1. Joint Techs Workshop, Vancouver, BC, July 19, 2005 Benoît Pirenne, Ass. Director, IT, NEPTUNE Canada Cabled Ocean Observatories The latest on VENUS and NEPTUNE

2. Joint Techs Workshop, Vancouver, BC, July 19, 2005 Benoît Pirenne, Ass. Director, IT, NEPTUNE Canada What is VENUS? Shallow-water test bed for NEPTUNE But more than just engineering (lots of science topics) Easy access (Saanich Inlet and Strait of Georgia) Financed at ~10 MCAD

3. Joint Techs Workshop, Vancouver, BC, July 19, 2005 Benoît Pirenne, Ass. Director, IT, NEPTUNE Canada VENUS Project Status Saanich Inlet wet plant installation end of October Shore station near IOS (in a Navy building!) About 6-7 different types of instruments initially Test bed for HDTV camera Data backhaul 100Mb/s to UVic and CANARIE (as budgeted); seeking DF Strait of Georgia line in 2006

4. Joint Techs Workshop, Vancouver, BC, July 19, 2005 Benoît Pirenne, Ass. Director, IT, NEPTUNE Canada What is NEPTUNE? International Project ~300 MCAD, 30% Canada-70% US, but ∆T ≥ 3 years Interoperability between the two stages NEPTUNE Canada: First of its kind RCO ~5 nodes, 100’s instruments, 24/7 ops, 100kW power, ~8Gb/s, 2500m depth, >25 years lifetime Themes Science: geology (seismic, tsunamis), gas hydrates, climate, biology Engineering: power, lifetime, uninterrupted operation, Internet in the Ocean, data storage & distribution

5. Joint Techs Workshop, Vancouver, BC, July 19, 2005 Benoît Pirenne, Ass. Director, IT, NEPTUNE Canada NEPTUNE Project Status Wet Plant: Selection of main contractor for wet plant completed. Contract being negotiated. Installation in Q2/Q3 ‘07 with a few test instruments Shore station in Port Alberni, BC ~40 MCAD available Instrumentation: Selection of science instrumentation programs on- going Most installed in ‘08 ~7 MCAD available

6. Joint Techs Workshop, Vancouver, BC, July 19, 2005 Benoît Pirenne, Ass. Director, IT, NEPTUNE Canada What is DMAS? DMAS (budget ~7MCAD) has four elements: Instrument access & sensor data archival User data access and retrieval (implementation of observatory data access policy) Instrument control (exploitation of various instrument modes) Observatory monitoring (NOC), resource management (power & bandwidth) ➜ CI for NEPTUNE Canada

7. Joint Techs Workshop, Vancouver, BC, July 19, 2005 Benoît Pirenne, Ass. Director, IT, NEPTUNE Canada DMAS Status Budget Issue: Wet plant funds short due to NRE costs not entirely shared with US partner Savings possibly required from both science instruments and DMAS Trying to compensate for shortfall with responses to call for funding proposals —CANARIE: project on Service Oriented Architecture and workflow management (sensor and archive access through WS, workflow for event management) for DMAS. (With IBM Canada). —CANARIE: project on sub-sea HDTV camera control and data transfer using WS and UCLP. (McGill)

8. Joint Techs Workshop, Vancouver, BC, July 19, 2005 Benoît Pirenne, Ass. Director, IT, NEPTUNE Canada DMAS status Spiral Development: Prototype system with data acquisition, archival, data retrieval completed in February Prototype currently being adapted for VENUS use (DB redesigned) NEPTUNE system will evolve gradually from the prototype and the VENUS experience Preparing accelerated design of the overall NEPTUNE cyber- infrastructure in response to CANARIE call for proposal Instrument Data Acquisition and Control (SOA/Web services) Orchestration for Grid dispatching and decomposition of ocean science work-flows (Kepler, GTK, GridX1) Evolve DMAS into a data grid bus/hub for persistence and real time (RSS) feeds to subscribers

9. Joint Techs Workshop, Vancouver, BC, July 19, 2005 Benoît Pirenne, Ass. Director, IT, NEPTUNE Canada A few Operational Constraints Ops & data center at UVic (not at shore station) Shore station mostly unmanned, remotely monitored Three types of users: Public access to “pre-cooked” products (images, plots, …) General scientist  ccess to quasi-live or historical data through thin (web browser), special-purpose middleware (e.g., MATLAB with web and DB i/f) or fat clients (data analysis packages with WS access) PIs direct access to own instrument for live access, through shore station (bypassing data center) Access security to be guaranteed: military nervous about anyone in a position to access the shore station and wet plant remotely, while they require access to intercept hydrophone stream!

10. Joint Techs Workshop, Vancouver, BC, July 19, 2005 Benoît Pirenne, Ass. Director, IT, NEPTUNE Canada DMAS Conceptual Design Users Privil.Public Observatory Ops NOC Data Center Post- Proc. Shore Station Event detect/ reaction agent Instrument agents Node / extension agents Wet Plant (nodes, ext., instrument s Instrument agents

11. Joint Techs Workshop, Vancouver, BC, July 19, 2005 Benoît Pirenne, Ass. Director, IT, NEPTUNE Canada DMAS Conceptual Design Driver/agen t Pre- processing Publisher Archive Subscrib er Metad ata DB Files Archiv e Real- time Subscrib er Real- time Subscrib er Real- time Subscrib er Publisher Driver/agen t Wareho use DB Streaming Instruments Non-streaming Instruments Archive Access Archive Access Event detection Ins. Monitoring Event detection

12. Joint Techs Workshop, Vancouver, BC, July 19, 2005 Benoît Pirenne, Ass. Director, IT, NEPTUNE Canada VENUS Instruments First Array: (Saanich inlet) 3 types of CTDs (one with Oxygen sensor) ADCP ZAP (vertical and horizontal) 8MPix moveable digital still camera 3-way hydrophone array HDTV camera Scalar Complex Streaming Data in warehouse Meta-data in DB Data in file storage Meta-data in DB

13. Joint Techs Workshop, Vancouver, BC, July 19, 2005 Benoît Pirenne, Ass. Director, IT, NEPTUNE Canada Expected Usage of NEPTUNE/VENUS Some limited direct interaction to take place: Occasional control of move-able instruments: cameras, ROVs Restricted to instrument PI or their team members But humans typically available only 8 hrs/day! Expected long-term use mostly through automated event detection and scripted routine maneuvers: Value checks against hard-coded thresholds or the instrument’s own long-term trends or correlation of multiple instruments outputs Reactions as commands to e.g., turn on cameras and lights when “something” is detected Reactions contingent to other phenomena: e.g., activate water column profiler winch when water current strength small enough Automated extraction from video and audio stream (either live or off- line), populating “content databases” that can subsequently be searched (e.g., instantaneous fish count in still images or video)

14. Joint Techs Workshop, Vancouver, BC, July 19, 2005 Benoît Pirenne, Ass. Director, IT, NEPTUNE Canada Network Issues VENUS “Last Mile” Wet plant capacity will be 1Gb/s. NEPTUNE “Last Mile” Wet plant capacity ~8Gb/s Solutions? VENUS dark fibre shore station access probably covered by a CANARIE grant (waiting for confirmation) NEPTUNE needs to apply to CANARIE for support to get dark fibre

15. Joint Techs Workshop, Vancouver, BC, July 19, 2005 Benoît Pirenne, Ass. Director, IT, NEPTUNE Canada Networking Issues Access security Protect assets: authentication, authorizations US Navy, DND requests: remote access to shore station: re- direction of data flows at specific times

16. Joint Techs Workshop, Vancouver, BC, July 19, 2005 Benoît Pirenne, Ass. Director, IT, NEPTUNE Canada Conclusions VENUS & NEPTUNE development progressing Projects are exciting from a scientific, technological and education/outreach point of view Need to convince science community to change its approach towards doing ocean science: exploit the power! Looking at opportunities to create a very modern cyber-infrastructure