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| Titel |
An infrastructure for the integration of geoscience instruments and sensors on the Grid |
| VerfasserIn |
R. Pugliese, M. Prica, G. Kourousias, A. Del Linz, A. Curri |
| Konferenz |
EGU General Assembly 2009
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| Sprache |
Englisch
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| Digitales Dokument |
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| Erschienen |
In: GRA - Volume 11 (2009) |
| Datensatznummer |
250029397
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| Zusammenfassung |
| The Grid, as a computing paradigm, has long been in the attention of both academia and
industry[1]. The distributed and expandable nature of its general architecture result to
scalability and more efficient utilisation of the computing infrastructures. The scientific
community, including that of geosciences, often handles problems with very high
requirements in data processing, transferring, and storing[2,3]. This has raised the interest on
Grid technologies but these are often viewed solely as an access gateway to HPC. Suitable
Grid infrastructures could provide the geoscience community with additional benefits like
those of sharing, remote access and control of scientific systems. These systems can
be scientific instruments, sensors, robots, cameras and any other device used in
geosciences. The solution for practical, general, and feasible Grid-enabling of such devices
requires non-intrusive extensions on core parts of the current Grid architecture. We
propose an extended version of an architecture[4] that can serve as the solution to the
problem. The solution we propose is called Grid Instrument Element (IE) [5]. It
is an addition to the existing core Grid parts; the Computing Element (CE) and
the Storage Element (SE) that serve the purposes that their name suggests. The
IE that we will be referring to, and the related technologies have been developed
in the EU project on the Deployment of Remote Instrumentation Infrastructure
(DORII1). In DORII, partners of various scientific communities including those of
Earthquake, Environmental science, and Experimental science, have adopted the
technology of the Instrument Element in order to integrate to the Grid their devices. The
Oceanographic and coastal observation and modelling Mediterranean Ocean Observing
Network (OGS2), a DORII partner, is in the process of deploying the above mentioned
Grid technologies on two types of observational modules: Argo profiling floats and
a novel Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV). In this paper i) we define the
need for integration of instrumentation in the Grid, ii) we introduce the solution of
the Instrument Element, iii) we demonstrate a suitable end-user web portal for
accessing Grid resources, iv) we describe from the Grid-technological point of view the
process of the integration to the Grid of two advanced environmental monitoring
devices.
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1 The DORII project is supported by the European Commission within the 7th
Framework Programme (FP7/2007-2013) under grant agreement no. RI-213110. URL:
http://www.dorii.eu
2 Istituto Nazionale di Oceanografia e di Geofisica Sperimentale. URL: http://www.ogs.trieste.it |
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