Presentation I gave at Cybera Summit 2010 in Banff, AB (September 21 - 22, 2010). Discusses different Web 2.0 / social networking technologies that can enable collaborative science and example uses of these technologies as part of collaborative science portals/gateways. Examples include a few projects that the Grid Research Centre at the University of Calgary is involved in including: GeoChronos, CyberSKA and WaterCloud - all of these projects make use of the Elgg open source social networking platform.
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Monday, October 18, 2010
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
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.
Wednesday, October 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.
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, 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.
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