A Virtual Research Community for Synergistic Computing in Chemistry Molecular and Materials Science and Technologies
Authors
Antonio Laganà
Alessandro Costantini
Abstract
The present paper outlines the planning lines of the EGI CMMST Virtual Team (VT) project aimed at investigating services and organisational possibilites for the creation of a sustainable Virtual Research Community of the Chemistry, Molecular & Materials Science and Technology computational community. The paper examines the usual ways of accessing compute facilities and how the distributed computing model (as well as its evolution towards a strongly collaborative environment bridging high throughput and high performance computing) meets the needs of the CMMST community. Finally a road map for the implementation of Quality criteria and the establishing of a credit system allowing the rewarding of members’ contributions to the progress of the community is proposed.
