A lightweight supercomputing Web portal for inferring phylogenetic trees

Author

Johnson, David ; Meade, Andrew ; Alexandrov, Vassil N.

Author_Institution

Sch. of Biol. Sci., Univ. of Reading, Reading, UK

fYear

2009

fDate

9-11 Dec. 2009

Firstpage

92

Lastpage

95

Abstract

In this paper we describe a lightweight Web portal developed for running computational jobs on a IBM JS21 Bladecenter cluster, ThamesBlue, for inferring and analyzing evolutionary histories. We first discuss the need for leveraging HPC as a enabler for molecular phylogenetics research. We go on to describe how the portal is designed to interface with existing open-source software that is typical of a HPC resource configuration, and how by design this portal is generic enough to be portable to other similarly configured compute clusters, and for other applications.

Keywords

biology computing; genetics; mainframes; pattern clustering; portals; public domain software; HPC resource configuration; IBM JS21 Bladecenter cluster; ThamesBlue; lightweight supercomputing Web portal; molecular phylogenetics research; open-source software; phylogenetic trees; Application software; Biology computing; Computer interfaces; Data analysis; Graphical user interfaces; High performance computing; History; Open source software; Phylogeny; Portals;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

E-Science Workshops, 2009 5th IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Oxford

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-5946-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ESCIW.2009.5407990

Filename

5407990