GEON IT Advances: Overview

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GEONIT Advances Overview

• Chaitan Baru
• San Diego Supercomputer Center

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IT Approach

• Develop cyberinfrastructure to support the
  day-to-day conduct of science (e-science), not
  just hero computations
• Based on a Web/Grid services-based distributed
  environment
• Work closely with geoscientists to help create
  data sharing frameworks, best practices, and
  useful and usable capabilities and tools
• The two-tier approach
• Use best practices, including commercial tools,
• while developing advanced technology in open
  source, and doing CS research
• Leverage from other intersecting projects

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The GEONgrid

• Grid Systems and Portal Dr. Karan Bhatia

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Other Intersecting Projects

• BIRNBiomedical Informatics Research Network
• Baru, Papadopoulos, Gupta are in BIRN Leadership
  Team
• Leverage technology for portals, BIRN Mediator,
  workflow
• Learn from their release plan/schedule and
  software engineering activity
• SEEKScience Environment for Ecological Knowledge
• Leverage schema registration technology
  (Ludaescher is co-PI)
• Southwest GeoNet
• User their .Net-based services. Provides an
  alternate Web services environment
• DLESEDigital Library for Earth System Education
• Use infrastructure developed for education in
  research applications
• OptIPuter
• Working with NASA GSFC to provide 1Gpbs link to
  UCSD/SIO. GSFC will be node on GEON

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Other Intersecting Projects

• GRASP
• Run Grid benchmark probes along with Inca
  monitoring infrastructure in GEONgrid (Baru is
  PI)
• NMI GRIDS Center
• Developing easy-to-use Grid security
  infrastructure for GEON, BIRN, and UCSD
  Telescience
• TeraGrid
• GEON is a chosen application. In particular,
  hosting data and services related to LiDAR data
• NLADR National Laboratory for Advanced Data
  Research
• Joint activity between SDSC and NCSA
• GEON is a chose application to drive end-to-end
  data scenarios

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Partnerships

• ESRI
• GEON node at Redlands
• Find ESRI resources through GEONsearch
• Publish GEON products in ArcWeb
• IBM
• Working with IBM Almaden on GMR (Grid Movement
  and Replication)
• HP
• Donated a cluster to power GEON portal.
• 9-node system. One node with 24GB memory and 20TB
  disk
• GSC
• Providing WMS server via WestGrid (Vancouver, BC)

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Partnerships

• Geological Survey of Canada
• 1Gbps connection to WMS server in WestGrid
• NASA
• 1Gbps connection to NASA GSFC, SRTM and other
  imagery and LiDAR data
• ESRI
• Grid service wrappers for ArcWeb Services
• Ability to publish GEON products using ArcWeb
  Services
• Chronos, CUAHSI, etc.
• Register resources so that they are searchable
  via GEONsearch

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GEONgrid Software Layers
Portal (login, myGEON)
Registration
GEONsearch
Core Grid Services GT3, OGSA-DAI, GSI, CAS,
gridFTP, SRB, PostGIS, mySQL, DB2
Physical Grid RedHat Linux, ROCKS, Internet, I2,
OptIPuter (planned)

• Data Integration, GEON Workbench, and Scientific
  Workflows Dr. Bertram
  Ludaescher
• GEONsearch, Data Registration demo Dr. Kai Lin

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Ontology Development Workshops

• Workshop format
• Led by GEON PIs
• Involves small group of domain experts from
  community
• Participation by a few IT experts in data
  modeling and knowledge representation
• Igneous Petrology, led by Prof. Krishna Sinha,
  VaTech, 2003
• Seismology, led by Prof. Randy Keller, UT El
  Paso, Feb 24-25, 2004
• Aqueous Geochemistry, led by Dr. William
  Glassley, Livermore Labs, March 2-3, 2004
• Structural Geology, led by Prof. John Oldow,
  Univ. of Idaho, 2004
• Metamorphic Petrology, led by Prof. Maria
  Crawford, Bryn Mawr, under planning
• Chronos and CUAHSI are planning ontology efforts
• Also, on-going ontology work in SCEC

• Collaborative Knowledge Management Prof. Mark
  Gahegan