS project ran an open call that resulted in six further communities
joining the project as subcontractors. The gateway of one of these communities,
the Condensed Matter Physics Community Science gateway, is described in
Forecasting science gateway (Blanco 2013), the Institute of Metal Physics sci-
ence gateway (Gordienko 2013), the Academic Grid Malaysia scienti
Rendering Gateway (
http://www.renderfarm.
c gate-
way (Pek Lee 2013), the SCI BUS Adria science gateway (
http://adria-sci.irb.hr:
8080/liferay-portal-6.1.0/
), and the ChartEx gateway (
http://openml.liacs.nl:
3. Gateways for external user communities: The SCI-BUS project run an
application and user support service that, besides core and subcontracted project
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