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GEON: Geosciences Network
Chaitan Baru
Director, Science R&D
San Diego Supercomputer Center
University of California, San Diego
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Integrated Cyberinfrastructure System:
Meeting the needs of multiple communities
Education and Training
Discovery & Innovation
Source: Dr. Deborah Crawford, Chair, NSF CyberInfrastructure Working Group
Applications
• Geosciences
• Environmental Sciences
• Neurosciences
• High Energy Physics …
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E-science
Development
Tools & Libraries
Domain-specific
Cybertools
(software)
Shared
Cybertools
(software)
Middleware Services
Hardware
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Distributed Resources
(computation, storage,
communication, etc.)
Community Cyberinfrastructure Projects
Friendly Work-Facilitating Portals
Authentication - Authorization - Auditing - Workflows - Visualization - Analysis
Ocean Observing (ORION)
Ecological Observatories (NEON)
Earthquake Engineering (NEES)
Geosciences (GEON)
Middleware
Services
Biomedical Informatics (BIRN)
Development
Tools & Libraries
High Enegy Physics (GriPhyN)
Adapted from: Prof. Mark Ellisman, UC San Diego
Your
Specific
Tools
& User
Apps.
Shared
Tools
Science
Domains
Hardware
Distributed Computing, Instruments and Data Resources
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GEON Cyberinfrastructure
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Funded by NSF IT Research program (~$11.5M)
Multi-institution collaboration between IT and
Earth Science researchers
GEON Cyberinfrastructure provides:
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Authenticated access to data and Web services
Registration of data sets, tools, and services with
metadata
Search for data, tools, and services, using ontologies
Scientific workflow environment
Data and map integration capability
Scientific data visualization and GIS mapping
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Key Informatics Areas
• Portals
• Authenticated, role-based access to cyber resources: data, tools, models,
model outputs, collaboration spaces, …
• Data Integration
• Search, discover and integrate data from heterogeneous information
sources (“mediation” and “semantic integration”)
• Modeling and simulation environments based on “scientific
workflow” software
• Users can “program” and steer computations at a higher level of
programming abstraction
• Share models (not only data), and support generation and sharing of
provenance information
• Geospatial information and Geographic Information Systems (GIS)
• Spatial statistics, spatiotemporal data mining
• Visualization of 2D, 2.5D, 3D, 4D data, and multidimensional
information spaces
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GEON Science Projects
• Paleo Integration Project
• Integrated access to paleogeography, paleobiology,
geochronology databases and services
• LiDAR Integration Project
• Development of a national framework for LiDAR data
management. Integration of LiDAR products with other
geophysics datasets.
• Geophysics Integration Project
• Integration of gravity and magnetic data with seismic
modeling programs, for developing models for crustal
structure. Could include geodynamics models.
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LiDAR Workflow
Meeting in August with USGS EROS
Data
Center to make continental-scale
Survey
datasets open to GEON and other user
communities (NEON,
hazards,
…)
R. Haugerud,
U.S.G.S
Process &
Classify
D. Harding, NASA
• Current
implementation
Collaboration
with AIST, Japan on
• 32-way
IBM
multiprocessor,
8TB SAN
ASTER
and
other remote128GB,
sensing
• ~2TB
point cloud data, ~6B rows in database
datasets
Point Cloud
• ~20TB orthophotos
Interpolate/Grid
• Migrating to…
• 16-way Linux cluster, 64-bit Intel processors
• Central warehouse + replicas for failover and
load balancing
• Provide national framework for
• On-demand access & analysis of LiDAR and
other remote sensing data
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Analyze/ Interpret
Point Cloud
x, y, zn, …
Courtesy: Chris Crosby &
Prof. Ramon Arrowsmith, Arizona State
International GEON (iGEON): India
• Collaboration with University of Hyderabad
• Prof. K.V. Subbarao, Professor-in-Charge, Center for Earth and Space
Sciences
• Prof. Arun Agarwal, Professor-in-Charge, Center for Modeling, Simulation, and
Design & Head, Department of Computer Science
• Conducted GEON Cyberinfrastructure Workshop, following
PRAGMA meeting, Oct. 2005, Hyderabad
• iGEON-India recently funded as a Knowledge Networked R&D Center,
by the Indo-US Science and Technology Forum
• Deploy GEON Node at UofHyd and an India-based portal
• Continue GEON Cyberinfrastructure workshops
• Partner with Indian geoscience institutions, including:
• National Geophysical Research Institute, National Remote Sensing Agency, Indian
National Center for Ocean Information Systems, Wadia Institute of Himalayan
Geology, Birbal Sahni Institute of Paleo-Botany
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International GEON (iGEON): Japan
• Collaboration with AIST, Tokyo
• Dr. Satoshi Sekiguchi
• Initiating a GEOGrid in Japan. Inauguration in
early October, 2006
• Will make various remote sensing data available
using GEON technologies, and via GEON
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Opportunities for iGEON-China
• Deploy GEON node in China
• Share data sets from China
• From agencies as well as individual PI’s—by registering
them into GEON
• Use iGEON-China as a way to bring together
activities within China
• Share Geoscience tools and applications
• Make tools and applications developed by Chinese
research community available as Web/Grid services for
remote access
• Share Grid computing resources
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Thanks!
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Data, Informatics and
Cyberinfrastructure
Applications: Medical informatics,
Biosciences, Ecoinformatics,…
Visualization
Data Mining, Simulation Modeling,
Analysis, Data Fusion
Knowledge-Based Integration
Advanced Query Processing
Grid Storage
Filesystems, Database Systems
High speed networking
sensornets
Storage hardware
How do we represent data,
information and knowledge
to the user?
How do we detect trends and
relationships in data?
How do we obtain usable
information from data?
How do we collect, access
and organize data?
How do we configure computer
architectures to optimally support
data-oriented computing?
Networked Storage (SAN)
HPC
How do we combine data, knowledge
and information management with
simulation and modeling?
instruments
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