A service-oriented framework for running quantum mechanical simulations of material properties in a grid environment

IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics Part C: Applications and Reviews

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 485-490

  Yang, Xiaoyu ^a,b   Bruin, Richard P ^c   Dove, Martin T ^a   Walkingshaw, Andrew ^a   Mortimer Jones, Thomas V ^d   Sinclair, Richard ^e   Wilson, Dan J ^f   Milman, Victor ^g   Donovan, Tim ^h  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^c Knowledge Integration Ltd   (United Kingdom)

^d DARESBURY LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

^e RUTHERFORD APPLETON LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

^f GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^g Accelrys Limited UK   (United Kingdom)

^h IBM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

e Science; Grid computing; service oriented architecture (SOA); software framework; Web service; workflow

Indexed keywords

CLASS LIBRARIES; CONFIGURATION FILES; E-SCIENCE; EQUATION OF STATE; GRID ENVIRONMENTS; GRID RESOURCE; HUMAN INTERACTIONS; MATERIAL PROPERTY; QUANTUM MECHANICAL SIMULATIONS; SCHEMAS; SERVICE ORIENTED; SERVICE SPECIFICATIONS; SOFTWARE FRAMEWORKS; TEST CASE; WEB SERVICE WORKFLOW; WORK-FLOW SYSTEMS;

APPLICATION PROGRAMMING INTERFACES (API); COMPUTER SOFTWARE; EQUATIONS OF STATE; GRID COMPUTING; INFORMATION SERVICES; MANAGEMENT; MATERIALS PROPERTIES; MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; QUANTUM THEORY;

WEB SERVICES;

EID: 77953689108     PISSN: 10946977     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSMCC.2010.2040826     Document Type: Article

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