MAP
Modeling Application Portal
MAP, or Modeling Application Portal, from Tech-X Corporation is a generic Web portal framework for hosting modeling applications and providing access through a Web-based Graphical User Interface (GUI).
MAP alleviates the hassle of assembling the necessary components, compilers and scripting language in order to build an application in the appropriate environment, and lessens the tasks of installation, configuration, buying dedicated hardware, maintenance and software upgrades.
MAP saves significant time through automatic post processing, data analysis, visualization and Web page generation. MAP also adds features like a structured database for input parameters and simulation results, and a collaborative work environment. MAP allows you to implement dynamic generation and publishing of Web pages with text, data and figures with functionality in order to share them with remotely located collaborators.
A secure system, MAP provides identity protection and lets you conduct large-scale model runs. Back-end architectures are typically large SMP servers, clusters or supercomputers, potentially providing parallel processing and large on-demand capacity.
The processes of building and running physical models have some common and repetitive tasks. MAP provides a framework for these tasks by offering a set of common features:
- Input
MAP provides a Web interface for simulation configuration, facilities for uploading input files, and a database mechanism for storing, searching and retrieving previous model runs.
- Output
Output data sets, including raw data dumps, model result files, and graphical visualization objects, are stored in the database along with input files. The user submits a job and is notified by e-mail when it is complete. The user can then logon and retrieve simulation results form the database.
- Processing Power
Processing power can be shared among many users of the same simulation, allowing the parallelization strategy to be tuned for a specific hardware-simulation combination, and larger processing power is efficiently shared among users.
- Model Run Database
As a team creates a body of knowledge from repeated runs of a simulation, results often are lost on file systems of paper printouts. MAP uses a structured database to store all input, configuration and output of a given model run. This information can be searched and returned through structure queries, enhancing and preserving the knowledge created by running a simulation repeatedly.
- Security
Login and data information are access controlled, ensuring data and simulation results are not accessible to others using the simulation. This protects engineering trade secrets, while allowing you to leverage shared resources.
System Components
- Secure user authentication and account management.
- Web interface for job submission, input file verification and construction, visual diagnostics selection.
- Secure data sharing and management.
- PIC simulations scheduling.
- Visual diagnostics generation.
- Steering PIC simulations in serial/parallel and diagnostics generation.
Example Application of MAP
OOPICWeb: Secure Web-based Invocation of Large-Scale Plasma Simulation Codes
Built on OOPIC Pro and MAP, OOPIC Web allows you to focus on physical experiments with large-scale particle-in-cell (PIC) simulations rather than on the installation, configuration, and maintenance of necessary software and optimized hardware.
For additional information or to arrange a walk-through demonstration of the OOPIC Web, please contact sales@txcorp.com.
