Science gateway
Science gateways provide access to advanced resources for science and engineering researchers, educators, and students. Through streamlined, online, user-friendly interfaces, gateways combine a variety of cyberinfrastructure (CI) components in support of a community-specific set of tools, applications, and data collections.: In general, these specialized, shared resources are integrated as a Web portal, mobile app, or a suite of applications. Through science gateways, broad communities of researchers can access diverse resources which can save both time and money for themselves and their institutions. As listed below, functions and resources offered by science gateways include shared equipment and instruments, computational services, advanced software applications, collaboration capabilities, data repositories, and networks.
shared equipment and instruments
- telescopes
- sensors
- seismic shake tables
computational services
advanced software applications
- workflows
- analysis tools
- simulation tools
- modeling tools
- visualization tools
collaboration capabilities
- between researchers or educators
- citizen science
data repositories
- sky surveys
- cloud storage
networks
- high-speed
- high-bandwidth