Automatously Sustainable Solution for Big Ocean Science

OceanWorks is a technology integration project funded by the NASA Advanced Information Systems Technology (AIST) Program to establish an Analytics Center Framework for ocean science. As a technology integration and advancement project, the team is chartered to create a coherent architecture to streamline the flow of science data and information, and address resource sharing through services consolidation. The project established the open source Apache Science Data Analytics Platform (SDAP) (https://sdap.apache.org) to develop in the open under an internationally-recognized open source governance process.Apache SDAP is a disruptive technology for the Earth Science research community, because it is a technology for scientists to conduct their researches without having to find and copy massive amount of data to their local computing environment. It hides the complexity of the big data analytic infrastructure such as local computing cluster and the elastic cloud. This AIST-funded open source technology project is now enabling a growing collection of NASA-funded big data analytics projects for domain-specific science needs. It includes the NASA Sea Level Change Portal, Estimating the Circulation and Climate of the Ocean (ECCO) using Cloud Computing and HPC, NASA CMC’s Notebook Analytics: Parallel Climate Model Evaluation, GRACE Science Portal, and others. It is also enabling international efforts such as the NASA-ESA joint Multi-mission Algorithm and Analysis Platform (MAAP), and the CEOS Ocean Variables Enabling Research and Applications for GEO (COVERAGE). This talk discusses the open source Apache SDAP as a disruptive technology solution and introduces the growing portfolio of projects this NASA AIST technology is enabling.