Fast Access to Remote Objects 2.0 A renewed gateway to ENEAGRID distributed computing resources

Angelo Mariano; Giulio D'Amato; Fiorenzo Ambrosino; Giuseppe Aprea; Antonio Colavincenzo; Marco Fina; Agostino Funel; Guido Guarnieri; Filippo Palombi; Samuele Pierattini; Giovanni Ponti; Giuseppe Santomauro; Giovanni Bracco; Silvio Migliori

doi:10.7287/peerj.preprints.2537v1

Fast Access to Remote Objects 2.0 A renewed gateway to ENEAGRID distributed computing resources

Angelo Mariano ¹, Giulio D'Amato², Fiorenzo Ambrosino³, Giuseppe Aprea⁴, Antonio Colavincenzo³, Marco Fina², Agostino Funel³, Guido Guarnieri^3,5, Filippo Palombi⁶, Samuele Pierattini⁷, Giovanni Ponti³, Giuseppe Santomauro⁸, Giovanni Bracco^6,9, Silvio Migliori⁶

1 ICT Division, Technologies for Energy Department, ENEA, Bari, Italy

2 Sysman Progetti & Servizi s.r.l., Rome, Italy

3 ICT Division, Technologies for Energy Department, ENEA, Portici (NA), Italy

4 Sustainable Development and Innovation of the Agro-Industrial System Division, Territorial and Production Systems Sustainability Department, ENEA, Rome, Italy

5 DTE-ICT-HPC, ENEA, Portici, Italy

6 ICT Division, Technologies for Energy Department, ENEA, Rome, Italy

7 ICT Division, Technologies for Energy Department, ENEA, Florence, Italy

8 Consortium GARR, Rome, Italy

9 DTE-ICT-HPC, ENEA, Rome, Italy

DOI: 10.7287/peerj.preprints.2537v1

Published: 2016-10-17
Accepted: 2016-10-17

Subject Areas: Human-Computer Interaction, Computer Networks and Communications, Distributed and Parallel Computing, World Wide Web and Web Science
Keywords: graphical user interface, virtual labs, remote desktop, distributed computing, science gateway

Copyright: © 2017 Mariano et al.
Licence: This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, reproduction and adaptation in any medium and for any purpose provided that it is properly attributed. For attribution, the original author(s), title, publication source (PeerJ Preprints) and either DOI or URL of the article must be cited.

Cite this article: Mariano A, D'Amato G, Ambrosino F, Aprea G, Colavincenzo A, Fina M, Funel A, Guarnieri G, Palombi F, Pierattini S, Ponti G, Santomauro G, Bracco G, Migliori S. 2016. Fast Access to Remote Objects 2.0 A renewed gateway to ENEAGRID distributed computing resources. PeerJ Preprints 5:e2537v1 https://doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.2537v1

Abstract

This paper introduces a renewed gateway to ENEAGRID distributed computing resources, named Fast Access to Remote Objects 2.0 (FARO 2.0). FARO 2.0 is a tool for application and desktop virtualization with a strong focus towards user experience (UX), providing trained as well as untrained users a collection of centralized services that can be seamlessly used on their client through a remote desktop protocol. FARO 2.0 is a JavaFX application whose graphical user interface (GUI) and whose main logics has been implemented through the well- known Web technologies (HTML5, CSS3, Javascript) for a easier maintainability and customizability, taking full advantage of the WebView component. Its framework has been deployed both as general purpose GUI for remote user access to ENEAGRID resources and as specialized application or workflow oriented GUI. They are applied in a set of applicative domains, ranging from material science to technologies for energy and industry, environmental modeling and nuclear fusion. Some examples and results are also presented.

Author Comment

This is a submission to PeerJ Computer Science for review.

Supplemental Information

Source code

raw data including source code of Faro 2.0

DOI: 10.7287/peerj.preprints.2537v1/supp-1

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