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D2I: The Open Gateway Computing Environment: Experiences Developing Tools for Scientific Communities in the Apache Software Foundation
Wednesday, March 7, 2012 - 4:00pm - 5:00pm
Innovation Center (IC) Room 105, 2719 E 10th St, Bloomington, IN
Marlon Pierce, Assistant Director, Science Gateways Group, Research Technologies Applications, Indiana University
Abstract: Science Gateways, such as the pioneering work the the Linked Environments for Atmospheric Discovery (LEAD) Portal, provide Web-based environments for scientists and students to perform computational experiments online via Web interfaces using Web services and computational workflows. The Open Gateway Computing Environments (OGCE) project is funded by the National Science Foundation to generalize gateway software so that it can be used across multiple science domains. OGCE software focuses on component-based Web collaborative environments and tools for advanced management of scientific applications (typically realized as workflows) on clusters, grids, and computational clouds (cyberinfrastructure). In this talk, we discuss the steps we have taken to close the loop with cyberinfrastructure software development, directly integrating end user communities and their requirements into our project. We present results for experimental biophysics, computational chemistry, and astronomy/astrophysics. Building on this, we discuss our efforts to go beyond open source software development to what we call "open community" development via participation in the Apache Software Foundation. We present our two incubator projects, Apache Rave (which provides an OpenSocial and W3C Widget compatible Web container) and Apache Airavata (which provides tools for managing scientific workflows) and discuss our early experiences.
Bio: Pierce is the Assistant Director for the Science Gateways Group in
Research Technologies Applications at Indiana University. Pierce
received his Ph.D. Florida State University (Physics) in 1998 in
computational condensed matter physics. His current research and
development work focuses on computational sciences with an emphasis on
Grid computing and computational Web portals. Prior to forming the
Science Gateway Group, Pierce served as assistant director for the
Community Grids Laboratory at Indiana University's Pervasive
Technologies Institute. Pierce supervises the research activities of
software engineering staff and Ph.D. students, and serves as principal
investigator on multiple federally-funded research projects. Pierce
leads research efforts in the following areas: the application of
service-oriented architectures and real-time streaming techniques to
geographical information systems and sensor networks; the development of
open source science Web portal software for accessing Grid computing
and data resources; and Grid-based distributed computing applications in
computational chemistry and material science, chemical informatics, and
geophysics. Archive of Talk. Sponsored by the Data to Insight Center.
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