Training and Workforce Development Through ScienceGateways: SEAGrid Use Case

SEAGrid Science gateway is an infrastructure for computational science and engineering research and education primarily. It integrates computational chemistry application software and computational hardware resources and provides end to end environments with pre- and post- processing tools in a community oriented fashion. The environments are provided as web browser based interfaces and desktop clients where the former provides file upload and downloads required for computations while the latter provides molecular editors and graphical application input generation interfaces and output parsers to extract output components for visualization. The infrastructure is extensible such that other open tools can be integrated tightly or loosely. Such tools have been used in the classrooms for project oriented computational chemistry topics at undergraduate level. Here we discuss recent use of SEAGrid infrastructure for training and workforce development for computational chemistry, focused at Minority serving institutions.