Novaglobal announces the immediate availability of the A*OnePortal Scientific Gateway Portal designed for easy access to Grid computing infrastructures and High Performance Computing Clusters (HPCC). The next generation portal is generic and is able to host many different scientific applications. The first product launched by Novaglobal is a Computational Chemistry & Biology Suite comprising of Autodock4, AMBER, NWChem, GROMACS and others.

Development on the portal is accomplished using gUSE/WS-PGRADE which is a web-based generic purpose and workflow-oriented framework. The framework helps to accelerate application portlet development and is also able to address complex simulation workflow scenarios.

The A*OnePortal is capable of supporting various Distributed Computing Infrastructures (DCI) including Grids (e.g. gLite, Globus and ARC), desktop Grids, Clouds and HPC (LSF, PBS/Torque). Furthermore, Novaglobal has enhanced the support of the HPC plugins for more features. The Support for Grid Engine would be available soon.

iRODS is a community-driven, open source, data grid software solution. It helps researchers, archivists and others to manage (organize, share, protect, and preserve) large sets of computer files. Collections can range in size from moderate to a hundred million files or more, totaling to petabytes of data.

Major international projects using iRODS include the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA)/ USA; the Ocean Observatories Initiative (OOI)/ USA; the Southern California Earthquake Center (SCEC); the French national high-performance computing center CCIN2P3; the French National Library; the United Kingdom e-Science program; the European Union Sustaining Heritage Access through Multivalent Archiving (SHAMAN) project; the University of Liverpool; the Australian Research Collaboration Service (ARCS); the Centre for e-Research at King’s College London (CeRch) and the High Energy Accelerator Research Organization in Japan (KEK).

NovaGlobal has the honor of commissioning one of the very first iRODS systems in this region for a local university to support their researchers in protecting, preserving and archiving their large research data set.