UrFU Scientists Create a Cloud Service For Mathematical Models

14:53, May 13, 2021

Materials scientists, ecologists, physicists, technologists and other specialists can find use in the platform

A group of researchers from the Ural Federal University has created a cloud service for scientists. Users of the platform are computing experiments, analyze and process data, exchange results, access their personal account from anywhere in the world. The development was supported by the Russian Science Foundation (project No. 19-71-10044). The first patent on the project was registered, an application for the second was filed.

“Our service allows you to download data without installing any special software, open it up to users, visualize the results of calculations,” says Ilya Starodumov, a researcher at the Laboratory of Multidimensional Mathematical Modeling of the UrFU. - Now we have a large pool of models that were previously developed analytical solutions. Working with such models is possible without the use of supercomputers, almost in real time. Therefore, we decided to combine these models on one platform and using the virtualization services of UrFU, providing an opportunity to conduct research through a convenient web interface on a free basis. "

Today, with the help of loaded physical and mathematical models, it is possible to reproduce the dynamics of crystallization at the micro- and meso-levels for various materials. These models are in demand among material scientists, glaciologists, theoretical physicists and experimenters. However, the list of models will continue to grow in other respects as well.

“The tasks can be about crystal growth, slow or high-speed solidification, and much more,” explains the head of the grant, Irina Nizovtseva. - The first stage of development of our platform has been completed: deploy a service with a basic set of tasks, methods of solutions and visualization, the boundaries of user access rights are distributed, the system works stably. Now we are moving on to working with the expansion of functions and libraries, provide the user with the ability to load new tasks and a pleasant interface. In the future, there is a task for applications for IOS and Android to improve the convenience of researchers working with scientific and computing services. "