1. CYBERINFRASTRUCTURE FOR THE GEOSCIENCES www.geongrid.org GEON IT Advances: Overview Chaitan Baru San Diego Supercomputer Center

2. CYBERINFRASTRUCTURE FOR THE GEOSCIENCES www.geongrid.org IT Approach Develop cyberinfrastructure to support the “day-to-day” conduct of science (e-science), not just “hero” computations –Based on a Web/Grid services-based distributed environment Work closely with geoscientists to help create data sharing frameworks, best practices, and useful and usable capabilities and tools The “two-tier” approach –Use best practices, including commercial tools, –while developing advanced technology in open source, and doing CS research Leverage from other intersecting projects

3. CYBERINFRASTRUCTURE FOR THE GEOSCIENCES www.geongrid.org The GEONgrid PoP + Compute 1TF cluster Livermore PoP + Data Partner services USGS Geological Survey of Canada KGS Partner Projects Chronos CUAHSI SCEC Grid Systems and Portal – Dr. Karan Bhatia PoP node ESRI

4. CYBERINFRASTRUCTURE FOR THE GEOSCIENCES www.geongrid.org Other Intersecting Projects BIRN—Biomedical Informatics Research Network –Baru, Papadopoulos, Gupta are in BIRN Leadership Team –Leverage technology for portals, BIRN Mediator, workflow –Learn from their release plan/schedule and software engineering activity SEEK—Science Environment for Ecological Knowledge –Leverage schema registration technology (Ludaescher is co-PI) Southwest GeoNet –User their.Net-based services. Provides an alternate Web services environment DLESE—Digital Library for Earth System Education –Use infrastructure developed for education in research applications OptIPuter –Working with NASA GSFC to provide 1Gpbs link to UCSD/SIO. GSFC will be node on GEON

5. CYBERINFRASTRUCTURE FOR THE GEOSCIENCES www.geongrid.org Other Intersecting Projects… GRASP –Run Grid benchmark probes along with Inca monitoring infrastructure in GEONgrid (Baru is PI) NMI GRIDS Center –Developing easy-to-use Grid security infrastructure for GEON, BIRN, and UCSD Telescience TeraGrid –GEON is a chosen application. In particular, hosting data and services related to LiDAR data NLADR – National Laboratory for Advanced Data Research –Joint activity between SDSC and NCSA –GEON is a chose application to drive end-to-end data scenarios

6. CYBERINFRASTRUCTURE FOR THE GEOSCIENCES www.geongrid.org Partnerships ESRI –GEON node at Redlands –Find ESRI resources through GEONsearch –Publish GEON products in ArcWeb IBM –Working with IBM Almaden on GMR (Grid Movement and Replication) HP –Donated a cluster to power GEON portal. –9-node system. One node with 24GB memory and 20TB disk GSC –Providing WMS server via WestGrid (Vancouver, BC)

7. CYBERINFRASTRUCTURE FOR THE GEOSCIENCES www.geongrid.org Partnerships Geological Survey of Canada –1Gbps connection to WMS server in WestGrid NASA –1Gbps connection to NASA GSFC, SRTM and other imagery and LiDAR data ESRI –Grid service wrappers for ArcWeb Services –Ability to publish GEON “products” using ArcWeb Services Chronos, CUAHSI, etc. –Register resources so that they are searchable via GEONsearch

8. CYBERINFRASTRUCTURE FOR THE GEOSCIENCES www.geongrid.org GEONgrid Software Layers Core Grid Services GT3, OGSA-DAI, GSI, CAS, gridFTP, SRB, PostGIS, mySQL, DB2 Portal (login, myGEON) Physical Grid RedHat Linux, ROCKS, Internet, I2, OptIPuter (planned) Registration Services Data Integration Services Indexing Services Workflow Services Visualization & Mapping Services RegistrationGEONsearch Data Integration, GEON Workbench, and Scientific Workflows – Dr. Bertram Ludaescher GEONsearch, Data Registration demo – Dr. Kai Lin GEONworkbench Community Modeling Environment

9. CYBERINFRASTRUCTURE FOR THE GEOSCIENCES www.geongrid.org Ontology Development Workshops Workshop format –Led by GEON PI’s –Involves small group of domain experts from community –Participation by a few IT experts in data modeling and knowledge representation Igneous Petrology, led by Prof. Krishna Sinha, VaTech, 2003 Seismology, led by Prof. Randy Keller, UT El Paso, Feb 24-25, 2004 Aqueous Geochemistry, led by Dr. William Glassley, Livermore Labs, March 2-3, 2004 Structural Geology, led by Prof. John Oldow, Univ. of Idaho, 2004 Metamorphic Petrology, led by Prof. Maria Crawford, Bryn Mawr, under planning Chronos and CUAHSI are planning ontology efforts Also, on-going ontology work in SCEC Collaborative Knowledge Management – Prof. Mark Gahegan