Team:Groningen/modeling cumulus

Cumulus is the Cloud based, modelling and data exchange program that we developed. It purpose is to show as a proof of concept that it is possible to integrate both the exchange of data, the production of comprehensive models, and the sharing of computational resources into one aplication.

To this end we developed a new collaborative Biology Framework based on Service Oriented Architectures (SOA) and on a Web Services. This approach that simplifies and harmonizes the work carried out on the Cloud and Grid platform by geographically dispersed scientists. The new collaborative SOA Cloud Framework (called Cumulus) provides an efficient and easy way to run distributed modelchecking software.

on the Grid distributed versions of scientific codes and it can be easily generalized and incorporated in any Science Gateways by considering the Grid users at the center of the action as a point of generation, integration, control and evaluation of the computational activities.

Accordingly, the basic goal of Cumulus is to provide to its users with a user-friendly tool allowing them to exploit the innovative features of biological simulation with no need for mastering related technicalities. In other words, Cumulus makes application cloud op cloud computing resources simple, and at the same time, leads to better use of once resources.

Below are quick links to look at the different parts of the Cumulus project.

• What exactly did we have in mind when we desinged Cumulus
• Why did we choose to make Cumulus and not go with an existing package
• An overview of the simulation system that is at the core of Cumulus
• Some explanation of the parameter optimization algorithm we use.
• The results we got from working with the cumulus system
• What we want to do in the next version of the cumulus system