Informatics: Current Research and Future Directions

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InformaticsCurrent Research and Future
Directions

• Chaitan Baru
• Director, Science RD
• San Diego Supercomputer Center
• Calit2

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Outline

• Cyberinfrastructure, Data, and Informatics
• Examples of current and future Cyberinfrastructure
  and Observing Systems Projects
• Next Steps A UCSD Energy Portal

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CYBERINFRASTRUCTUREWhat do we mean?

• Technologies to bring remote resources together

Social aspect bringing multidisciplinary groups
together
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Data, Informatics and Cyberinfrastructure
integration
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Key Informatics Areas

• Portals
• Authenticated, role-based access to cyber
  resources data, tools, models, model outputs,
  collaboration spaces,
• Data Integration
• Search, discover and integrate data from
  heterogeneous information sources (mediation
  and semantic integration)
• Modeling and simulation environments based on
  scientific workflow software
• Users can program and steer computations at a
  higher level of programming abstraction
• Share models (not only data), and support
  generation and sharing of provenance information
• Geospatial information and Geographic Information
  Systems (GIS)
• Spatial statistics, spatiotemporal data mining
• Visualization of 2D, 2.5D, 3D, 4D data, and
  multidimensional information spaces