A lightweight supercomputing web portal for inferring phylogenetic trees

Johnson, D., Meade, A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7095-7711 and Alexandrov, V. N. (2009) A lightweight supercomputing web portal for inferring phylogenetic trees. In: 5th IEEE International Conference on e-Science Workshops, 2009-01-01, Oxford, UK.

Abstract/Summary

In this paper we describe a lightweight Web portal developed for running computational jobs on a IBM JS21 Bladecenter cluster, ThamesBlue, for inferring and analyzing evolutionary histories. We first discuss the need for leveraging HPC as a enabler for molecular phylogenetics research. We go on to describe how the portal is designed to interface with existing open-source software that is typical of a HPC resource configuration, and how by design this portal is generic enough to be portable to other similarly configured compute clusters, and for other applications.