APAC Grid Geosciences Project: Linking Academia, Industry and Government to HPC Robert Woodcock, CSIRO and pmd*CRC Ryan Fraser, IVEC and Curtin 15 March 2005

How Interoperability? The SEE Grid Community Introduction - APAC Grid program AUSTRALIAN PARTNERSHIP FOR ADVANCED COMPUTING “…building a national grid infrastructure integrating the APAC and partner facilities to give Australian researchers seamless access the computational and data resources in these facilities.” APAC Partners ac3ac3 - Australian Centre for Advanced Computing and Communications in NSW ANUANU - The Australian National University CSIRO IVECIVEC - Western Australian Interactive Virtual Environments Centre QPSFQPSF - Queensland Parallel Supercomputing Foundation SAPACSAPAC - South Australian Partnership for Advanced Computing TPACTPAC - University of Tasmania acting as host for the Tasmanian Partnership for Advanced Computing VPACVPAC - Victorian Partnership for Advanced Computing

How Interoperability? The SEE Grid Community Why?... e.g.. decision support… ? a knowledge-base is a prerequisite, but 1. Maps are not enough… 2. If we build it ‘they’ may not come … many decision-makers do not understand geoscientific maps; they require derived products that inform socio-economic conditions: e.g. assessments, resource, vulnerability, risk, integrated many decision-makers do not use maps or assessments, nor know how to; they need decision support tools and scientific engagement :  tools: that use maps and assessments  engagement: to ensure good use CGKN GEON Grid Federal Provincial Territorial Regional Municipal NGO Industrial decision makers bedrock surficial mineral geochemical geochronologic hyrdrogeological Geo-information geophysical knowledge base With acknowledgement to Boyan Brodaric, Geological Survey of Canada

How Interoperability? The SEE Grid Community Decision Support collaboration deliberation consultation Sustainability Water Scarcity Aquifer vulnerability Risk Negotiated Concepts Actors Advisory Committees Council Public Stewardship Groups Boundary Objects Posters, papers Assessment Modeling Visualization With acknowledgement to Boyan Brodaric, Geological Survey of Canada Linking Industry, Government and Academia

How Interoperability? The SEE Grid Community APAC Grid Geoscience Project Objective … to identify and establish the geoscience community specific interoperability “standards” for the APAC Grid network. Via  Community Standards (SEE Grid)  Service Interfaces  Information models  Test bed applications  Computational Services – Mantle Convection  EarthBytes 4D Data Portal  Grid infrastructure  Design Patterns

How Interoperability? The SEE Grid Community APAC Grid Geoscience: Our problem is linking... Conceptual models Databases Modeling codes Mesh generators Visualization packages People High Performance Computers Mass Storage Facilities

How Interoperability? The SEE Grid Community APAC Grid Resources for Geosciences Compaq SC40 NEW system IVEC nil QPSF 128xDual Xeon SAPAC Alphaserver NEW system SRB: 2Tb disk, 5Tb tape ANU 90xDual Xeon, 64xAltix SRB: 5Tb tape mirror CSIRO 152xDual Xeon AC3 90xDual Xeon, SRB VPAC nil TPAC

How Interoperability? The SEE Grid Community Grid Technology Layers

How Interoperability? The SEE Grid Community The Trial Application... Mantle Convection Components Required: Observational Databases  access via SEE Grid Information Services standards Earthbytes 4D Data Portal  Allows users to track observations through geological time and use them as model boundary conditions and/or to validate process simulations. Mantle Convection  solved via Snark on an HPC Modeling Archive  stores the problem description so they can be mined and audited Trial application provided by: D. Müller (Univ. of Sydney) L. Moresi (Monash Univ./MC2/VPAC)

How Interoperability? The SEE Grid Community The Trial Application… Service Interactions Resource Registry Service Registry Results Archive Data Management Portal Job Management Portal HPC Repository Login Job Monitor Run Simulation Edit Problem Description Local Repository Archive Search Geology S.A Geology W.A Rock Prop. N.S.W Rock Prop. W.A Observational Databases Authorisation, Authentication & Audit Job Management Service Snark Service EarthBytes Service User Mantle Convection Application WS-Security, SAML, Shibboleth… ebRIM, OGC Catalog Service… OGC WFS, XMML, Service Profiles… Globus, WS-RF… EarthBytes Profile, GPML, XMML… ebRIM, WSDL, UDDI… Snark Profile, GPML, XMML… Common ComponentGridsphere, JSR 168 Portlets… SRB, ebRIM…

How Interoperability? The SEE Grid Community Summary The APAC Grid Geosciences project seeks  …to identify and establish the geoscience community specific interoperability “standards” for the APAC Grid network  …to demonstrate their use in supporting collaborative research between distributed researchers in different organisations  …to enable Industry, Government and Academia to construct networks of service interactions (for decision support) and utilise the resources of the (APAC) Grid

Thank You CSIRO Exploration and Mining NameRobert Woodcock TitleProjects Manager Phone Webwww.seegrid.csiro.au Contact CSIRO Phone Webwww.csiro.au IVEC NameRyan Fraser TitleSoftware Engineer Phone

How Interoperability? The SEE Grid Community geoscience information resource assessment risk assessment possible scenario scenario analyses preferred scenario policy decision resource assessment modeling risk assessment modeling integrated assessment modeling scenario analysis scenario selection policy making science policy Technology client driven tool box not black box customizable open standards web based Science n D knowledge base assessment methods modeling tools scientific standards Stakeholder Engagement local issues driven regular engagement With acknowledgement to Boyan Brodaric, Geological Survey of Canada Workflow