The Open Gateway Computing Environments (OGCE) project develops, packages, and integrates software to be used to develop science gateways, which are browser and desktop interfaces to the distributed scientific computing infrastructure such as the NSF XSEDE program. The OGCE is funded by the National Science Foundation’s Software Development for Cyberinfrastructure (SDCI) program, part of the Office of Cyberinfrastructure. OGCE software includes tools for developing collaborative Web environments based on the OpenSocial standard; for wrapping science application codes on Grids and Computing Clouds as secure, network accessible services; and supporting complex executions, such as scientific workflows, that require multiple scientific applications to be coordinated.
The OGCE is led by Indiana University but is a partnership that includes both science gateway software developers and end gateway customers, including the UltraScan Science Gateway at the University of Texas Health Sciences Center at San Antonio, the GridChem and ParamChem projects at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications, and the Environmental Data Portal at Purdue University.
OGCE software is free and open source. In order to make this software more sustainable, the team has created two Apache Software Foundation projects: Apache Rave and Apache Airavata.