Cactus Portal

Cactus Portal: High-Performance Parallel Scientific Applications

Production Portal: http://portal.cct.lsu.edu (guest/guest)
Code Availablity: CVS

Paper from APAC'05 available under: www.vpac.org/ocs/viewabstract.php?id=20&cf=3

The Cactus Portal evolved out of demands in the numerical relativity community where often large computational resources are required for the modeling of the complicated Einstein's equations. These numerical simulations can produce data sets in the order of terabytes and use thousands of processors, making them an ideal use-case for grid computing since traditional HPC centers may not be able to meet these requirements or a scientist may not have access to individual resources that can satisfy his needs.

Current Features:

• Tracking of simulations progress, including notification via e-mail, sms, and IM
• Steering of simulation parameters, including pausing and terminating
• Archiving and sharing of parameter files from simulations
• Mangement of user/group parameter files, including dowloading, editing, comparing

Note: the tracking features of the Cactus Portal can easily be adapted for other projects. This has been done for the SCOOP Portal as well as for Triana