XSEDE Gateways on the other hand are simple, normally web-based front ends to the XSEDE computers for specific areas of interest. They lower the barrier to getting started utilizing super computers in research, and are a great educational tool also.
List of current XSEDE Gateways.
One might want to use a gateway for the following reasons:
- Not comfortable with using super computers at the command line
- Don't need the power of a huge system but need more than their laptop
- Are looking for an easy to introduce new users to an area of simulation
- Undergraduate work supplementing course material
A snapshot of some portals (over 30 at this writing):
| The iPlant Collaborative Agave API | Integrative Biology and Neuroscience | Visit Portal |
| VLab - Virtual Laboratory for Earth and Planetary Materials | Materials Research | Visit Portal |
| NIST Digital Repository of Mathematical Formulae | Mathematical Sciences | Visit Portal |
| Integrated database and search engine for systems biology (IntegromeDB) | Molecular Biosciences | Visit Portal |
| ROBETTA: Automated Prediction of Protein Structure and Interactions | Molecular Biosciences | Visit Portal |
| Providing a Neuroscience Gateway | Neuroscience Biology | Visit Portal |
| General Automated Atomic Model Parameterization | Physical Chemistry | Visit Portal |
| SCEC Earthworks Project | Seismology | Visit Portal |
| Asteroseismic Modeling Portal | Stellar Astronomy and Astrophysics | Visit Portal |
| CIPRES Portal for inference of large phylogenetic trees | Systematic and Population Biology | Visit Portal |
| Computational Anatomy | Visualization, Graphics, and Image Processing | Visit Portal |
