| 1 | But perhaps more interestingly computing portals involve building a web based problem solving environment to link together all the capabilities needed to compute |
| 2 | run programs and access dynamically status of jobs and computers -- in particular allow a uniform interface to running a given job on one of many backend compute servers |
| 3 | compile and debug programs |
| 4 | link diverse data sources with computations run on multiple backend machines |
| 5 | visualize results |
| 6 | web-based help systems and collections of related scientific papers |
| 7 | computational steering i.e. interacting with a job (change parameters) based on dynamic results such as visualized results |
| 8 | See http://www.osc.edu/~kenf/theGateway/ and http://www-fp.mcs.anl.gov/~gregor/datorr/ |