e-AIRS: an Aerospace Research Portal Service on the e-Science Technology

Abstract

The aerospace engineers often require the large amount of computing resources for the simulation of the problems treating very massive and intensive data. And, they also need very large experimental equipments such as subsonic/supersonic wind tunnels. However, most research groups can not fully provide such computational and experimental equipments. In order to overcome this situation, this paper suggests the e-Science Aerospace Integrated Research System(e-AIRS) which exploits the Grid computing technology to establish an integrated and collaborative environment supporting distributed computational simulation and remote experiments. The e-AIRS provides an easy-to-use portal service where computational and experimental services include application design, execution, monitoring, and visualization.