Accessibility and usability are enhanced through the development and use of enabling tools. ORNL, a pioneer in tools development, has staff with the varied skills needed to meet these challenges. We can also provide more powerful simulation tools for problem solving than ever before by providing tools that harness multiple, geographically separate high-performance computers.
Electronic notebooks allow shared record keeping by collaborators regardless of their location.
Software tools allow remote operation of research instruments. Scalapack offers additional mathematical resources. NetSolve enables users to solve complex scientific problem remotely. It supports interactive visualization and remote computational steering of distributed applications by multiple collaborators, and provides a mechanism for constructing fault-tolerant, migrating applications in heterogeneous distributed computing environments. Harness builds on the concept of the Distributed Virtual Machine that was pioneered by our PVM research, but fundamentally recreates this idea and explores dynamic capabilities beyond what PVM can supply.