A New Collaborative and Cloud Based Simulation as a Service Platform: Towards a Multidisciplinary Research Simulation Support

Nowadays, the simulation becomes an essential part of the scientific findings validation and experimentation. It becomes crucial to researchers to launch simulations in order to evaluate and test their models and algorithms on computer platforms. However, research dissemination methods suffer from a major lack as they do not allow publishing simulation code and scripts along with the published papers. Furthermore, conventional simulation software solutions have solely been designed to allow online and crowd testing of simulation codes and scripts. This paper demonstrates our on-going development project of a Simulation as a Service platform called "RunMyCode". RunMyCode enables scientists to openly share the underlying code and data within their research publications. Moreover, relying on the powerful parallel processing feature of the grid-based platform, scientists can launch effortlessly and simultaneously a collection of simulations codes and scripts using the same set of input data and the same - or different - running environments. The outputs of these simulations are then and displayed in the same view enabling the user to compare the functional and non-functional performance of the different selected simulation codes.