CSIG 09 Cyberinfrastructure Summer Institute for Geoscientists

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CSIG 09Cyberinfrastructure Summer Institute for
Geoscientists

• August 10-14, 2009
• San Diego

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Welcome and Introductions

• Chaitan Baru
• SDSC

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Institute Format

• Day 1
• Introduction to geoinformatics
  Cyberinfrastructure, Earth Science research, and
  education
• Days 2, 3, 4
• AM Plenary talks on science and related
  technologies
• Different theme each dayEarthScope,
  OpenTopography, Data Integration and Viz
  Framework
• PM Build and Education Tracks
• Day 5
• Round-table discussions, planning for
  collaborations, etc.

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Schedule
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AcknowledgementsCSIG 09 Faculty

• Dr. Lee Allison, Arizona Geological Survey
• Prof. Ramon Arrowsmith, ASU
• Dr. Yehuda Bock, SIO
• Ryan Clark, AZ Geologic Survey
• John Graham, San Diego State U.
• Dr. Deborah Kilb, SIO
• Karen Kirk
• Dr. Chris Miller, Purdue
• Dr. Susan Eriksson, UNAVCO
• Dr. Fabian Walter, SIO

• SDSC
• Ilkay Altintas
• Chris Crosby
• Dr. Sriram Krishnan
• Dr. Kai Lin
• John Moreland
• Dr. David Nadeau
• Viswanath Nandigam
• Margaret Smeekens

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AcknowledgementsGEON Team

• Prof. Ramon Arrowsmith
• Sandeep Chandra, SDSC
• Chris Crosby
• Prof. Ann Gates, UTEP
• Prof. Randy Keller, Oklahoma
• Kai Lin
• John Moreland

• David Nadeau
• Charles Meertens, UNAVCO
• Viswanath Nandigam
• Margaret Smeekens
• Brad Wallet, Oklahoma
• Choonhan Youn, SDSC

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Acknowledgements

• National Science Foundation
• CSIG has been funded each year as a supplement to
  GEON, since 2004
• GEON is funded by the NSF under grant 0722449

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LOGISTICS

• Breakout groups
• Facilities
• Lunch
• Presentations will be put online
• CSIG Dinner, Thursday, Dec 13th, Great Hall

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Introductions
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Cyberinfrastructure

• The cyberinfrastructure initiative is an
  attempt to provide explicit investments in IT for
  science engineering research and education
• From NSFs Cyberinfrastructure Vision for 21st
  Century Discovery, www.nsf.gov/od/oci/ci-v7.pdf,
  July 20, 2006
• The comprehensive infrastructure needed to
  capitalize on dramatic advances in information
  technology has been termed cyberinfrastructure.
• integrates hardware for computing, data and
  networks, digitally-enabled sensors,
  observatories and experimental facilities
• an interoperable suite of software and
  middleware services and tools...
• Investments in interdisciplinary teams and
  cyberinfrastructure professionals with expertise
  in algorithm development, system operations, and
  applications development are also essential
• In 1999, the PITAC released the seminal report
  ITR-Investing in our Future, prompting new and
  complementary NSF investments in CI projects,
  such as the Grid Physics Network (GriPhyN) and
  international Virtual Data Grid Laboratory
  (iVDGL) and the Geosciences Network, known as
  GEON.

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Geoinformatics

• A vision for Geoinformatics, from the NSF
  Workshop on Envisioning a National Geoinformatics
  System for the United States Denver, March 2007
• a future in which someone can sit at a terminal
  and have easy access to vast stores of data of
  almost any kind, with the easy ability to
  visualize, analyze and model those data.

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GeoinformaticsFrom David Lambert, NSF
EAR/GEOPresentation at GEON Annual Meeting, 2005
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A Use Case for GEON

• A user request of the form
• For a given region (i.e. lat/long extent, plus
  depth), return a 3D structural model with
  accompanying physical parameters of density,
  seismic velocities, geochemistry, and geologic
  ages, using a cell size of 10km

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GEON Objectives

• Make data, tools, applications
• and communities
• easily accessible online
• Provide an integration environment for 3D and 4D
  data integration

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Portal-based Science EnvironmentsSupport for
resource sharing and collaborations
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EarthScope Data Portal

• SDSC
• San Diego
• IRIS
• Seattle
• UNAVCO
• Boulder
• ICDP
• Potsdam

portal.earthscope.org
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CUAHSI Hydrologic Information System, HIS
(cuahsi.org/his)

• Data Discovery, Data Access, Data Publication

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GEON Portalportal.geongrid.org

• Generic Capabilities
• Search
• Workbench
• Dynamic map services, map integration
• Applications
• Paleo database integration
• LiDAR data access and data processing
• SYNSEIS Online access to computational modeling
  system
• Gravity and Magnetic database for US

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A Tour of GEON and OpenTopography Portals
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Integrated Cyberinfrastructure System Source
Dr. Deborah Crawford, Chair, NSF CI Working
Committee

• Application Domains
• Geosciences, Engineering,
• Environmental Sciences, Physics,
• Astronomy, Archaeology,
• Neurosciences, Biomedicine,

DevelopmentTools Libraries
Education and Training
Discovery Innovation
Middleware Services
Hardware
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Community Cyberinfrastructure Projects
Friendly Work-Facilitating Portals Authentication
- Authorization Auditing - Resource Discovery -
Workflows - Visualization - Analysis
DevelopmentTools Libraries
Ecological Observatories (NEON)
Biomedical Informatics (BIRN)
High Enegy Physics (GriPhyN)
Ocean Observing (ORION)
Geosciences (GEON)
Earthquake Engineering (NEES)
Middleware Services
Hardware
Source Prof. Mark Ellisman, UC San Diego
Distributed Computing, Instruments and Data
Resources
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GEON Background

• Initiated in 2002 as a 5-year NSF ITR (IT
  Research) project
• Collaboration among 12 PI institutions and number
  of other organizations
• Distributed network of GEON nodes
• Provides a standardized software platform
• Provides a machine outside the local environment
  (for hosting data, software tools, and
  applications for remote access
• Can be centrally administered
• Funded now under the NSF Earth Sciences (EAR)
  Geoinformatics program

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GEON as a Virtual Organization (VO)

• Multiple participants
• Distributed sites
• Participants are from different administrative
  domains
• Policies, rules, systems of the VO may be
  different than those of the participating
  organizations
• ? requires agreement on some basics to enable
  data sharing