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                    Airavata Software Platform
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                <h2 class="theme-h2-header">Community Driven Science Gateways</h2>
                <p>Airavata client agents installed in user’s local environments and lab/departmental servers connected
                    to single grid of computational resources creates a infrastructure ecosystem enabling community
                    driven science gateways.</p>
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                <div class="theme-h2-header">Manage Scientific Research with Airavata</div>
                <h2 class="theme-h2-sub-header">create tenants on science gateway and run experiments.</h2>
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                <p>Computations start at local client machines gradually scale to gateway level
                    computational Resources.
                    Science gateway agents at user PCs, laptops and lab server machines facilitate
                    connecting the
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                    grid of computational resources.</p>

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            <h2 class="theme-h2-header">Middleware Layer for </br>Scientific Gateway Developers</h2>
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            <div class="theme-h2-sub-header">What types of jobs are supported</div>
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            <p>Apache airavata mainly support grid-based application execution at the moment. But
                airavata
                architecture is extensible so that a developer can write custom job submission tasks if
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                submit the job to cloud-based application or any other remote cluster.</p>
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