CINET: A cyberinfrastructure for network science

Sherif Elmeligy Abdelhamid*, Richard Alo, S. M. Arifuzzaman, Pete Beckman, Md Hasanuzzaman Bhuiyan, Keith Bisset, Edward A. Fox, Geoffrey C. Fox, Kevin Hall, S. M.Shamimul Hasan, Anurodh Joshi, Maleq Khan, Chris J. Kuhlman, Spencer Lee, Jonathan P. Leidig, Hemanth Makkapati, Madhav V. Marathe, Henning S. Mortveit, Judy Qiu, S. S. RaviZalia Shams, Ongard Sirisaengtaksin, Rajesh Subbiah, Samarth Swarup, Nick Trebon, Anil Vullikanti, Zhao Zhao

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Abstract

Networks are an effective abstraction for representing real systems. Consequently, network science is increasingly used in academia and industry to solve problems in many fields. Computations that determine structure properties and dynamical behaviors of networks are useful because they give insights into the characteristics of real systems.We introduce a newly built and deployed cyberinfrastructure for network science (CINET) that performs such computations, with the following features: (i) it offers realistic networks from the literature and various random and deterministic network generators; (ii) it provides many algorithmic modules and measures to study and characterize networks; (iii) it is designed for efficient execution of complex algorithms on distributed high performance computers so that they scale to large networks; and (iv) it is hosted with web interfaces so that those without direct access to high performance computing resources and those who are not computing experts can still reap the system benefits. It is a combination of application design and cyberinfrastructure that makes these features possible. To our knowledge, these capabilities collectively make CINET novel. We describe the system and illustrative use cases, with a focus on the CINET user.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publication2012 IEEE 8th International Conference on E-Science, e-Science 2012
DOIs
StatePublished - 2012
Event2012 IEEE 8th International Conference on E-Science, e-Science 2012 - Chicago, IL, United States
Duration: Oct 8 2012Oct 12 2012

Publication series

Name2012 IEEE 8th International Conference on E-Science, e-Science 2012

Other

Other2012 IEEE 8th International Conference on E-Science, e-Science 2012
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityChicago, IL
Period10/8/1210/12/12

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Computer Science (miscellaneous)

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