Virtual laboratory environment construction by ITBL project

Maesako, Hiroshi*; Suzuki, Yoshio; Aoyagi, Tetsuo; Nakajima, Norihiro

Fujitsu, 55(2), p.109 - 115, 2004/03

ITBL (Information Technology Based Laboratory) project is promoted under the "e-Japan national priority program" by six research institutions. The project aims to construct a virtual laboratory which aid collaborative studies amongst researchers by allowing for sharing of intellectual properties and resources such as supercomputer hardware, software, data, etc. In order to realize this virtual laboratory environment, the Japan Atomic Energy Research Institute is developing an ITBL system infrastructure software system. Some of the highlighted functions offered by the ITBL infrastructure are: authentication for connecting to the supercomputers, parallel and distributed communication, job execution on the connected supercomputers, and formation of communities for aiding communication amongst researchers. In this passage, besides the introduction of the ITBL infrastructure, a brief introduction of the Quantum Bioinformatics and the Numerical Environmental Systems will be given as examples of the applications developed on the ITBL infrastructure.