An application portal for collaborative coastal modeling

Abstract

SUMMARYWe describe the background, architecture and implementation of a user portal for the SCOOP coastal ocean observing and modeling community. SCOOP is engaged in the real-time prediction of severe weather events, including tropical storms and hurricanes, and provides operational information including wind, storm surge and resulting inundation, which are important for emergency management. The SCOOP portal, built with the GridSphere Framework, currently integrates customized Grid portlet components for data access, job submission, resource management and notification.

Building a Dynamic Data Driven Application System for Hurricane Forecasting

“…-User Interfaces. An integrated, secure, web user interface developed with the GridSphere portal framework builds on existing relevant portlets [4]. New portlets include Threat Level and Notification, Ensemble Monitoring, Ensemble Track Visulization and Resource Status.…”

Special Issue: Workshop on Grid Computing Portals (GCE 2005)

“…It was a half-day workshop, with more than 75 attendees, consisting of oral presentations of the top five ranked papers, and a poster session for all the papers accepted for the workshop. The 'Best Paper' award was given to the top ranked paper, 'An Application Portal for Collaborative Coastal Modeling' by Zhang et al [19]. A second workshop, GCE-06, will be held at SC06 in Tampa [20].…”

“…The papers in this issue are organized as follows: the top five papers are presented first, starting with the highest ranked paper by Zhang et al [19,27,34,32,31]. These are followed by papers addressing development in portal frameworks [24,7,22,21,29] and technologies [30,23], and application portals [28,33].…”

“…These jobs can be massively parallel community models running responding to disaster events [19], running combustion models [28], or analyzing metadata for Geoscience data collections. • Account and credential management: in this area, we find that each portal system tends to present a unique solution adapted to the needs of the particular community and reflects both the choice of portal framework as well as the CI infrastructure.…”

“…• Visualization of results: portal technologies now support 2D and 3D visualization of results and several of the papers at this meeting support this operation [19,34]. The Vlab project uses applets to view results [33].…”