Report:APAC07 Driving eResearch

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[edit] GeoSciences

[edit] Hazards

EarthQuake

  • John Rundle, UC
  • US, NASA/DOE QuakeSim
    • Principal component analysis
    • QuakeSim - quakesim.jpl.nasa.gov
    • InSAR - Synthetic Apperture Radar Inferometery
    • pat.jpl.nasa.gov
  • QuakeSim - a component of iServo
    • ACES - APEC Cooperation on EarthQuake Simulation
    • Models the interseismic process
    • Federated sensor data sources, focusing on InSAR and GPS
    • QuakeTables Federated Database System - 500GB per day by 2014
    • UI integration with GeoFEST from a generated finite element mesh
    • GridSphere based - QuakeSim 2.0 portal released 6 months ago - quakesim.org
    • Classic Grid support, working with TeraGrid, NASA AMES for Columbia computer
    • iServo - International Solid Earth Research Virtual Observatory
      • realistic numerical simulations models for earthquake generation and cycles
      • collaboration
  • EarthQuake Simulation at ESSCC and future eResearch goalds
  • Dion Weatherley, Earth Systems Science Computational Centre, UQ
    • Escript - finite element PDE solver, via Python scripting, MPI and OMP parallelism constructed behind the scenes opaquely
    • Esys-Particle - Discrete Element partical simulator, Python scripting, hidden MPI behind the scenes
    • AuScope
    • ESSCC Earth Systems Science Computational Centre
    • GeoScience Software emphasising HPC computations
    • SGI Altix 3700 SuperComputer - i.iTF, 208 Intel Itanium 2 CPUs
    • NCRIS 5.13 Capability AuScope
      • AuScope Simulation and Modelling WG, integration into grid
    • InSAR deformation data sharing across pacific
    • AuScope and iGEON working together
  • AuScope - Intgrating Information, HPC and organisation for Earth Science innovation
    • Robert Woodcock's role, enabling Grid and eResearch infrastructure for GeoSciences
    • Investment into developing an infrastructure system - takes a systemic view, with sustainability in mind, seen as a 1 time special deal
    • deals with policy, personnel, and other aspects of capability
    • crossing state, economic, and organisational boundaries
    • GEON has standards and development in data types and components that SEEGrid and AuScope could gain value from

[edit] Bioinformatics

  • Prof Matthew Bellgard, Centre for Comparative Genomics
  • Trends impacting Bioinformatics on the Grid
  • -omics
    • Growth
    • Systems biology
  • web 2.0
  • commercial activities