IN31A:
Innovative Data-Driven Platforms and VREs for Complex Earth, Space, and Environmental Sciences Applications I


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Session ID#: 60642

Session Description:
Achieving research progress in Earth and Space sciences depends on managing huge volumes of data for pre-processing, modeling, analysis and visualization: such requirements routinely stretch systems, service providers and users to their limits. Research platforms need to provide users with innovative services, front-ends and targeted products, that transparently reach across infrastructure and data boundaries. This transition requires moving data processing and analysis away from the user and closer to the data. Virtual Research Environments (VREs) (aka Virtual Laboratories and Science Gateways) support such online collaborative research and can range from small groups of investigators to large international initiatives: they can simply be sharing data or facilitating complex processing workflows on HPC. This session focusses on innovative approaches to managing huge data volumes and complex infrastructure interactions including architectures, workflow systems, provenance, front-ends and services designed to enable large-scale data-driven research products; methods of sharing developments; recognized challenges; and future visions.
Primary Convener:  Christian Page, CERFACS, Climate Modeling and Global Change, Toulouse, France
Conveners:  Rosa Filgueira, University of Edinburgh, EPCC, Edinburgh, EH9, United Kingdom, Iraklis Angelos Klampanos, National Centre for Scientific Research “Demokritos”, Agia Paraskevi, Greece and Sandra Gesing, University of Notre Dame, Center for Research Computing, Notre Dame, IN, United States
Primary Liaison:  Christian Page, CERFACS, Climate Modeling and Global Change, Toulouse, France
Chairs:  Rosa Filgueira, University of Edinburgh, School of Informatics, Edinburgh, EH9, United Kingdom and Sandra Gesing, University of Notre Dame, Center for Research Computing, Notre Dame, IN, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Iraklis Angelos Klampanos, National Centre for Scientific Research “Demokritos”, Agia Paraskevi, Greece
Index Terms:

1902 Community modeling frameworks [INFORMATICS]
1920 Emerging informatics technologies [INFORMATICS]
1936 Interoperability [INFORMATICS]
1998 Workflow [INFORMATICS]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Solving Science Gateway Sustainability as a Community: MyGeoHub.org and OneSciencePlace.org (Invited) (356619)
Michael Zentner and Carol X Song, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, United States
Integrating Models Through Knowledge-Powered Data and Process Composition (Invited) (350676)
Daniel Garijo1, Yolanda Gil1, Kelly M Cobourn2, Ewa Deelman3, Christopher Duffy4, Rafael Ferreira da Silva5, Armen Kemanian6, Craig Knoblock1, Vipin Kumar7, Scott Dale Peckham8, Yao-Yi Chiang9, Deborah Khider1, Ankush Khandelwal10, Jay Pujara11, Varun Ratnakar1, Maria Stoica12, Binh Vu11 and Minh Pham11, (1)University of Southern California, Information Sciences Institute, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (2)Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Department of Forest Resources and Environmental Conservation, Blacksburg, VA, United States, (3)USC Information Sciences Inst., Marina Del Rey, CA, United States, (4)Pennsylvania State University Main Campus, Department of Environmental and Civil Engineering, University Park, United States, (5)University of Southern California, Information Sciences Institute,, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (6)Pennsylvania State University Main Campus, University Park, PA, United States, (7)University of Minnesota Twin Cities, Department of Computer Science/Engineering, Minneapolis, United States, (8)University of Colorado Boulder, INSTAAR, Boulder, United States, (9)University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (10)University of Minnesota Twin Cities, Minneapolis, MN, United States, (11)University of Southern California, Los Angeles, United States, (12)Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research, Boulder, CO, United States
The important role of HPC and data-intensive infrastructure facilities in supporting a diversity of Virtual Research Environments (VREs): working with Climate (Invited) (348427)
Clare Josephine Richards1, Benjamin James Kingston Evans1, Kate Snow1, Chris Allen2, Jingbo Wang1, Kelsey A Druken1, Sean Pringle2, Jon Smillie2 and Matt Nethery1, (1)Australian National University, Canberra, ACT, Australia, (2)Australian National University, Canberra, Australia
Integrated Computing in solid Earth sciences: the case of EPOS Integrated Core Services Distributed Infrastructures (373215)
Valerio Vinciarelli1, Alessandro Spinuso2, Daniele Bailo3, Rossana Paciello3, Jan Michalek4, Keith G Jeffery5 and EPOS-IP ICS-team, (1)EPOS ERIC, Rome, Italy, (2)Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute, De Bilt, Netherlands, (3)Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, Rome, Italy, (4)University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway, (5)Keith Jeffery Consultant, Shrivenham, United Kingdom
Developing Practice-informed, Minimal Overhead Workflows for Large-scale Geoscience Data Management (461857)
Unmil P Karadkar and Johanna Cohoon, University of Texas at Austin, School of Information, Austin, TX, United States
AstroDB-- A Data System for Analytical Data of extraterrestrial samples (433314)
Peng Ji, Lamont -Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, NY, United States, Kerstin Lehnert, Columbia University, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, United States, Cynthia A Evans, NASA Johnson Space Center, Astromaterials Research and Exploration Science Division, Houston, TX, United States and Ryan A Zeigler, NASA Johnson Space Center, Astromaterials Acquisition and Curation Office, Houston, TX, United States

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