Design and Implementation of Information Management Tools for the EDISON Open Platform

Abstract

We have developed an information management tool for the EDISON (EDucation-research Integration through Simulation On the Net) open platform. EDISON is, at present, a web-based simulation service for education and research in five computational areas, namely, nanophysics, fluid dynamics, chemistry, structural dynamics, and computer aided optimal design. EDISON open platform consists of three tiers: EDISON application framework, EDISON middleware, and EDISON infra resources. It provides web portals for education and research in areas, such as computational fluid dynamics, computational chemistry, computational nanophysics, computational structural dynamics, and computer aided optimal design along with user service.In this paper, the main purpose is to test the normal operation of the release version of EDISON Open-Platform. This management tool has been implemented using the RESTful API designed in EDISON middleware. The focus is to check the operation between the middleware and the infrastructure. Suggest tool include User management, Simulation and Job management and Simulation software (i.e. Solver) test. Finally, it is meaningful to develop a management tool is not support in other web-based online simulation service.