WEDS: WSRF Environment for Distributed Simulation
We are pleased to announce the public release of WEDS, a WSRF-based Environment for Distributed Simulation, a powerful and simple middleware scheme designed to let scientists deploy pre-existing application codes across multiple resources primarily within an administrative domain. WEDS is a perl-based lightweight hosting environment designed to provide WSRF-compliant web services in a high performance computing environment.

WEDS is easy to install and use on the client side, requiring little effort on behalf of the user. Visualisation and steering is also possible within the WEDS environment with minimal modification to the application code pertaining to the steerable system parameters.

Currently hosted within the WEDS environment, are the molecular dynamics codes NAMD and LAMMPS and the lattice Boltzmann fluid dynamics code LB2D and LB3D. It is possible for any non-interactive application which can be executed on the target resource to be included within the WEDS environment. Other applications we hope to include in the foreseeable future are DL_MESO. Once an application code has been built on a resource, including the application in the WEDS environment is straightforward.

Download the distribution here. User documentations is available here

Join the mailing list here or submit a support request to weds-support (at) ucl.ac.uk.

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