Authors
Cihan Altinay and Dion Weatherley (Earth Systems Science Computational Centre, The University of Queensland)
Abstract
The Virtual Rock Laboratory is a secure web portal designed to enable users without programming skills to construct and execute DEM simulations from anywhere in the world. The portal covers all steps of the work flow combining interfaces that allow users to create and edit input scripts through dialogues, submit jobs to a supercomputer connected to the grid and browse a simulation journal to access past simulations and monitor active ones. Authorized users need nothing more than a computer with a web browser to use the system and require no programming skills.