Evolving interfaces to impacting technology: the mobile TeraGrid User Portal

The TeraGrid User Portal (TGUP) [1] is a web portal that aggregates and simplifies access to TeraGrid information and services for active TeraGrid users. The purpose of the TGUP is to make using the large number of diverse resources and services of the TeraGrid easier for the national open science community, thus increasing their productivity and the impact of the TeraGrid project. As the portal capabilities have expanded and improved TGUP usage surpassed 300,000 hits a month. To continue increasing the impact and visibility of the TeraGrid project and the TeraGrid User Portal the team developed TGUP Mobile. TGUP Mobile is a lightweight, responsive web application providing a subset of TGUP capabilities via a mobile device. This paper describes the architecture, design, and development of the TGUP Mobile application, and examines the community acceptance and synergy created through the development of both the traditional portal and TGUP Mobile.