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Table 17.1 External community gateways supported by the SCI-BUS project
Gateway name User community and application area Type of gateway — WS-PGRADE/gUSE technology utilized

agINFRA WS-
PGRADE/gUSE
gateway

Agricultural research and information management
communities, agINFRA FP7 European project ( http://
aginfra.eu/ )

Application-specic gateway using the Remote API from
existing Drupal portals

VERCE science
gateway

VERCE FP7 European project, Virtual Earthquake and
seismology Research Community in Europe e - science
environment ( http://www.verce.eu/ )

Application-speci c gateway using the ASM API from
newly developed custom user interfaces and heavily relying
on the multi- DCI capabilities of the DCI Bridge

DRIHM science
gateway

DRIHM FP7 European project, Distributed Research
Infrastructure for Hydro-Meteorology ( http://www.drihm.eu/ )

Application-speci c gateway using the ASM API from
newly developed custom user interfaces and heavily relying
on the multi- DCI capabilities of the DCI Bridge

CloudSME gateways CloudSME FP7 European project, simulation applications

for manufacturing and engineering SMEs ( http://cloudsme.
eu/ )

A set of application-specic gateways using both the ASM
and the Remote API based on the actual use-case. Hetero-
geneous cloud infrastructures are used via the CloudBroker
Platform

SHIWA simulation
platform

SHIWA ( https://www.shiwa-workflow.eu/ ) and ER-FLOW
( http://www.erflow.eu/ ) FP7 European projects, interopera-
ble workflow solutions from diverse disciplines

Generic WS-PGRADE/gUSE gateway with direct
connection to the SHIWA workflow repository and
submission service to support the creation and execution of
metaworkflows

QPORT gateway High throughput technologies in life-sciences and bioinfor-

matics analysis, Quantitative Biology Center (QBiC) of the
University of T

Application-specic gateway using the ASM API and
modules from the iPortal for the Swiss proteomics
community ü bingen

University of Ports-
mouth Teaching and
Learning gateway

University teaching in the areas of creative studies, e.g.
animation rendering or video encoding

Application-speci c gateway using the ASM API and local
resources of the university (desktop grid, cluster)

University of
Westminster Desktop
Grid gateway

University teaching in various disciplines, e.g. molecular
modelling and animation rendering

Application-speci c gateway using the ASM API

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