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VisIVO Gateway and VisIVO Mobile for the Astrophysics Community

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The availability of large-scale digital surveys offers tremendous opportunities for advancing scientific knowledge in the astrophysics community. Nevertheless, the analysis of these data often requires very powerful computational resources. This chapter focuses on the development issues to design and implement a science gateway and a mobile application tailored for astrophysics needs by customizing the WS-PGRADE/gUSE technologies. The VisIVO Gateway integrates services for processing and visualizing large-scale multidimensional astrophysical datasets on distributed computing infrastructures. The core tools and services supported, employing the gUSE ASM API are presented. The gateway is exploited by a mobile application called VisIVO Mobile, which allows smartphone devices to perform analysis and visual discovery of large-scale astrophysical datasets. The mobile application configures and submits the VisIVO workflows by means of the gUSE remote API.

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    VisIVO Science Gateway url: http://visivo.oact.inaf.it:8080 Cited 4 April 2014.

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    A VBT is a highly efficient data representation realized through a header file (extension. bin.head ) containing all necessary metadata, and a raw data file (extension.bin) storing actual data values.

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  1. Astrophysical Observatory of Catania, National Institute for Astrophysics (INAF), Catania, Italy

    Eva Sciacca, Fabio Vitello, Ugo Becciani, Alessandro Costa & Piero Massimino

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Sciacca, E., Vitello, F., Becciani, U., Costa, A., Massimino, P. (2014). VisIVO Gateway and VisIVO Mobile for the Astrophysics Community. In: Kacsuk, P. (eds) Science Gateways for Distributed Computing Infrastructures. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-11268-8_13

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