EDISON: A Web-Based HPC Simulation Execution Framework for Large-Scale Scientific Computing Software

Computational science and engineering (CSE) researchers usually develop their own technology computeraided design (TCAD) programs, accompanying large-scale computation and I/O on high-performance computing (HPC) resources like clusters or supercomputers. The researchers typically use command-line interface (CLI) such as Terminal to access the HPC resources. But CLI may not be a useful tool to those who conduct research or get educated with the TCAD software, because of their unfamiliarity with executing a series of commands. Thus there has been a strong need on a platform that assists domain-specific scientists to easily share, access, and run TCAD services. To satisfy the need, in this poster we present a novel cyber-environment, called "Education-research Integration through Simulation On the Net" (EDISON), which has been designed and implemented to access and run various TCAD software tools developed in five selected CSE fields over the past four years. The EDISON platform comprises three layers: application portal to browse and run TCAD software, middleware to manage metadata associated with TCAD software and handle online simulation jobs, and infrastructure to support network, storage, and computing resources. In this demo a user will interact with the EDISON platform to perform two representative use-case scenarios: 1) browsing various TCAD tools, selecting one of the tools, controlling with its parameters, and running a simulation job from the tool, and 2) constructing a scientific workflow of selected TCAD tools and executing the workflow. At the end, the user will visualize the completed simulation results.