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FUNCTIONALITY OF THE VIRTUAL LABORATORY
Global availability is one of the main terms of the
virtual laboratory
functionality. The Web Portal is a natural way to assure access to the
heterogeneous and distributed virtual laboratory environment. The main tasks which
should be performed by such portal are:
- facilitating interface to order the computational tasks and real experiments on the scientific equipment,
- allowing access to the data base with tasks results,
- allowing to contact other VL users who work with similar problems,
- assuring interface to the VL management for administrators and scientific equipment operators,
- allowing access to the publications library which concerns research tasks performed in VL,
- assuring communication between users and servers or equipment administrators.
CURRENT FUNCTIONALITY DEVELOPED IN VLAB PROJECT
- Remote access to the scientific devices
- WWW based user interface - VLAB portal
- User defined Dynamic Measurement Scenarios
- Data Management System (archive, browsing, search)
- Advanced task flow management system
- Support for interactive tasks
- Resource accounting system
- Advanced task scheduling, including human factor
- Sample management system
- Collaboration with GRID environments
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