Science Gateways: The Long Road to the Birth of an Institute

Presenter Information

Sandra Gesing, University of Notre DameFollow
Nancy Wilkins-Diehr, The University of California, San DiegoFollow
Maytal Dahan, University of Texas at AustinFollow
Katherine Lawrence, University of MichiganFollow
Michael Zentner, Purdue UniversityFollow
Marlon Pierce, Indiana UniversityFollow
Linda Hayden, Elizabeth City State UniversityFollow
Suresh Marru, Indiana UniversityFollow

Location

Hilton Waikoloa Village, Hawaii

Event Website

http://www.hicss.hawaii.edu

Start Date

1-4-2017

End Date

1-7-2017

Description

Nowadays, research in various disciplines is enhanced via computational methods, cutting-edge technologies and diverse resources including computational infrastructures and instruments. Such infrastructures are often complex and researchers need means to conduct their research in an efficient way without getting distracted with information technology nuances. Science gateways address such demands and offer user interfaces tailored to a specific community. Creators of science gateways face a breadth of topics and manifold challenges, which necessitate close collaboration with the domain specialists but also calling in experts for diverse aspects of a science gateway such as project management, licensing, team composition, sustainability, HPC, visualization, and usability specialists. The Science Gateway Community Institute tackles the challenges around science gateways to support domain specialists and developers via connecting them to diverse experts, offering consultancy as well as providing a software collaborative, which contains ready-to-use science gateway frameworks and science gateway components.