Through streamlined, online, user-friendly interfaces, gateways combine a variety of cyberinfrastructure (CI) components in support of a community-specific set of tools, applications, and data collections.
:[1] In general, these specialized, shared resources are integrated as a Web portal, mobile app, or a suite of applications.
[2] Through science gateways, broad communities of researchers can access diverse resources which can save both time and money for themselves and their institutions.
[3] As listed below, functions and resources offered by science gateways include shared equipment and instruments, computational services, advanced software applications, collaboration capabilities, data repositories, and networks.
TeraGrid (now continued under the auspices of the Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment, or XSEDE) brought together a diverse community of software developers, who were otherwise isolated from each other by disparate fields of application.