6th International Workshop in Science Gateways, IWSG 2014
Science gateways are a community-specific set of tools, applications, and data collections that are integrated together via a web portal or a
desktop application, providing access to resources and services of distributed computing infrastructures (DCIs). Science gateways offer the
potential to open the utilisation of DCIs to wider audiences by providing a customised and easy to use user interface to access large
computational and data resources. The complexity of the underlying infrastructure can be completely hidden from the end-users by a
suitably tailored interface. As interest in science gateways has accelerated in the past few years, an increasing number of new user
communities can utilise grid or cloud computing resources in a convenient manner.
The workshop aims to bring together researchers and scientists from different scientific domains, along with science gateways developers,
to discuss problems and solutions in the area, to identify new issues, to shape future directions for research, foster the exchange of ideas,
standards and common requirements and push towards the wider adoption of science gateways in e-Science.
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