A national scientific computing environment for the biological sciences

Author

Springer, Gordon K.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci., Missouri Univ., Columbia, MO, USA

Volume

5

fYear

1994

fDate

4-7 Jan. 1994

Firstpage

87

Lastpage

88

Abstract

A framework for developing a computing environment for researchers in the biological sciences which utilizes HPCC resources is described. This framework addresses the need to provide an organized network resource discovery and access capability for the genome researcher on a national scale. In particular, this framework addresses the issues of integrating autonomous computing tools, authenticating both users and the tools being accessed, dynamic and transparent tool location determination, application and network fault tolerance, and scalability. This framework is based, in part, on open-systems concepts and a distributed computing paradigm.<>

Keywords

biology computing; distributed processing; information retrieval systems; information services; open systems; research initiatives; HPCC; High Performance Computing and Communication initiative; access capability; authentication; biological sciences; distributed computing paradigm; genome research; national scientific computing environment; network fault tolerance; open-systems; organized network resource discovery; scalability; transparent tool location;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

System Sciences, 1994. Proceedings of the Twenty-Seventh Hawaii International Conference on

Conference_Location

Wailea, HI, USA

Print_ISBN

0-8186-5090-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/HICSS.1994.323586

Filename

323586