It shares and reuses application code but uses software technologies like service oriented architectures that facilitate sharing business logic among multiple applications.
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A Grid Paradigm for e-Science Applications
Livia Torterolo (University of Genoa, Italy), Luca Corradi (University of Genoa, Italy), Barbara Canesi (University of Genoa, Italy), Marco Fato (University of Genoa, Italy), Roberto Barbera (University of Catania and INFN Catania, Italy), Salvatore Scifo (Consorzio Cometa of Catania, Italy), and Antonio Calanducci (INFN-Catania, Italy)
Copyright: © 2009
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DOI: 10.4018/978-1-60566-374-6.ch031
Abstract
This chapter describes a Grid oriented platform -the Bio Med Portal- as a new tool to promote collaboration and cooperation among scientists and healthcare research groups, enabling the remote use of resources integrated in complex software platform services forming a virtual laboratory. In fact, nowadays many biomedicine studies are dealing with large, distributed, and heterogeneous repositories as well as with computationally demanding analyses, and complex integration techniques are more often required to handle this complexity. The Bio Med Portal is designed to host several medical services and it is able to deploy several analysis algorithms. The scope of this chapter is both to present a Grid application with its own medical use case and to emphasize the benefit that a new Design Paradigm based on Grid could provide to research groups spread in geographically distributed sites.