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