Faculty Mentor(s)
Dr. William Polik, Chemistry
Document Type
Poster
Event Date
4-21-2017
Abstract
The compute cloud (Infrastructure as a Service) abstracts computer hardware into virtual machines hosted by companies such as Google and Amazon. Advantages of using the compute cloud include flexible choice or computer architecture, no hardware maintenance, paying only for services used, and better reliability. Significant cost savings can be achieved in many circumstances. The project Server in the Cloud (SITC) was developed to adapt the compute cloud to computational chemistry. SITC is a set of scripts that installs a fully functional computational chemistry webserver to a cloud computer. The webserver is composed of Apache, WebMO, and some combination of computational chemistry engines. A single computational chemistry webserver, however, is not powerful enough to service a realistic number of users. To address this issue, the project Grid in the Cloud (GITC) was developed. GITC is a job scheduler that takes advantage of the cloud environment by spawning new cloud instances to complete jobs.
Recommended Citation
Repository citation: Vance, Nathan, "Computational Chemistry in the Cloud" (2017). 16th Annual Celebration of Undergraduate Research and Creative Performance (2017). Paper 82.
https://digitalcommons.hope.edu/curcp_16/82
April 21, 2017. Copyright © 2017 Hope College, Holland, Michigan.
Comments
This research was supported by the Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation.