Wednesday, December 16, 2009
Square Kilometre Array project awarded more than $2 million
The Grid Research Centre (GRC) will be a participant in the Cyber-SKA Canada project, recently awarded over $2 million dollars as part of the CANARIE Network Enabled Platforms (NEP2) program. The project, led by Dr. Russ Taylor, head of the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Calgary, will involve development of cyberinfrastructure to process and analyze data that will be gathered by the Square Kilometre Array (SKA). The SKA will be the world's largest radio telescope when completed around 2020. For more details on this project see the following media release by the University of Calgary: http://people.ucalgary.ca/~ria/2009/December2009/ska.html
Friday, November 20, 2009
#SC09 Highlights - Thursday Nov. 19th and Friday Nov. 20th
Another SC has come and gone, and overall I really enjoyed it again this year. It is one of my favorite conferences to attend each year.
In this posting I will provide some highlights for Thursday Nov. 19th and Friday Nov. 20th.
Highlights from previous days of the conference can be found at the below links:
Thursday Nov. 19th, started out with the keynote by Al Gore on climate change. He is a very good speaker. At times he was quite humorous, and at other times he was quite serious. Some quotes from his talk are below:
On Friday November 20th, I attended the Grid Computing Environments (GCE) Workshop.
In the afternoon of the workshop I presented a paper co-authored by Roger Curry, myself and Rob Simmonds entitled "Social Networking and Scientific Gateways". The paper describes different approaches for integrating social networking in scientific gateways, and highlights our experiences using Facebook, Ning and Elgg in developing the GeoChronos scientific gateway. Slides for that presentation are available here. Being the afternoon of the last day I had anticipated not many being in attendance. However, there were still about 40 people in the room which I thought was pretty good. Wireless was still running, even though we were told it was going to be cut off at 12:00, so I was able to give a brief live demonstration of GeoChronos at the end of the presentation.
Overall, the day was full of many excellent papers. I was quite interested by several of the papers that were making use of iGoogle and OpenSocial gadgets. There was also an interesting paper on a TeraGrid user portal designed for mobile phones. A list of the papers I found most interesting is below. Slides for these and other papers from the workshop can be found here.
In this posting I will provide some highlights for Thursday Nov. 19th and Friday Nov. 20th.
Highlights from previous days of the conference can be found at the below links:
Thursday Nov. 19th, started out with the keynote by Al Gore on climate change. He is a very good speaker. At times he was quite humorous, and at other times he was quite serious. Some quotes from his talk are below:
- As much urban habitat will be developed in the next 35 years than has ever been developed.
- In the last 100 years the earth's population has quadrupled from 1.6 billion to 6.8 billion.
- By beginning of next year there will be 1 billion transistors for each of the 6.8 billion people on earth.
- Climate crisis is not a political issue. It is a moral issue.
- > 300 million users
- 200 billion monthly page views
- 1 billion chat messages per day
On Friday November 20th, I attended the Grid Computing Environments (GCE) Workshop.
In the afternoon of the workshop I presented a paper co-authored by Roger Curry, myself and Rob Simmonds entitled "Social Networking and Scientific Gateways". The paper describes different approaches for integrating social networking in scientific gateways, and highlights our experiences using Facebook, Ning and Elgg in developing the GeoChronos scientific gateway. Slides for that presentation are available here. Being the afternoon of the last day I had anticipated not many being in attendance. However, there were still about 40 people in the room which I thought was pretty good. Wireless was still running, even though we were told it was going to be cut off at 12:00, so I was able to give a brief live demonstration of GeoChronos at the end of the presentation.
Overall, the day was full of many excellent papers. I was quite interested by several of the papers that were making use of iGoogle and OpenSocial gadgets. There was also an interesting paper on a TeraGrid user portal designed for mobile phones. A list of the papers I found most interesting is below. Slides for these and other papers from the workshop can be found here.
- Lan Zhao, Shuang Wu, Rakesh Veeramacheneni, Carol Song and Larry Biehl. "Delivering Real-time Satellite Data to a Broader Audience"
- Rion Dooley, Stephen Mock, Praveen Nuthulapati, Patrick Hurley and Maytal Dahan. "Evolving Interfaces to Impacting Technology: The Mobile TeraGrid User Portal"
- Wenjun Wu, Thomas Uram and Michael E. Papka. "Web 2.0 Based Social Informatics Data Grid"
- Zhenhua Guo, Raminderjeet Singh and Marlon Pierce. "Building the PolarGrid Portal Using Web 2.0 and OpenSocial"
Slides from "Social Networking and Scientific Gateways" presentation at #SC09
Presentation I gave as part of the Grid Computing Environments (GCE) Workshop at SC09 in Portland on Nov. 20, 2009. Describes different approaches for integrating social networking in scientific gateways, and highlights our experiences using Facebook, Ning and Elgg in developing the GeoChronos scientific gateway. Paper can be found here.
Social Networking and Scientific Gateways
View more presentations from Cameron Kiddle.
Thursday, November 19, 2009
#SC09 Highlights - Tuesday Nov. 17th and Wednesday Nov. 18th
Well, I missed writing a highlights post yesterday, so I will write one for both yesterday and today.
SC09 continues to go great. A lot of excellent papers, posters, keynotes, exhibits, receptions and so forth.
Tuesday Nov. 17th started out with the opening keynote by Intel CTO Justin Rattner. A very good talk on "The Rise of the 3D Internet Advancements in Collaborative and Immersive Sciences". He posed the question "Is the future of HPC the 3D Web" and responded "The future of HPC is the 3D Web". Gave some excellent demos including ScienceSim, OpenSim, cloth simulation, fluid simulation and more. He finished the presentation off on a very high note by demonstrating Teraflop performance on
a single Larrabee chip!
After that I walked around the exhibit floor for a while. I stopped at the Purdue booth (#2473) and watched a HUBzero demonstration by Michael McLennan. HUBzero is a pretty cool collaborative platform for scientists that enables them to share presentations, papers and other materials and to run software/tools on-line. nanoHUB was the first hub created and now has 90,000 users and 5,000,000 hits per month. Hubs for other disciplines have been created since. I have been following this project for quite a while, and they have progressed quite a bit. It has many similarities to the GeoChronos platform that we are developing at the Grid Research Centre. It is definitely worth checking out. The tool they use to enable easy generation of graphical interfaces for applications mad available on-line, called Rappture, has already been made open source. HUBzero is supposed to be released as open source in Spring 2010. Looking forward to this.
In the afternoon I demonstrated GeoChronos at the Compute Canada - CANARIE booth (#142). GeoChronos is an on-line collaborative environment for earth observation scientists that leverages social networking, cloud computing and the Semantic Web. Slides used as part of the demonstration are available here.
Went to a technical paper session later in the afternoon that had a couple of papers that I was interested in:
I got up early on Wednesday November 18th, to attend the SGI breakfast at the Doubletree hotel. Heard talks from the CEO, CTO as well as someone from E-bay and someone from Intel.
Had to catch up with some other work for the rest of the morning pertaining to a Green IT project called GreenStar Network that the Grid Research Centre is a partner on.
CANARIE just announced the $2 million funded project yesterday: http://bit.ly/4FAWmW
Gave another GeoChronos demonstration at the Compute Canada - CANARIE booth in the afternoon. Had a good chat with the CEO and CTO of GridCentric, a grid/virtualization startup based out of Toronto.
Walked around the exhibit floor for most of the rest of the afternoon, caught up with some people I had met from previous years. If you are looking for some good swag, try the TLCSquared Booth (#1801). Also attended part of an exhibitor forum and a BoF on NEESgrid.
Wrapped up the day with an excellent reception hosted by Mellanox at the Hilton downtown.
Heard from the CEO of Mellanox, Richard Kaufmann from HP and a researcher from ORNL.
Richard Kaufmann was quite the entertaining speaker. Speakers were followed by an excellent buffet dinner. With all the vendor receptions that happen during SC, I have heard it said "If you are paying for dinner, then you are doing something wrong".
Looking forward for the remaining two days of SC09. Will be giving a presentation entitled "Social Networking and Scientific Gateways" on Friday at 1:30p.m. at the Grid Computing Environments (GCE) workshop. The paper highlights our experiences in using Facebook, Ning and Elgg in developing scientific gateways. Come check it out if you haven't already caught your flight home.
SC09 continues to go great. A lot of excellent papers, posters, keynotes, exhibits, receptions and so forth.
Tuesday Nov. 17th started out with the opening keynote by Intel CTO Justin Rattner. A very good talk on "The Rise of the 3D Internet Advancements in Collaborative and Immersive Sciences". He posed the question "Is the future of HPC the 3D Web" and responded "The future of HPC is the 3D Web". Gave some excellent demos including ScienceSim, OpenSim, cloth simulation, fluid simulation and more. He finished the presentation off on a very high note by demonstrating Teraflop performance on
a single Larrabee chip!
After that I walked around the exhibit floor for a while. I stopped at the Purdue booth (#2473) and watched a HUBzero demonstration by Michael McLennan. HUBzero is a pretty cool collaborative platform for scientists that enables them to share presentations, papers and other materials and to run software/tools on-line. nanoHUB was the first hub created and now has 90,000 users and 5,000,000 hits per month. Hubs for other disciplines have been created since. I have been following this project for quite a while, and they have progressed quite a bit. It has many similarities to the GeoChronos platform that we are developing at the Grid Research Centre. It is definitely worth checking out. The tool they use to enable easy generation of graphical interfaces for applications mad available on-line, called Rappture, has already been made open source. HUBzero is supposed to be released as open source in Spring 2010. Looking forward to this.
In the afternoon I demonstrated GeoChronos at the Compute Canada - CANARIE booth (#142). GeoChronos is an on-line collaborative environment for earth observation scientists that leverages social networking, cloud computing and the Semantic Web. Slides used as part of the demonstration are available here.
Went to a technical paper session later in the afternoon that had a couple of papers that I was interested in:
- Improving GridFTP Performance Using The Phoebus Session Layer by E. Kissel et. al
- On the Design of Scalable, Self-Configuring Virtual Networks by D. I. Wolinsky et. al
- Automatic Live Job Migration for HPC Fault Tolerance with Virtualization by Y. L. Pan
- A Policy Based Data Placement Service by M. A. Amer
- Mirroring Earth System Grid Datasets by E. Brady and A. Chervenak
I got up early on Wednesday November 18th, to attend the SGI breakfast at the Doubletree hotel. Heard talks from the CEO, CTO as well as someone from E-bay and someone from Intel.
Had to catch up with some other work for the rest of the morning pertaining to a Green IT project called GreenStar Network that the Grid Research Centre is a partner on.
CANARIE just announced the $2 million funded project yesterday: http://bit.ly/4FAWmW
Gave another GeoChronos demonstration at the Compute Canada - CANARIE booth in the afternoon. Had a good chat with the CEO and CTO of GridCentric, a grid/virtualization startup based out of Toronto.
Walked around the exhibit floor for most of the rest of the afternoon, caught up with some people I had met from previous years. If you are looking for some good swag, try the TLCSquared Booth (#1801). Also attended part of an exhibitor forum and a BoF on NEESgrid.
Wrapped up the day with an excellent reception hosted by Mellanox at the Hilton downtown.
Heard from the CEO of Mellanox, Richard Kaufmann from HP and a researcher from ORNL.
Richard Kaufmann was quite the entertaining speaker. Speakers were followed by an excellent buffet dinner. With all the vendor receptions that happen during SC, I have heard it said "If you are paying for dinner, then you are doing something wrong".
Looking forward for the remaining two days of SC09. Will be giving a presentation entitled "Social Networking and Scientific Gateways" on Friday at 1:30p.m. at the Grid Computing Environments (GCE) workshop. The paper highlights our experiences in using Facebook, Ning and Elgg in developing scientific gateways. Come check it out if you haven't already caught your flight home.
Slides from GeoChronos demonstration at #SC09
Presentation shown as part of the GeoChronos Demonstration at the Compute Canada - CANARIE booth (#142) at SC09 in Portland on Nov. 17th and Nov. 18th, 2009. (Similar to the GeoChronos - CANARIE NEP Showcase Presentation with a few minor revisions.)
GeoChronos - SC09 Demo Presentation
View more presentations from Cameron Kiddle.
Monday, November 16, 2009
#SC09 Highlights - Monday Nov. 16th
Had a good day at SC09 in Portland today. I jumped between three different workshops that were going on today:
Something else that is pretty cool and worth checking out is the Need4Feed site hosted by Purdue University. It is following the #SC09 hashtag on twitter and generating various rankings and statistics.
Tomorrow I will be giving a demonstration of GeoChronos - an on-line collaborative platform for earth observation scientists leveraging social networking, cloud computing and Semantic Web technologies. Come and check it out between 2pm - 3pm at the Compute Canada - CANARIE Booth (#142).
- WORKS09 : The 4th Workshop on Workflows in Support of Large-Scale Science
- MTAGS09 : The 2nd Workshop on Many-Task Computing on Grids and Supercomputers
- Using Clouds for Parallel Computations in Systems Biology
- "Making Infrastructure Invisible" - Dr. Dan Reed, Microsoft Corporate VP for Extreme Computing (MTAGS09 Keynote)
- "Successful technologies are invisible."
- "High value does not imply high utilization. Rapid response is often more important."
- "Robust Workflows for Science & Engineering" - David Abramson et. al (MTAGS09 Invited Paper)
- Talked about Nimrod/K, the workflow engine for the Nimrod Toolkit. It is built on Kepler.
- "Lessons Learned From a Year's Worth of Benchmarks of Large Data Clouds" - Yunhong Gu and Bob Grossman (MTAGS09 Invited Paper)
- Talked about Sector/Sphere - An open source high performance distributed file system and parallel data processing engine. Performance was shown to be significantly better than Hadoop.
- Demos of Sector/Sphere are being given at the National Center for Data Mining (NCDM) Booth (#1309)
- "Cloud Computing for Science" - Kate Keahey (Systems Biology Workshop)
- Talked about Nimbus and Science Clouds
Something else that is pretty cool and worth checking out is the Need4Feed site hosted by Purdue University. It is following the #SC09 hashtag on twitter and generating various rankings and statistics.
Tomorrow I will be giving a demonstration of GeoChronos - an on-line collaborative platform for earth observation scientists leveraging social networking, cloud computing and Semantic Web technologies. Come and check it out between 2pm - 3pm at the Compute Canada - CANARIE Booth (#142).
Friday, November 13, 2009
#SC09 demo schedule for the @GeoChronos scientific gateway (Visit booth 142)
I will be demonstrating the GeoChronos scientific gateway (http://geochronos.org/) at SC09 in Portland. GeoChronos, which is funded as part of the CANARIE Network Enabled Platforms (NEP) program, is an on-line collaborative platform for earth observation scientists that leverages social networking, cloud computing and Semantic Web technologies.
Demonstrations will take place at the Compute Canada - CANARIE booth (#142) at the following times:
Tuesday Nov. 17th: 2pm - 3pm
Wednesday Nov. 18th: 2pm - 3pm
Note that on Friday Nov. 20 at 1:30 p.m. I will be presenting a paper entitled "Social Networking and Scientific Gateways" as part of the Grid Computing Environments (GCE) workshop at SC09. It is a paper co-authored by Roger Curry, myself and Rob Simmonds that compares several approaches for integrating social networking into scientific gateways. It highlights our experience using Facebook, Ning and Elgg in the development of GeoChronos.
Demonstrations will take place at the Compute Canada - CANARIE booth (#142) at the following times:
Tuesday Nov. 17th: 2pm - 3pm
Wednesday Nov. 18th: 2pm - 3pm
Note that on Friday Nov. 20 at 1:30 p.m. I will be presenting a paper entitled "Social Networking and Scientific Gateways" as part of the Grid Computing Environments (GCE) workshop at SC09. It is a paper co-authored by Roger Curry, myself and Rob Simmonds that compares several approaches for integrating social networking into scientific gateways. It highlights our experience using Facebook, Ning and Elgg in the development of GeoChronos.
Monday, October 26, 2009
CFP: PADS 2010 (Principles of Advanced and Distributed Simulation)
CALL FOR PAPERS - PADS 2010
*** Deadline January 8, 2010 ***
24th ACM/IEEE/SCS Workshop on
Principles of Advanced and Distributed Simulation
(PADS) 2010
http://www.pads-workshop.org/pads2010.html
May 17-19, 2010,
Atlanta, Georgia, USA
The Workshop on Principles of Advanced and Distributed Simulation (PADS), formerly called Parallel and Distributed Simulation, is soliciting papers in all aspects of simulation technology, expanding the traditional focus on parallel and distributed simulation methods and applications.
Specifically, the steering and program committees look forward to high-quality paper submissions in the following areas:
* The construction of simulation engines using advanced computer science technology.
* Techniques for constructing scalable simulations.
* Advanced modeling techniques that allow solution of previously difficult or impossible problem domains.
* Simulation visualization techniques.
* Algorithms and methods for parallel or distributed simulation, including synchronization, scheduling, memory management, and load balancing.
* Applications of large--scale or distributed simulation methods.
* Distributed interactive simulation and distributed virtual environments.
* Tools and techniques for interoperability of simulations; emulations of real systems.
* Mechanisms for efficient design of experiments.
Sponsors (approvals pending):
ACM Special Interest Group on Simulation (SIGSIM), IEEE Computer
Society Technical Committee on Simulation (IEEE-TCSIM), and Society
for Modeling and Simulation International (SCS).
Important Dates:
Paper manuscripts must be submitted no later than January 8, 2010. Electronic submission of postscript or PDF is highly encouraged, using the URL given below. Hard copy submissions are allowed, but six copies must be received by the program chair by the deadline. Notification of acceptance will be made by February 19, 2010. Camera ready copies must be submitted by March 23, 2010.
Submissions:
Papers must be unpublished and must not be submitted for publication elsewhere. Each submission must be accompanied by the following information: a short abstract, a complete list of authors and their affiliations, a contact person for correspondence, post and email addresses. Papers must be written in English and should not exceed 10 pages using IEEE Formatting Guidelines (the final versions of accepted papers would be limited to 8 pages, with option to buy additional pages). All submissions will be reviewed using a double-blind review process, i.e., the identity of authors and referees will not be revealed to each other. To ensure blind reviewing, authors' names and affiliations should not appear in the paper, and bibliographic references should be suitably modified.
Selected articles from PADS 2010 will be considered for extension and publication within a Special Issue of SCS Simulation.
General Chairs:
Richard Fujimoto, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
George Riley, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
Program Chairs:
Rob Simmonds, University of Calgary, Canada
Francesco Quaglia, University of Rome, Italy
Publicity Chair:
Helen Karatza, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Steering Committee:
S. J.Turner (Chair), Nanyang Tech.Univ.,Singapore
A. S. Elmaghraby (IEEE), Univ. of Louisville, USA
J. Liu, Florida International Univ., USA
K. S.Perumalla, Oak Ridge National Lab., USA
F. Quaglia, Univ. of Rome, Italy
G. F. Riley (ACM), Georgia Inst. of Tech., USA\
B. W. Unger (SCS), Univ. of Calgary, Canada
R. M. Fujimoto (Honorary), Georgia Inst. of Tech., USA
Program Committee:
D. Bauer, High Perf. Technologies, Inc., USA
A. Boukerche, Univ. of Ottawa, Canada
A. Bruzzone, University of Genoa, Italy
W. Cai, Nanyang Tech. Univ., Singapore
C. Carothers, Rensselaer Polytech. Inst., USA
L. Donatiello, Univ. of Bologna, Italy
D. Jefferson, Lawrence Livermore Nat. Lab, USA
H. Karatza, Aristotle University of Thesolonica, Greece
A. Lehmann, Univ. der Bundeswehr, Germany
M. Liljenstam, Ericsson Research, Sweden
J. Liu, Florida International Univ., USA
J. Luethi, FHS Kufstein Tirol, Austria
D. M. Nicol, Univ. of Illinois, USA
K. S.Perumalla, Oak Ridge National Lab, USA
P. F. Reynolds, Univ. of Virginia, USA
D. Roberts, Salford Univ., UK
S. J. E. Taylor, Brunel Univ., UK
Y. M. Teo, National Univ. of Singapore
G. Theodoropoulos, Birmingham Univ., UK
C. Tropper, McGill Univ., Canada
S. J. Turner, Nanyang Tech. Univ., Singapore
A. Uhrmacher, Univ. of Rostock, Germany
P. A. Wilsey, Univ. of Cincinnati, USA
*** Deadline January 8, 2010 ***
24th ACM/IEEE/SCS Workshop on
Principles of Advanced and Distributed Simulation
(PADS) 2010
http://www.pads-workshop.org/pads2010.html
May 17-19, 2010,
Atlanta, Georgia, USA
The Workshop on Principles of Advanced and Distributed Simulation (PADS), formerly called Parallel and Distributed Simulation, is soliciting papers in all aspects of simulation technology, expanding the traditional focus on parallel and distributed simulation methods and applications.
Specifically, the steering and program committees look forward to high-quality paper submissions in the following areas:
* The construction of simulation engines using advanced computer science technology.
* Techniques for constructing scalable simulations.
* Advanced modeling techniques that allow solution of previously difficult or impossible problem domains.
* Simulation visualization techniques.
* Algorithms and methods for parallel or distributed simulation, including synchronization, scheduling, memory management, and load balancing.
* Applications of large--scale or distributed simulation methods.
* Distributed interactive simulation and distributed virtual environments.
* Tools and techniques for interoperability of simulations; emulations of real systems.
* Mechanisms for efficient design of experiments.
Sponsors (approvals pending):
ACM Special Interest Group on Simulation (SIGSIM), IEEE Computer
Society Technical Committee on Simulation (IEEE-TCSIM), and Society
for Modeling and Simulation International (SCS).
Important Dates:
Paper manuscripts must be submitted no later than January 8, 2010. Electronic submission of postscript or PDF is highly encouraged, using the URL given below. Hard copy submissions are allowed, but six copies must be received by the program chair by the deadline. Notification of acceptance will be made by February 19, 2010. Camera ready copies must be submitted by March 23, 2010.
Submissions:
Papers must be unpublished and must not be submitted for publication elsewhere. Each submission must be accompanied by the following information: a short abstract, a complete list of authors and their affiliations, a contact person for correspondence, post and email addresses. Papers must be written in English and should not exceed 10 pages using IEEE Formatting Guidelines (the final versions of accepted papers would be limited to 8 pages, with option to buy additional pages). All submissions will be reviewed using a double-blind review process, i.e., the identity of authors and referees will not be revealed to each other. To ensure blind reviewing, authors' names and affiliations should not appear in the paper, and bibliographic references should be suitably modified.
Selected articles from PADS 2010 will be considered for extension and publication within a Special Issue of SCS Simulation.
General Chairs:
Richard Fujimoto, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
George Riley, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
Program Chairs:
Rob Simmonds, University of Calgary, Canada
Francesco Quaglia, University of Rome, Italy
Publicity Chair:
Helen Karatza, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
------------------------------
Steering Committee:
S. J.Turner (Chair), Nanyang Tech.Univ.,Singapore
A. S. Elmaghraby (IEEE), Univ. of Louisville, USA
J. Liu, Florida International Univ., USA
K. S.Perumalla, Oak Ridge National Lab., USA
F. Quaglia, Univ. of Rome, Italy
G. F. Riley (ACM), Georgia Inst. of Tech., USA\
B. W. Unger (SCS), Univ. of Calgary, Canada
R. M. Fujimoto (Honorary), Georgia Inst. of Tech., USA
Program Committee:
D. Bauer, High Perf. Technologies, Inc., USA
A. Boukerche, Univ. of Ottawa, Canada
A. Bruzzone, University of Genoa, Italy
W. Cai, Nanyang Tech. Univ., Singapore
C. Carothers, Rensselaer Polytech. Inst., USA
L. Donatiello, Univ. of Bologna, Italy
D. Jefferson, Lawrence Livermore Nat. Lab, USA
H. Karatza, Aristotle University of Thesolonica, Greece
A. Lehmann, Univ. der Bundeswehr, Germany
M. Liljenstam, Ericsson Research, Sweden
J. Liu, Florida International Univ., USA
J. Luethi, FHS Kufstein Tirol, Austria
D. M. Nicol, Univ. of Illinois, USA
K. S.Perumalla, Oak Ridge National Lab, USA
P. F. Reynolds, Univ. of Virginia, USA
D. Roberts, Salford Univ., UK
S. J. E. Taylor, Brunel Univ., UK
Y. M. Teo, National Univ. of Singapore
G. Theodoropoulos, Birmingham Univ., UK
C. Tropper, McGill Univ., Canada
S. J. Turner, Nanyang Tech. Univ., Singapore
A. Uhrmacher, Univ. of Rostock, Germany
P. A. Wilsey, Univ. of Cincinnati, USA
Wednesday, October 14, 2009
Slides from GeoChronos Demonstration at CANARIE NEP Showcase Reception at #banff #summit09 #ogf27
Presentation shown as part of the GeoChronos Demonstration at the CANARIE NEP Showcase Dinner Reception at Summit 09 in Banff on Oct. 14, 2009.
Slides from my presentation in the New Frontiers in Data Integration session at #banff #summit09 #ogf27
Presentation I gave as part of the New Frontiers in Data Integration session at Summit 09 in Banff on Oct. 14, 2009. It discusses some current work that the Grid Research Centre is doing in relation to data management and integration.
Tuesday, October 13, 2009
Slides from Cloud Challenge Demonstration at #banff #summit09 #ogf27
Presentation I gave as part of a demonstration highlighting cloud computing and social networking efforts of the Grid Research Centre at the Cloud Challenge at Summit 09 in Banff on October 13, 2009.
Wednesday, October 7, 2009
Schedule of GRC Presentations/Demonstrations at Summit 09
I will be giving several presentations/demonstrations on behalf of the Grid Research Centre (GRC) at Summit 09 in Banff from Oct. 12 - Oct. 16, 2009. Below is the schedule. Please come check them out if you will be at Summit 09!
- 6:30p.m., Tuesday Oct. 13, 2009 - Dynamic Provisioning of Service Environments with ASPEN as part of the Summit 09 Cloud Challenge
- I will demonstrate a cloud-based infrastructure for dynamically provisioning virtualized resources called the Automated Service Provisioning ENvironment (ASPEN) , which we developed at the GRC in collaboration with HP Labs. I will showcase two different dynamically provisioned service environments that we are hosting in an ASPEN instance running on the HP Labs Data Centre at the University of Calgary. One is a comprehensive user environment for the Fire Dynamics Simulator (FDS) that allows users to upload and edit input files, submit simulations, interactively visualize results and share results via a Facebook based interface. The other, developed as part of a Cybera funded pilot project, is a graphical rendering environment built on top of the Elgg open source social network platform that enables users to render and share animations/movies. Virtual resources running the services for these environments are dynamically provisioned/reclaimed based on user demand.
- I will demonstrate a cloud-based infrastructure for dynamically provisioning virtualized resources called the Automated Service Provisioning ENvironment (ASPEN) , which we developed at the GRC in collaboration with HP Labs. I will showcase two different dynamically provisioned service environments that we are hosting in an ASPEN instance running on the HP Labs Data Centre at the University of Calgary. One is a comprehensive user environment for the Fire Dynamics Simulator (FDS) that allows users to upload and edit input files, submit simulations, interactively visualize results and share results via a Facebook based interface. The other, developed as part of a Cybera funded pilot project, is a graphical rendering environment built on top of the Elgg open source social network platform that enables users to render and share animations/movies. Virtual resources running the services for these environments are dynamically provisioned/reclaimed based on user demand.
- 10:30a.m., Wednesday Oct. 14, 2009 - Integration and Management of Diverse Environmental Data Sets as part of the New Frontiers in Data Integration Session
- I will give a presentation discussing some projects that the GRC is working on that involve managing and integrating a variety of environmental data sets. I will discuss the use of Semantic Web technologies such as the Resource Description Framework (RDF) for linking and mapping data and associated metadata and also provide some demonstrations of initial prototypes we have developed.
- I will give a presentation discussing some projects that the GRC is working on that involve managing and integrating a variety of environmental data sets. I will discuss the use of Semantic Web technologies such as the Resource Description Framework (RDF) for linking and mapping data and associated metadata and also provide some demonstrations of initial prototypes we have developed.
- 6:00p.m., Wednesday Oct. 14, 2009 - GeoChronos: An On-line Collaborative Environment for Earth Observation Scientists as part of the CANARIE Network Enabled Platforms Exhibition
- We will demonstrate a platform called GeoChronos that we are developing as part of a CANARIE funded Network Enabled Platforms (NEP) project. It is an on-line platform leveraging social networking, cloud computing and Semantic Web technologies that is aimed at enabling earth observation scientists to access and share scientific data and applications more easily and to collaborate more effectively.
Monday, October 5, 2009
GRC Partner in New Cybera Pilot Project Initiative: "Cloud Services for Water Management"
The Grid Research Centre (GRC) is partnering with Cybera, Alberta WaterSMART and Tesera Systems Inc. in a new Cybera pilot project called "Cloud Services for Water Management". The pilot project will explore new ways for integrating Alberta-based water data and other types of data and will explore the use of cloud computing services in managing, processing and visualizing such data. A full media release can be found at http://www.cybera.ca/cybera-joins-collaborative-alberta-water-initiative.
Thursday, October 1, 2009
CFP: SIMUTools 2010 (3rd International ICST Conference on Simulation Tools and Techniques)
The call for papers for the 3rd International ICST Conference on Simulation Tools and Techniques (SIMUTools 2010), of which I am a member of the technical program committee, is available here.
SIMUTools will be held in Torremolinos, Malaga, Spain from March 15-19, 2010.
Important Dates:
Abstract submission : October 12, 2009
Paper submission : October 19, 2009
Poster submission : December 10, 2009
Tentative rebuttal period : December 11, 2009 to January 9, 2010
Notification of acceptance : January 12, 2010
Camera-ready : February 1, 2010
Conference in Malaga : March 15-19, 2010
SIMUTools will be held in Torremolinos, Malaga, Spain from March 15-19, 2010.
Important Dates:
Abstract submission : October 12, 2009
Paper submission : October 19, 2009
Poster submission : December 10, 2009
Tentative rebuttal period : December 11, 2009 to January 9, 2010
Notification of acceptance : January 12, 2010
Camera-ready : February 1, 2010
Conference in Malaga : March 15-19, 2010
CFP: CCV 2010 (Annual International Academic Conference on Cloud Computing and Virtualization)
The call for papers for the Annual International Academic Conference on Cloud Computing and Virtualization (CCV 2010), of which I am a member of the technical program committee, can be found here. CCV 2010 will be held in Singapore on May 3-4, 2010.
Important Dates:
Abstract Submission: December 17th, 2009
Author Notification: January 25th, 2010
Final Paper Submission: March 8th, 2010
Important Dates:
Abstract Submission: December 17th, 2009
Author Notification: January 25th, 2010
Final Paper Submission: March 8th, 2010
Thursday, July 23, 2009
Cyberinfrastructure and its Role in Science
I recently gave a presentation entitled "Cyberinfrastrucutre and its Role in Science" at IAI International Wireless Sensor Networks Summer School held at the University of Alberta on July 6th, 2009. This presentation examines some of the challenges scientists face and describes various cyberinfrastructure technologies that help address these challenges. Example projects employing cyberinfrastructure technologies that we have worked on at the Grid Research Centre, including the GeoChronos project, are also presented.
Friday, June 26, 2009
GeoChronos Presentation/Demonstration given at SpecNet Workshop 2009.
I gave a presentation and demonstration of the GeoChronos platform at the SpecNet Workshop on June 22, 2009 in Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada as part of the 30th Canadian Symposium on Remote Sensing. GeoChronos is an on-line platform for earth observation scientists, being developed by the Grid Research Centre, that is aimed at promoting collaboration and sharing of data and applications. The project is being funded as part of the CANARIE Network Enabled Platforms (NEP) Program. SpecNet builds on the existing capabilities of the flux tower network (FLUXNET) by adding spectral measurements to existing flux tower sites at a range of ecosystems around the world. It is a contributing organization to the GeoChronos project.
Friday, May 22, 2009
An Assessment of Eucalyptus Version 1.4
With funding from Cybera, the Grid Research Centre recently conducted an investigation into version 1.4 of the open source Eucalyptus cloud computing platform. While limitations and deficiencies were found, Eucalyptus has many strengths including ease of installation and the Amazon EC2 based interface.
Furthermore, since the time of this investigation version 1.5 of Eucalyptus has been released, addressing some of the limitations/deficiencies that were found.
Also, the Eucalyptus team recently received $5.5 million dollars to form a start up (Eucalyptus Systems). With these developments Eucalyptus is well positioned as a competitor in the cloud computing market.
The following technical report summarizing the findings of our investigation is available here:
Tingxi Tan and Cameron Kiddle. An Assessment of Eucalyptus Version 1.4. Technical Report 2009-928-07, Department of Computer Science, University of Calgary, May 4, 2009.
Furthermore, since the time of this investigation version 1.5 of Eucalyptus has been released, addressing some of the limitations/deficiencies that were found.
Also, the Eucalyptus team recently received $5.5 million dollars to form a start up (Eucalyptus Systems). With these developments Eucalyptus is well positioned as a competitor in the cloud computing market.
The following technical report summarizing the findings of our investigation is available here:
Tingxi Tan and Cameron Kiddle. An Assessment of Eucalyptus Version 1.4. Technical Report 2009-928-07, Department of Computer Science, University of Calgary, May 4, 2009.
Tuesday, April 21, 2009
GeoChronos Presentation/Demonstration Given at CANARIE NEP-1 Synergy Workshop
One of the projects that the Grid Research Centre (GRC) is working on is GeoChronos (http://geochronos.org/), an on-line platform for earth observation scientists that facilitates collaboration, sharing of data and sharing of applications. It leverages social networking (Elgg) and cloud computing (ASPEN - another GRC project) technologies and is being funded as part of the CANARIE Network Enabled Platforms (NEP) Program.
Below is a presentation that a gave at the CANARIE NEP-1 Synergy Workshop in Winnipeg on April 21, 2009.
GeoChronos: An On-line Collaborative Platform for Earth Observation Scientists
Below is a presentation that a gave at the CANARIE NEP-1 Synergy Workshop in Winnipeg on April 21, 2009.
GeoChronos: An On-line Collaborative Platform for Earth Observation Scientists
View more presentations from Cameron Kiddle.
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)
Posts
