lessons from seegrid/auscope grid bruce simons geoscience victoria
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Lessons from SEEGrid/AuScope Grid
Bruce SimonsGeoScience Victoria
Why Grids?
Sustainable management of mineral, energy, environmental resources
Easy access to large volumes of geoscientific data
Visualise in 2D, 3D, 4D environments
Generic Grid technologies only provide part of the solution
Also requires community specified open standards and interfaces
Just what is a ‘GRID’
• GRIDs are persistent environments that enable software applications to integrate in real time instruments, displays, computational and information resources that are managed by diverse organizations in locations that are globally distributed
• The GRID is an infrastructure that will make access to computing power, scientific data repositories and experimental facilities as easy as the current web makes access to information
• The GRID is built on the existing Internet and World Wide Web
Lesley Wyborn, Geoscience Australia, SEEGrid 1, 2003
Connectivity Presentation
Web pages
Programmability
Web services
TCP/IP
HTMLXML/JAVA
Historical Internet Usage
Source:http//www.dstc.edu.au
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Evolution of the Web
SEEGrid
Solid Earth and Environment Grid• SEEGrid 1 July 2003• SEEGrid 2 March 2005• SEEGrid 3 November 2006
All the proceedings at:https://www.seegrid.csiro.au/twiki/bin/view/Main/WebHome
• SEEGrid Roadshow 2005– Showcasing Interoperability of Government Geoscience
(Geochemistry) Data to the Australian Minerals Industry
Lessons from SEEGrid I, II, III
I. CommunitiesThe way forward is to collaborate globally to get the content and technical standards stabilised
II. CommunitiesRight now we need the barriers between competition and collaboration to move forever in favour of collaboration
III. CommunitiesThe competitive funding paradigm has meant that people do not know how to cooperate let alone be inclusive
AuScope
• National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy
• Australian Government ~$500M committed for FY06-FY11
• 15 “Capability Areas” identified + one ICT Infrastructure (AuScope Grid)
• The research communities in each capability area were asked to work with an appointed facilitator to develop a single Investment Plan
NCRIS Principles– “Major infrastructure …should serve the research and innovation
system broadly, not just the host / funded institutions”– “…….seek to enable the fuller participation of Australian researchers
in the international research system”
AuScope – a system for earth science
Toys Trauma Thrills Treasure
Toys: Earth Imaging Transects Program
Toys: GPS, Geodesy
Toys: Earth Composition & Evolution• Geochemical Instruments
© CSIRO 2003
Toys: Virtual Core Library
Spectrometer
Telescope
Robotic x/y table
Linescan cameraControl
computer
Cooler
Profilometer
ASD spectrometer
Controllingcomputer
Robotic x-y table
Telescope
Chip tray
Quartz halogen lamps
Fibre optic cable
Chip tray carrier
Thrills: Simulation and modeling
Data Structures
Proprietary Software
Versions of Software
Client
Trauma: Data is not standardised
Community Standards
Client
A solution: Auscope Grid – access and interoperability for data services
Agreement can be achieved…GeoSciML international data transfer standard
GeoSciML Team, Uppsala, Sweden, July 2008
Australia, USA, Japan, UK, France, Canada, Sweden, Italy
Creating your own models• Interoperable communities have a community standard data model
eg GeoSciML• In a serialized form (file format) this is used for data transfer
i.e. ‘standard exchange format’– In general this is different from the storage format
• How big is your interoperable community?– Your work group?– Your organization?– Your discipline …?
• The bigger the community, the bigger the pool of resources for software development …
…but the smaller degree of semantic overlap.• Understand the scope and reach of your community
• Only maintain the elements that are:a. important to youb. not governed by someone else
Thankyou
For more information:
SEEGrid: www.seegrid.csiro.au/ AuScope: www.auscope.org.au/GeoSciML: www.geosciml.orgOneGeology: www.onegeology.orgCGI: www.cgi-iugs.org/