From Lesson Learned to the Refactoring of the DRIHM Science Gateway for Hydro-meteorological Research

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• 作者：Daniele D’Agostino ; Emanuele Danovaro ; Andrea Clematis…
• 关键词：Science gateways ; Hydro ; meteorology ; E ; Infrastructures
• 刊名：Journal of Grid Computing
• 出版年：2016
• 出版时间：December 2016
• 年：2016
• 卷：14
• 期：4
• 页码：575-588
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• 刊物类别：Computer Science
• 刊物主题：Processor Architectures; Management of Computing and Information Systems; User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction;
• 出版者：Springer Netherlands
• ISSN：1572-9184
• 卷排序：14

文摘

A full hydro-meteorological (HM) simulation, from rainfall to impact on urban areas, is a multidisciplinary activity which consists in the execution of a workflow composed by complex and heterogeneous model engines. Moreover an extensive set of configuration parameters have to be selected consistently among the models, otherwise the simulation can fail or produce unreliable results. The DRIHM portal is a Web-based science gateway aiming to support HM researchers in designing, executing and managing HM simulations. The first version of the portal was developed during the DRIHM project using the gUSE science gateway toolkit. The lesson we learned is guiding a refactoring process that, together with a review of the most relevant technologies for the development of a science gateway, represent the focus of this paper. Beside the technological aspects, the need of a strong interplay between ICT and other domain-specific communities clearly emerged, together with coherent policies in the management of data, computational resources and software components that represent the ecosystem of a science gateways.