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  • Computational Biology
  • Grid Computing
  • Scientific Applications

Background:

  • Large-scale scientific applications increasingly utilize distributed, heterogeneous resources known as Grids.
  • Existing tools like MCell, a computational biology application, have limitations in scale, ease-of-use, and interactivity, hindering critical scientific advances.
  • There is a need for integrated environments that allow seamless access and control of Grid resources for complex simulations.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To develop a scientific "Virtual Instrument" from the MCell application.
  • To enable end-users to transparently access Grid resources for running and interacting with scientific simulations.
  • To overcome the limitations of MCell by providing enhanced scale, ease-of-use, and interactivity.

Main Methods:

  • The Virtual Instrument project integrates an application execution environment with Grid capabilities.
  • The project focuses on enabling users to steer running scientific simulations.
  • Software design, implementation, and evaluation were performed using MCell on a real-world Grid testbed.

Main Results:

  • The Virtual Instrument project successfully provides an integrated execution environment for MCell on Grids.
  • Users can now transparently access and interact with running MCell simulations on distributed resources.
  • Experiments on a real-world Grid testbed verified the design and evaluated its performance.

Conclusions:

  • The Virtual Instrument project effectively transforms MCell into an interactive tool for large-scale computational biology.
  • This approach significantly enhances the usability and scalability of scientific simulations on Grid infrastructures.
  • The developed environment facilitates scientific discovery by enabling dynamic steering of complex simulations.